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My daughter received a nasty break to her finger as she trapped it between the door handle and dor jamb whilst closing the rear door of a taxi. We do not like the current 'claim culture' and did not claim for over 11 months as I thought the taxi driver would lose his no-claims and may not afford to work. We have now been told that he will not so I have filed a claim for my daughters pain and disfigurement.
If you have had similar experiences (and looking at past threads this has occured more than once) or even near misses that you are able to relate to me please let me know in this forum or by email directly to me. I would like Fiat to be informed to see if they couild modify the handles to prevent any more injuries.
Thank you
Dave
 
Sorry to hear about your daughter's injury. I think you should definitely claim.
It's a bit worrying as I have 4 kids. Do you know the age of the Doblo as Fiat seemed to have changed the handles on later models (06 onwards)?
I haven't had any injured passengers (I'm not a taxi driver) but I'm always having to explain how to open the doors.
People tend to try and press the red button from the inside and I have to tell them to pull the trigger, then they can't find it.
Some people seem to have problems opening the door from the outside too, which seems odd as there's only the one handle. Can't work that one out :confused:.
 
Mine's the 06 plate. Haven't had any problems with injuries, just people having no idea how to open or close the door "you have to squeeze the trigger" (pushes red button & really yanks the door) "no, squeeze the trigger inside the handle (aghain, pushes/pulls red button & tries to force door off its hinges) "no, it has a trigger inside the handle (pointing & waving finger frantically in direction of said trigger) which you must squeeze to release the catch"...

FIAT, if you are reading this.
The big red button should be the thing you press to release the catch.
 
I have never heard any reports of similar cases on doblos (or scudos for that matter) infact taxi's normally have lettering inside and outside on how to open/close the doors but I thought that was to assist drunks on a sat night and stop their doors getting broken?

Best wishes to your daughter from us all here (y)
 
sludgeguts said:
Mine's the 06 plate. Haven't had any problems with injuries, just people having no idea how to open or close the door "you have to squeeze the trigger" (pushes red button & really yanks the door) "no, squeeze the trigger inside the handle (aghain, pushes/pulls red button & tries to force door off its hinges) "no, it has a trigger inside the handle (pointing & waving finger frantically in direction of said trigger) which you must squeeze to release the catch"...

FIAT, if you are reading this.
The big red button should be the thing you press to release the catch.
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:ROFLMAO:

that's exactly how it goes with me, it's really frustrating.
 
Curlytail said:
My daughter received a nasty break to her finger as she trapped it between the door handle and dor jamb whilst closing the rear door of a taxi. We do not like the current 'claim culture' and did not claim for over 11 months as I thought the taxi driver would lose his no-claims and may not afford to work. We have now been told that he will not so I have filed a claim for my daughters pain and disfigurement.
If you have had similar experiences (and looking at past threads this has occured more than once) or even near misses that you are able to relate to me please let me know in this forum or by email directly to me. I would like Fiat to be informed to see if they couild modify the handles to prevent any more injuries.
Thank you
Dave
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Thanks for your replies. The vehicle had a 2006 model so it may have been just before any modifications took place.
 
Taxi rear sliding door.
I had an accident with a Fiat Doblo Sliding door on 5th December 2008.
I had to close the door myself. Taxi driver never got out of cab.
He just told me how close it.
I slid the door shut and unfortunately I got my middle finger jammed in the door.
I now have a fractured middle finger of my left hand. It has to be in a splint for 6 weeks.
 
RichDoblo120 said:
:ROFLMAO:

that's exactly how it goes with me, it's really frustrating.
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Remember, hold the butt of the gun tight into your shoulder...now squeeze the trigger gently...no, the trigger...no, that's just released the gun barrel for cleaning...squeeze the trigger.

How, in this day and age, can people not know what the F a trigger is? And where do we find triggers? Generally behind a handle.

Also, I'm interested to know how you can hold bits of your body between a heavy sliding door and the door frame?
When I close the door (from outside or inside) I have hold of the handle.
 
Used a high roof Doblo as a taxi for over 3 years, quite a few passenger hand/finger injuries in that time.

Most of the hand injuries were with people entering the back, placing their hand on the pillar between front and back doors, then the front passenger closing the door on their hand.

Had a few passenger hurt fingers closing the rear doors as above, none serious.
 
Curlytail said:
My daughter received a nasty break to her finger as she trapped it between the door handle and dor jamb whilst closing the rear door of a taxi. We do not like the current 'claim culture' and did not claim for over 11 months as I thought the taxi driver would lose his no-claims and may not afford to work. We have now been told that he will not so I have filed a claim for my daughters pain and disfigurement.
If you have had similar experiences (and looking at past threads this has occured more than once) or even near misses that you are able to relate to me please let me know in this forum or by email directly to me. I would like Fiat to be informed to see if they couild modify the handles to prevent any more injuries.
Thank you
Dave
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hi my name is greg lee and i have a doblo which i use as a taxi...my situation happened when a gentleman shut the sliding door on his pals finger causing a bad injury...i have since had a letter for a claim against me just at the time of renewal so lost all my no claims at this time ..i have since passed the information onto my insurer and am awaiting a reply...but i think this issue should be sent to fiat and resolved there because i think it is a design fault..
 
Just an update from teh original poster. I appreciate that there are claim chasers out there but my daughter only submitted her claim over a year after the accident and that was only after we had asked a friend taxi driver if the driver would have any increase in his insurance premium and he told us no as it would come off his public liability insurence.
I too believe that it is a design fault by Fiat and due to hearing of several injuries caused by the same thing I contacted VOSA the Governments vehcile safety agency so hopefully it would stop any more injuries. Not surprisingly they did not find Fiat at fault so i'm afraid there will be many more over the years.
I also contacted BBC Watchdog but have not heard anything yet.
 
greglee said:
hi my name is greg lee and i have a doblo which i use as a taxi...my situation happened when a gentleman shut the sliding door on his pals finger causing a bad injury...i have since had a letter for a claim against me just at the time of renewal so lost all my no claims at this time ..i have since passed the information onto my insurer and am awaiting a reply...but i think this issue should be sent to fiat and resolved there because i think it is a design fault..
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So why are you being chased for cash? this is negligence on the part of said bloke.
You stand there with your hand in the doorway, some idiot shuts the door on your hand yet the blame lies solely with the owner of the door??? (who was nowhere near nor had anything to do with the injuries.
How on earth do these people cope with revolving doors or automatic doors?


Remember, we've had sliding doors on vehicles for many, many years now without problem. See, in the good old days, people had a bit of gumption, a bit of savvy. They would look at said sliding door & immediately assess the potential for harm.
These days, society is generally gormless - but none of that matters because we can always blame/sue someone else.
 
Curlytail said:
Just an update from teh original poster. I appreciate that there are claim chasers out there but my daughter only submitted her claim over a year after the accident and that was only after we had asked a friend taxi driver if the driver would have any increase in his insurance premium and he told us no as it would come off his public liability insurence.
I too believe that it is a design fault by Fiat and due to hearing of several injuries caused by the same thing I contacted VOSA the Governments vehcile safety agency so hopefully it would stop any more injuries. Not surprisingly they did not find Fiat at fault so i'm afraid there will be many more over the years.
I also contacted BBC Watchdog but have not heard anything yet.
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Of course not, why is it Fiat's fault? Daughter close the door on her own finger (If I'm reading your OP correctly) & as with all the other injuries, they are all caused by someone's lack of due care.
The problem could have happened just as easily with an ordinary car, I've seen people getting out of the back seat of taxis, using the door pillar to pull themselves out - I cringe as I watch the front doors being shut by someone as they fail to notice fingers in doors.
As for design fault, the same system is in use on many, many vehicles as side-loading doors are popular with trades on transits & other small vans. The same sliding door system is also used on the kangoo, berlingo, astravan, etc etc etc
 
sludgeguts said:
Remember, we've had sliding doors on vehicles for many, many years now without problem. See, in the good old days, people had a bit of gumption, a bit of savvy. They would look at said sliding door & immediately assess the potential for harm.
These days, society is generally gormless - but none of that matters because we can always blame/sue someone else.
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:yeahthat: well said mr sludge(y)
 
We've never had any injuries resulting from the sliding doors on the Doblo.

But my friend couldn't work out how to open the door so I had to open it for him, I told him that the trigger below the RED BUTTON was to open the door but he still tried to open the door by pushing the button.

Can Fiat not put a sticker on the inside the car Saying "To Open Door Pull Trigger Below RED BUTTON and Slide Door Open"
 
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