DC Segway accident prompts NY woman to file lawsuit - WJLA

[JohnG]

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DC Segway accident prompts NY woman to file lawsuit
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But for New Yorker Jordana Casciano, the tour ended up being a monumental disaster. Casciano shattered her elbow and spent three days at George Washington University Hospital after a Segway accident. â??The scar goes from, like, about here to about here ...




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[KSagal]

Originally Posted by JohnG

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DC Segway accident prompts NY woman to file lawsuit
WJLA
But for New Yorker Jordana Casciano, the tour ended up being a monumental disaster. Casciano shattered her elbow and spent three days at George Washington University Hospital after a Segway accident. â??The scar goes from, like, about here to about here ...




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I wonder if she sued Ford after her car accident?

[JohnM]

Originally Posted by KSagal

I wonder if she sued Ford after her car accident?

She's suing the tour company, not the manufacturer.

Bad analogy anyway. You're old enough to remember the Pinto. Grimshaw v. Ford Motor Company

[KSagal]

Originally Posted by JohnM

She's suing the tour company, not the manufacturer.

Bad analogy anyway. You're old enough to remember the Pinto. Grimshaw v. Ford Motor Company

My easily understandable point is that she fell off the machine and said the machine did it. That is not a tour company responsibility, it is the manufacturers. And of course, it is not the point, or what happened, or accurate.

When people drive drunk, most do not blame all cars. When people have car accidents, they do not blame all cars. In both instances, most people seek to hold the operator responsible. Some do blame the car, but it rarely the car's fault, and even if you quote one case from decades ago, or even a dozen cases, they represent a tiny part of one percent of car accidents.

When anyone does anything on a segway, including scaring someone who was never even in the slightest danger of being run over, but they thought they were in their own ignorant head, many people seek to regulate or restrict segways, not segway operators.

In any given place, if a person goes too fast in a car, effort is given to finding and giving the operator a ticket.

In any given place, if a person goes too fast on a segway, effort is given to finding and passing legislation or rules restricting all segways.

In this case, a person fell from a segway. I do not know why. But she is saying it is because of the segway. And her lawsuit is saying that the tour company should have warned her better that her segway would drop her. No place does the article acknowledge what we all know. (The overwhelming majorities of accidents of this sort are operator error. The vastly overwhelming majority)

[nhuttruong111]

Originally Posted by KSagal

My easily understandable point is that she fell off the machine and said the machine did it. That is not a tour company responsibility, it is the manufacturers. And of course, it is not the point, or what happened, or accurate.

When people drive drunk, most do not blame all cars. When people have car accidents, they do not blame all cars. In both instances, most people seek to hold the operator responsible. Some do blame the car, but it rarely the car's fault, and even if you quote one case from decades ago, or even a dozen cases, they represent a tiny part of one percent of car accidents.

When anyone does anything on a segway, including scaring someone who was never even in the slightest danger of being run over, but they thought they were in their own ignorant head, many people seek to regulate or restrict segways, not segway operators.

In any given place, if a person goes too fast in a car, effort is given to finding and giving the operator a ticket.

In any given place, if a person goes too fast on a segway, effort is given to finding and passing legislation or rules restricting all segways.

In this case, a person fell from a segway. I do not know why. But she is saying it is because of the segway. And her lawsuit is saying that the tour company should have warned her better that her segway would drop her. No place does the article acknowledge what we all know. (The overwhelming majorities of accidents of this sort are operator error. The vastly overwhelming majority)

thank you so much