Flintoff ...

  • Please bear with us on the new site integration and fixing any known bugs over the coming days. If you can not log in please try resetting your password and check your spam box. If you have tried these steps and are still struggling email [email protected] with your username/registered email address
  • Log in now to remove adverts - no adverts at all to registered members!
Smug in Boots said:
I'm not.

What I'm saying is that it's clearly a dangerous thing to do especially for someone who's not a professional driver.

If I go onto a building site I'd expect all safety aspects to be covered but that doesn't mean I can stroll on without safety boots and a hard hat, nor would I want to.

I've no knowledge of this incident and wouldn't watch the show if you've paid me so I've no idea who's fault the crash was tbh.



Im sure they did but there's a risk in every car journey tbh, it's a question of probability.

Eliminating the risk would mean not getting into the car in the first place, safety guaranteed. Football players can have their career ended on the pitch in any game ...

... that's the risk they take.
Click to expand...

I understand you can't completely remove risk, but I would assume a risk assessment for racing a open top car would identify that wearing a helmet would lower the risk of serious injury should the car have flipped.

We are having this debate on here and in all honesty the BBC might have paid him the cash as a "we feel bad payment" and there might have been a risk assessment and he might have been advised to wear a helmet we don't know.

In terms of health and safety these days you have to tell people everything to cover your own back. People can be thick and these days you get a nice payout when you are if your employer hasn't told you not to be thick!
 
  • Like
Reactions: rowley, rooch 3 and Smug in Boots
young2077 said:
I understand you can't completely remove risk, but I would assume a risk assessment for racing a open top car would identify that wearing a helmet would lower the risk of serious injury should the car have flipped.

We are having this debate on here and in all honesty the BBC might have paid him the cash as a "we feel bad payment" and there might have been a risk assessment and he might have been advised to wear a helmet we don't know.

In terms of health and safety these days you have to tell people everything to cover your own back. People can be thick and these days you get a nice payout when you are if your employer hasn't told you not to be thick!
Click to expand...

Good points.

I wonder if he had insurance to cover injury, loss of earnings, etc, in the event of an accident ...

... if not why not, it's negligent on his part if he didn't bother.

If he couldn't get insurance, there's your answer ... he shouldn't have driven the car at all.

And if he did have insurance why did the BBC have to pay.
 
  • Like
Reactions: gelders pie and young2077
Smug in Boots said:
Good points.

I wonder if he had insurance to cover injury, loss of earnings, etc, in the event of an accident ...

... if not why not, it's negligent on his part if he didn't bother.

If he couldn't get insurance, there's your answer ... he shouldn't have driven the car at all.

And if he did have insurance why did the BBC have to pay.
Click to expand...

Would insurance be covered by the BBC?

Depends if they he was down as Ltd company for some tax perks. Highly likely!
 
  • Like
Reactions: Smug in Boots
young2077 said:
Would insurance be covered by the BBC?

Depends if they he was down as Ltd company for some tax perks. Highly likely!
Click to expand...

Presume they would have had some kind of Liability cover particularly for every outdoor broadcast and specifically for such a programme as Top Gear.
 
  • Like
Reactions: young2077
Brainy Dose said:
Presume they would have had some kind of Liability cover particularly for every outdoor broadcast and specifically for such a programme as Top Gear.
Click to expand...

Yeah. You will probably find they have got millions in insurance money with the show being cancelled after the accident.
 
  • Like
Reactions: Brainy Dose
Ive never understood how Top Gear have getting away with it for so long. The programme totally encourages idiots to drive like ****s. I bet that bloke who filmed himself doing about 130mph losing control and killing that young mother and her unborn child and leaving 2 kids brain damaged is a huge fan of the show. He got his sentence increased from 12 to 15 years yesterday. He shouldnt be let out as far as im concerned.
To me its comparable to a tv show where b list celebs try different mind bending drugs, injecting themselves with all sorts and showing the after effects of them having a really good time going on all sorts of trips. A right hoot. Impressionable kids at home thinking it looks a right laugh and give it a go! However the programme doesnt show that years later Rylan's in rehab, Vanessa's septum has dissolved and that bird from Emmerdale is now HIV positive!
 
  • Like
Reactions: gelders pie, DH4, The Legendary Tongue and 3 others
Whole programme is a bit off to me like.

Blokes behaving like teenagers let loose with their dad's cars.

But they all play the macho part, so why any of them should pocket millions when it doesn't work is beyond me.
 
  • Like
Reactions: DH4
Comfy said:
All good points from the emergency services end but at the same time you don’t know which crash is gonna break your neck, what people are saying and you yourself is helmets do save lives and stop serious injuries.
Click to expand...
Agreed mate. Absolutely. But from speaking to my mates in the service, they all reckon, with the reports, that he’d have died with a crash helmet on. All conjecture of course as we’ll never know.
 
  • Like
Reactions: Comfy
marcusblackcat said:
Agreed mate. Absolutely. But from speaking to my mates in the service, they all reckon, with the reports, that he’d have died with a crash helmet on. All conjecture of course as we’ll never know.
Click to expand...

It all reminds me of when these 'explorers' go on a walk across the Arctic and say 'One wrong move and we could plummet into a crevasse and die' ...

... I don't admire them in the slightest, I just think 'Don't fukin go then you tosser'.
 
  • Like
Reactions: Canaletto, Robertson, Comfy and 2 others
Smug in Boots said:
It all reminds me of when these 'explorers' go on a walk across the Arctic and say 'One wrong move and we could plummet into a crevasse and die' ...

... I don't admire them in the slightest, I just think 'Don't fukin go then you tosser'.
Click to expand...
Yep. Or when some wildlife dud is 20m from a lion. “If he knows I’m here, then I’m done for” when there’s probably someone with a 12 gauge trained on it!
 
  • Like
Reactions: The Legendary Tongue, Smug in Boots and Wayne the Punk
Smug in Boots said:
Whoever would've guessed you'd be in danger camping in an area populated by huge predators <doh>

You must log in or register to see images
Click to expand...


I remember that, the safety precautions that should have been carried out just were not, quite shocking really
 
Smug in Boots said:
It all reminds me of when these 'explorers' go on a walk across the Arctic and say 'One wrong move and we could plummet into a crevasse and die' ...

... I don't admire them in the slightest, I just think 'Don't fukin go then you tosser'.
Click to expand...
I’m actually laughing at that cause those were the exact words that was said on one of the episodes when they were in the arctic, :emoticon-0102-bigsm:emoticon-0102-bigsm:emoticon-0102-bigsm
 
  • Like
Reactions: The Legendary Tongue and Smug in Boots
You must log in or register to reply here.
Top Bottom
Back