Pregnant woman loses claim after near fall in Dunnes
Alison Keenan, now 40, of Annamoe Drive, Cabra, Dublin, told the Circuit Civil Court that in Nov 2007 she had gone with her sister, Barbara, for a ‘girls’ day’ of breakfast and shopping at Dunnes’ Blanchardstown branch.
She said she had just collected a fry with coffee on a tray and was walking towards the cash desk when one of her feet went from under her. “I was conscious of the scalding coffee spilling over my tummy and made a twisting grab for a rail to save myself falling,” she told Judge Jacqueline Linnane.
She said the tray and its contents went up in the air and the coffee had spilled onto her thigh but she had succeeded in preventing a fall on to the ground.
Judge Linnane said there had been evidence the floor was perfectly safe when dry and dismissed her claim. Awarding costs against Ms Keenan, the judge said Dunnes could not be faulted on the day and no case for negligence had been established.
