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| Author: | Guest [ Fri Oct 20, 2006 9:16 pm ] |
| Post subject: | latest tuk tuk rumour |
hope its not true. but one of the ph lads picked up a grandmother sometime this week of a lad who fell out of a tuc tuc. he is about 20 and is meant to be in a bad way. been sent to a specialist head inguries hospital. 
nothing in the press yet. by all accounts the family has been told by their solictor to keep quiet for the mo. i will get the forum represntatives to ask the police next week. bad news for the poor sod if its true though.
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| Author: | GMB Branch secretary [ Fri Oct 20, 2006 9:26 pm ] |
| Post subject: | tuk tuk update |
So we might have to meet the council leader sooner than arranged.keep me informed! |
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| Author: | Sussex [ Fri Oct 20, 2006 9:30 pm ] |
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Part of me hopes it's not true, cos I really don't want some poor mush in a bad way. But if it's the final nail in the tuk tuk coffin, then maybe it might just save someone else's life.
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| Author: | Alex [ Sat Oct 21, 2006 9:01 pm ] |
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I have e-mailed the operator of the Tuk Tuk service to see if it's true. Let's hope it's not. Alex |
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| Author: | Guest [ Sun Oct 29, 2006 12:47 pm ] |
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i take it alex no one has replied. the latest i know is thats its true. confirmed by the grans sister to one of my mates. chap is still in a bad way. was still in a coma last week.
the tuk tuk people are still denying it. but the police have confirmed it to one of 747474s bosses. by all accounts the chap got out or fell out of the tuk tuk and was hit by by a car coming the other way. i blame the tuk tuks.
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| Author: | Alex [ Sun Oct 29, 2006 8:45 pm ] |
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Cgull wrote: i take it alex no one has replied.
I e-mailed the chap, and he replied that he had no knowledge of any such incident. 
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| Author: | Guest [ Mon Oct 30, 2006 8:06 am ] |
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Man in hospital after falling from tuk-tuk A MAN is recovering from severe head injuries after falling out of a motorised rickshaw. Spencer Lowry, 22, was travelling in a tuk-tuk during the early hours of the morning when he is thought to have fallen out near the Charter Hotel in Kings Road, Brighton. He was then struck by a car. He was taken unconscious to Hurstwood Park Neurosciences Centre in Haywards Heath. continued... Yesterday, the hospital confirmed he had come out of his coma. Last night he was said to be in a stable condition. Some details of the incident on October 15 remain unclear but Dominic Ponniah, owner of Tuctuc Ltd which runs the rickshaw service in Brighton and Hove, yesterday confirmed Mr Lowry had fallen from one of his vehicles. He said: "Somebody did fall out of the tuk-tuk while they were being driven along the seafront. "From what I understand, there were three passengers inside." How the accident happened is still under investigation but Mr Ponniah said: "It is a real shame that somebody has got so badly injured and obviously we are very concerned about what happened. "The police had absolutely no problem with our safety when they arrived after the accident and it was not an issue to do with safety at all." Mr Ponniah added he was confident all his vehicles were safe and met national safety standards and that the vehicle in question was not faulty. The use of tuk-tuks in Brighton and Hove is already under the microscope and the result of a public inquiry looking into TucTuc Ltd's licensing arrangements is due this week. City Cabs, Streamline Brighton and Streamline Hove taxi companies complained the motorised rickshaws were flouting timetable and route regulations. Taxi drivers have also complained about safety issues surrounding the rickshaws. It is the second time since their launch in July that the rickshaws owned by TucTuc Ltd have been involved in an accident in Brighton. On September 16, a woman in her 20s was injured after one of the motorised rickshaws was collided with a stationary vehicle. She was taken to the Royal Sussex County Hospital with injuries to her arm. The tuk-tuk veered on Marine Drive, Brighton, after one of its tyres got a puncture. |
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| Author: | Guest [ Tue Oct 31, 2006 4:06 am ] |
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They tried rick shaws here a couple of years ago - huge hype the press etc and that ws about it - they vanished within a matter of weeks and nothing heard from them since. Then again we still have to contend with horse drawn carriages round here and they are far far more dangerous - jumping red lights etc - and have you ever known a horse to have a reg plate on its rear end for the camera's to catch? No but jump the lights to get out of the way of the same and you'll soon know about it! I'm sorry to hear of this guys injuries but from an outsiders point of view (and the kind of question that will be asked in relation to compensation in Court) would the outcome have been any different if the guy had stepped out of a car into the path of the same car? Tourist attractions this kind of vehicle may well be but the LO's should realise the damage that they do to our trade which is here all year round at all hours of the day or night. I wish that we could all afford to take 31st December off and see how these "alternate" vehicles cope for the night 
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