 Re: A Branch Falls & Someone Dies
When people are invited beneath trees with paths, car parks etc there's a very strong onus on the property owner/lessee's duty of care for safety.
Only an investigation will show the cause. Many similar situations here, lucky no-one has been killed, if the owner has little in the way of tree surveys or regular checks in high value and target locations then if I were a lawyer I'd cook their asses.
Not too hard to zone up high risk areas, start with big trees, public places, carparks etc ... not rocket science.
Big trees fail. Old over mature trees fail. The consequences of such a lot worse than regular trees. As trees get older they dont get better or stronger, they all eventually enter the decline phase.
The inspection of such trees very costly, huge towers required etc. Inspect some 200'+ tree in a park or roadside carpark ... slow and costly.
The start of my thinking for locations like that is nothing below the drip line. |