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Duke of Edinburgh’s Road Accident

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SirGawain · 17/01/2019 18:08

AIBU to ask why on earth is the Duke of Edinburgh driving at the age of 97.

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AlexaAmbidextra · 21/01/2019 19:07

If she’s expecting a large payout she’ll be disappointed. My father at 91 was run over by a van. And I mean run over. Tyre marks clearly visible across his upper leg. Miraculously, no bones broken but a lot of necrosis and skin loss resulting in three weeks in hospital and two lots of surgery including skin grafts. The driver admitted liability and was found guilty of driving without due care. My dad received £15,000 compensation.

TSSDNCOP · 21/01/2019 19:12

Where’s the other thread of which you speak?

NaturalBornWoman · 21/01/2019 19:13

My SIL was assaulted last year in a completely unprovoked attack. He had a brain injury and facial fractures, weeks in hospital and rehab, off work on sick pay for months and automatic loss of driving license for six months. The perpetrator was ordered to pay him £1500 compensation in £100 instalments.

Nicknacky · 21/01/2019 19:16

TSS The posters comments have since been deleted as have the journalists.

TSSDNCOP · 21/01/2019 19:48

Nick thanks, but I’m getting the gist that this lady isn’t as she seems.

marymarkle · 21/01/2019 19:55

I am wondering if Prince Philip is posting on here?
I really can't understand the nasty comments towards a woman who was a victim.
And the other driver had her baby in the car. She must have been terrified for her baby.

Peaspleaselouise · 21/01/2019 20:01

The thing that is suspect to me is that on TM she talked about how she wasn't assessed for the other injuries she is now suddenly declaring!

marymarkle · 21/01/2019 20:05

Depends what those injuries are.

NicolaStart · 21/01/2019 20:08

“He should be pursued for lack of seat-belt, and I know he's been spoken to, but it absolutely reasonable to report with a picture of him that shows no seatbelt, that can be done online.”

The whole seat belt thing has been set going by an Australian pap (I think) who took the picture. It doesn’t show whether he is even on a public road. Someone said it is by the Sandringham entrance, but that is up a driveway which is an estate road.

Someone from the Palace said he was hosting a shooting party for Andrew and friends, during which he presumably drives about on the estate. That’s what I see pheasant shooting parties do, anyway. Hence the mud and grass visible under the car: driving off road, on the vast estate, pheasant shooting.

But hey a PP was quite sure that mud and grass under a 4x4 designed for off road was because he had “already run something over” or had such bad eye sight he had accidentally veered off the road on to the verge.

And

BLUE SKY IS VISIBLE IN SOME OF THE ACCIDENT PHOTOS.

I am not a cap doffer, I am an anti-monarchy republican, but I like facts and evidence and objective fairness.

Bluelady · 21/01/2019 20:13

@NicolaStart, if you're looking for facts, evidence and fairness, I think this is the wrong issue for your search. Apparently you're a cap doffer unless you agree that the Royal family is the epitome of decadence and deserving only of contempt and bile.

samphireaidee · 21/01/2019 20:14

as i repeat for the 100th time: there was low sun at the time! it was a sunny afternoon . i was in the area/ passed the accident. either there was a sun in the sky or i saw a ball glowing light lol!

Aragog · 21/01/2019 20:15

She'd be facing financial hardship, that's why she sold her story.

TBH, like many of these sad face story participants in the red tops - I don't think it is really the financial hardship that has them heading to the press.

SillySallySingsSongs · 21/01/2019 20:18

I am wondering if Prince Philip is posting on here?

Yeah I'm sure thete is nothing a 97 year old married to the Queen would rather be doing. Hmm

Bluelady · 21/01/2019 20:31

Five minutes in the limelight is what she's after. Financial hardship my arse.

NicolaStart · 21/01/2019 20:45

BlueLady, you are right.
This whole topic has been a catalogue of ludicrousness.

Samphireaidee, how was the sun, again? I mean I know you were literally right there, literally, literally getting dazzled yourself, and there is literally blue sky actually showing in the actual photos but are you sure it wasn’t overcast?

Bluelady · 21/01/2019 20:46

😂

NicolaStart · 21/01/2019 20:53

Oooh, I do hope Philip IS posting here!

Far more thrilling than the DM etc.
Phil, if that is you, can I just say that despite being a lefty anti-monarchist (and don’t get me started in the Church in our constitution) I was glued to The Crown, and I think that despite your dreadful dodgy gaffes you should have been allowed to do a lot more to modernise the monarchy. Getting the coronation televised was a bit of a coup. Stuffy courtiers and Palace folk should have been quashed more. Also, if ‘retiring to Wood Farm for your health’ IS a euphemism as presumed by a PP on this topic, I hope it is terribly thrilling, and could we all retire to Wood Farm one day?

Justaboy · 21/01/2019 20:54

I've been there and done some work there in the distant past and it is quite an area or rather there is a lot of it which is off road but i think that now he's retired he's trying to enjoy his retirment away from being told what to do all the time by tthe offical duties and requirments placed on him in fact I do wish her Maj would adbicate for her and his sake shes done way way above what was ever expected of her.

And at his age he won't have a great deal of time to enjoy it. As to the driving there was a low sun around and that can be a sod if you suddenly go round a corner and get that rightf in the face perhaos this oncoming car was shelided bu a door pillar?, a moments misjudgment can happend to most anyone.

As to the seatbelt that could have easily bene on the private estate roads but he should be setting an example to anyone else but i bet the rebelious streak he has saw otherwise;!

samphireaidee · 21/01/2019 20:57

lol. nicola.

brizzledrizzle · 21/01/2019 20:58

He can be as arrogant and/or racist as it's possible to be. Neither has any relevance to this.

Being arrogant has every relevance if he thinks the need to stop driving due to advanced age/reaction times/lack of judgement don't apply to him because he's the D of E.

mydogisthebest · 21/01/2019 21:08

Mary, if he could not see because of the sun what do you think he should have done? Sit there until the sun went down? I know if he could not see if anything was coming he should not have pulled out but I am not sure what he should have done.

I would assume and hope he pulled out slowly so not quite sure how a Kia hitting him managed to topple his car.

I am really hoping that Lulu's allegations about this woman in the other thread are true and they are in at least one newspaper tomorrow.

This woman is a greedy liar

marymarkle · 21/01/2019 21:09

She is a carer, a low paid physical job. Of course not being able to work will cause her financial hardship.

marymarkle · 21/01/2019 21:09

mydog Use the visor, reposition the car, or yes wait.

HowDoesThisBloodyThingWork · 21/01/2019 21:12

The Duke of Edinburgh is a fine upstanding man who has devoted his life to serving the Monarch.

brizzledrizzle · 21/01/2019 21:13

if he could not see because of the sun what do you think he should have done?

Turn the other way and then turn round at a roundabout further down the road. As I said in a PP, at this time of year I take a different route home so I am driving with the sun behind me not in front of me. I can take one route home and then turn right towards home and have the sun behind me or take another route and turn left towards home with the sun right in my eyes. It's not safe so I take the other, longer route.