Compensation for Tesco Sliding Door Injury

Supermarket giant Tesco has settled a personal injury claim following the death of a pensioner who had, a few months earlier, suffered terrible injuries when she was caught in a sliding door at the company’s Long Row store in Nottingham.

Margaret Buxton, 84, was knocked to the floor and trapped in the supermarket’s sliding doors, which were thought to have had a faulty sensor. She was taken to hospital where she suffered a large blood clot and had to have skin grafts for her injuries.

Soon after the accident, Mrs Buxton became too frightened to leave the house and her condition deteriorated. The appearance of the skin grafts left her with mental scars. Her family said that she was badly shocked by the accident and never fully recovered. She lost all her ‘confidence and spark’.

A few months later, Mrs Buxton collapsed at her home and she died a few days later in hospital.

Mrs Buxton began a personal injury claim against Tesco before she died and her daughter then pursued it on her behalf. Eventually, the company admitted liability for the accident and agreed to pay the family an undisclosed sum in compensation.