Gore biker down (12 September)

[hospitalfood]

i think people should settle down. we don't know what happened. he may have died with a helmet on anyway and it may not be his fault.
also, his family may be reading.

lets get the details before we make a judgement

[Nasty]

erm ACC will pay upto 8 thousand for his funeral expenses i am sure that is the rate, might be less but i am sure that ACC payout to family on death towards costs.

as per the ACC web site they cover you for death,


What about injuries that cause death?
ACC provides financial cover when someone dies as a result of an accident, a work-related disease or infection, suicide or medical treatment.

If a member of your family is fatally injured, and ACC receives confirmation that the cause of death is a physical injury, we will work with you and/or your advisors and friends to work out what assistance is available.

Various payments are available, depending on your circumstances, to cover such things as funeral and childcare costs. Dependent partners and children may be eligible for weekly compensation.

ACC support applies regardless of life, funeral or other insurance policies that may also provide protection in the event of the death of a family member.

Has the support they offer gone up since Grub died? Cos if you are right we didn't get that amount of assistance for the funeral ... Also, I did not approach ACC the funeral director did - and then they contacted me regarding other assistance. The help they were able to offer ensured that I could still pay bills etc while working out my own way of doing things.

[YellowDog]

as hes already dead, theres not much to be gained by saying he may have done wrong. unless one of us was there and saw what happened, the truth shall never be known.

RIP rider.

Yep, it was 3.30am and he wasn't wearing a helmet.

Whether he was sober or not, it is still death by missadventure.

Someone will miss him.

[Forest]

Until more details are released, anything said here is merely speculation.

For all we know, a fence-paling went through his heart. A helmet wouldn't provide an ounce of protection against that sort of injury.

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Until more details are released, anything said here is merely speculation.

For all we know, a fence-paling went through his heart. A helmet wouldn't provide an ounce of protection against that sort of injury.

Yeah but cool kids wear lids

[Mom]

I am breaking one of my own cardinal rules here but....

I hate these threads! Leave off the lot of you. Someone died. The hows, and whys, and what ifs, the he/she should haves, the he did or didn'ts, the money his family may or may not receive, the cost to us and the reasons he was out at that time and what he was wearing are totally irrelevant!

Why this even was thought to be reason to bring it on the forum is beyond me frankly.

There was a fella killed on his bike up this way last night too by the way, not that far from where I live actually. Reading in the paper he was taken out by a car that was "racing" with another vehicle, shock, horror, probe.

What makes this forum discussed death any more or less tragic than the one that happened here 24 hours ago?

Revolting threads! Some of you should really be thinking about the reasons you post this crap on here. A person died in tragic circumstances. THE END.

[short-circuit]

I am breaking one of my own cardinal rules here but....

I hate these threads! Leave off the lot of you. Someone died. The hows, and whys, and what ifs, the he/she should haves, the he did or didn'ts, the money his family may or may not receive, the cost to us and the reasons he was out at that time and what he was wearing are totally irrelevant!

Why this even was thought to be reason to bring it on the forum is beyond me frankly.

There was a fella killed on his bike up this way last night too by the way, not that far from where I live actually. Reading in the paper he was taken out by a car that was "racing" with another vehicle, shock, horror, probe.

What makes this forum discussed death any more or less tragic than the one that happened here 24 hours ago?

Revolting threads! Some of you should really be thinking about the reasons you post this crap on here. A person died in tragic circumstances. THE END.

Well that's you lot told

[scumdog]

Well that's you lot told

Well you started it....

[boman]

erm ACC will pay upto 8 thousand for his funeral expenses i am sure that is the rate, might be less but i am sure that ACC payout to family on death towards costs.

as per the ACC web site they cover you for death,


What about injuries that cause death?
ACC provides financial cover when someone dies as a result of an accident, a work-related disease or infection, suicide or medical treatment.

If a member of your family is fatally injured, and ACC receives confirmation that the cause of death is a physical injury, we will work with you and/or your advisors and friends to work out what assistance is available.

Various payments are available, depending on your circumstances, to cover such things as funeral and childcare costs. Dependent partners and children may be eligible for weekly compensation.

ACC support applies regardless of life, funeral or other insurance policies that may also provide protection in the event of the death of a family member.

$5000,00. And yes they do pay out to support the family.

[MDR2]

erm ACC will pay upto 8 thousand for his funeral expenses i am sure that is the rate, might be less but i am sure that ACC payout to family on death towards costs.

as per the ACC web site they cover you for death,


What about injuries that cause death?
ACC provides financial cover when someone dies as a result of an accident, a work-related disease or infection, suicide or medical treatment.

If a member of your family is fatally injured, and ACC receives confirmation that the cause of death is a physical injury, we will work with you and/or your advisors and friends to work out what assistance is available.

Various payments are available, depending on your circumstances, to cover such things as funeral and childcare costs. Dependent partners and children may be eligible for weekly compensation.

ACC support applies regardless of life, funeral or other insurance policies that may also provide protection in the event of the death of a family member.

yeah your quite rigth about that actually, foolish of me , as far as on going care to the fallen though...