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Heavy steel goalpost injures man in the Lake District – £41,500 awarded

A  man was badly injured when a metal goalpost fell on his head  and was awarded £41,500 in damages in the Court of Appeal. The man in his mid-forties  was playing football with his son at a caravan park in the Lake District when the goal framework fell forward and collapsed on him. He sustained serious injuries to his teeth and jaw. A claim against the owners and operators of the caravan park was initially dismissed but upon appeal the decision of the lower court was overturned. The Court heard that when the accident happened the goal was not properly pegged down. Campers regularly took the pegs from the goalposts to use as tent pegs. The judge decided that it would have been relatively easy for the operators of the caravan park to make a daily check on whether the pegs were in place or not. If this had been done, the absence of the pegs would have been discovered and the injuries avoided. Owners and controllers of land open to members of the public have a duty of care to ensure people’s safety.  REF: solicitors Edwards Duffie.   ITSA Goal have never manufactured or sold heavy steel goalposts and have been actively trying to ban such goalposts for over twenty years. We hope one day common sense will see heavy freestanding goalposts for children disappear completely.