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If, however, someone contends that the pipe always was covered, and uses photos taken of the changes after incident as evidence that the pipe always was covered, then you've opened the door to the other side pouncing on that.
The fact that they then tried to cover it up says a lot.
It’s such a shitty situation, one kid has lost his leg and I assume another person / couple will lose their livelihood. I just hope other tracks learn something.
Remember car racing tracks regularly had ditches and trees lining the track, it was considered part of the risk. However eventually people cottoned on to the fact that it doesn’t need to be so dangerous.
The 2 thinks that frustrate me about safety at motocross tracks is mixed practices with A class 450s and 80s. And shit on the side of the track.
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It's sad to see these things occurring, both from the side of the injured rider to the track potentially being put out of business. Obviously unsafe conditions created by the track owner brings to mind the playing of a game of Russian Roulette. It isn't going to have a good outcome.
Imagine being 14 and your whole life ahead of you and then being told you’ll never be able to run or play sports again. Might seem like nothing but imagine little things like stairs, getting in and out of cars, just pivoting around the garage, etc., and it will only get worse with age.
All it could’ve taken was somebody to look at this culvert and use a little common sense that at high speeds it could act as a knife. It’s sad to see so many people say that it’s “inherent risk” for motocross. Imagine if it was his head?Hell imagine if you brought your son somewhere, paid money to ride, and walked away with almost a million in medical bills because the owner of the track you just paid to ride cut corners on safety somewhere.
Motocross is dangerous enough..
The one thing I have noticed is that the payouts are massive in the US. They often seem way out of proportion.
If they had provided the signed waiver and not lied they probably would've had a $800k medical bill.
Pit Row
However if it was a private bike park, worksafe (Our government osh enforcer) could investigate and prosecute you for negligence if they deemed the pipe was dangerous and you leaving it uncovered was at least reckless ,
And on another note, the fact that some of you are covering for this shitbag is disgusting. This sack of crap put his fucking facility at risk. He did it. No one else. He didn't give a fuck about making sure his facility was safe for use. If he didn't care about the long term viability of his property why in the fuck are you blaming the kid who will forever suffer the consequenses of this selfish, greedy pile of human garbage. Fuckface ruined his riding place no one else.
By the way, dipshit was knocking down trees on an open riding day? And some of you jack offs can't see that the owners clearly don't give a fuck about their customers. There seems to be a fairly deep seeded "fuck them" attitude in the management of that place. This is a fucking pattern people.
Finally, l'm not a lawyer but l've dealt with a shit ton of them and there is never a waiver that will protect from willfull negligence. You can never indemnify yourself from your own self inflicted idiocy.
https://www.vitalmx.com/forums/Moto-Related,20/Sarah-whitmore,1353280
As far as tracks. This happens time and time again and nothing will change it beside better track safety. Just like OSHA. See a potential hazard and correct it and prevent these types of things from happening again.
Lots of folks disagree. And NF does nothing about business/contract/labor/ip litigation; that all will go on until the second coming because people rubbing elbows in life or business always will throw out honest disputes, some wackball fights, or crooks at play.
I would venture to say that this was the case here and in the case of Sarah Whitmore.
Then they would subrogate and attempt to recover their expenses from the at fault party.
The majority of the monies here are not medical expenses already incurred.
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