Pages On: Car Accidents
Car accidents are all too common. They are listed among the top causes of fatalities worldwide. Driving a car isn’t in itself very dangerous, however, when other drivers fail in their duty of care to you, they are considered liable, and you become entitled to compensation. As regulations in the UK have changed in this respect, we can only really help people who have been seriously injured in a car accident.
Girl awarded £6.65 million following tragic car crash
Posted: 4 April 2016
Posted in: Car Accidents, Head and Brain Injuries, Road Traffic Accidents, Spine & Back Injuries, Wrongful & Accidental Death
A young girl who was left disabled following a car crash in 2002 has been awarded £6.65 million in compensation. The child, one of four siblings, was travelling in a car driven by her mother when the accident took place. Tragically, her eldest sibling was killed and another sustained a brain injury. The other child was left with serious orthopaedic problems, and the claimant was left paraplegic due to severe and complete spinal cord injuries. At the time of the accident the claimant was a child. In fighting for her case, her lawyers considered…
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Man paralyses friend whilst drunk driving
Posted: 7 March 2016
Posted in: Car Accidents, Road Traffic Accidents, Spine & Back Injuries
A drunk driver, whose car went out of control in bad weather conditions and plunged down a gorge paralysing his friend, has been found guilty of dangerous driving. Robert Buzalski, Krysztof Birula and one other man were driving towards Edzell on 24 August 2013 when the crash took place on a farm road from Cornes Cottage to Dalbog Farm, near Edzell. Buzalski had been drinking vodka liqueur and was found to be driving with 124 miligrammes of alcohol against a legal limit of 80. Paralysed from the neck down since The 36-year-old of…
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Injured traffic officer wins compensation
Posted: 21 December 2015
Posted in: Car Accidents, Road Traffic Accidents
A traffic enforcement officer has been awarded compensation after a drunk driver put an end to his career four years ago. 43-year-old Colin Hickey had been patrolling the outside of St Bede’s School in South Shields in 2011 when a driver pinned him between his van and metal railings. Mr Hickey suffered severe personal injuries and and psychological damage in the accident. Following the crash it was discovered that the driver of the van had been more than twice over the drink-drive limit. He was charged for driving with excess…
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Pensioner wins £1m compensation following car accident
Posted: 1 December 2015
Posted in: Car Accidents, Head and Brain Injuries, Leg Injuries, Road Traffic Accidents
A pensioner who was left brain damaged following a car accident has been awarded £1m in compensation. 71-year-old James Laurie was hit by a Volvo nearby his house three years ago whilst he was recovering from a stroke. The accident left him with two broken legs, a head injury and severe brain damage. Mr Laurie now suffers with lapses in his memory, concentration and motivation, as well as a sight problem. The brain injuries were so severe that he has been unable to leave care since the accident. Three years…
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Suspended prison sentence following car crash
Posted: 20 October 2015
Posted in: Car Accidents, Head and Brain Injuries, Road Traffic Accidents
A man has been sentenced to a suspended prison sentence after his dangerous driving caused a car accident that left a teacher critically injured. 78-year-old John King pleaded not guilty to the sentence that his dangerous driving caused an accident, claiming that a medical condition resulted in his loss of consciousness during the approach to the roundabout where the accident happened. Despite pleading not guilty, the jury convicted him at Ipswich Crown Court in August and he was sentenced to a two year suspended prison sentence. The collision happened on…
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Over 300 drivers handed on-the-spot fines
Posted: 24 August 2015
Posted in: Car Accidents, Road Traffic Accidents
Since police were presented with new powers to hand out on-the-spot fines for careless driving two years ago, over 300 drivers have been fined in the Avon and Somerset region. The Association of Personal Injury Lawyers (APIL) gathered the figures through a Freedom of Information request, set to correspond with Injury Prevention Day, The non-profit organisation is currently campaigning to ban tailgating. August 2013 saw fixed fines of £100 being introduced for motoring offences such as hogging the middle lane and tailgating. Since this change was put in place, a…
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4 years for dangerous driver who killed schoolgirl
Posted: 21 April 2015
Posted in: Car Accidents, Leg Injuries, Road Traffic Accidents, Wrongful & Accidental Death
Robert Blackwell, 19, from Hayway Lane, Bampton, Oxfordshire, has been given a 4-year jail sentence after admitting dangerous driving resulting in the death of schoolgirl, Liberty Baker, 14, on 30 June. Blackwell’s car mounted the pavement, killing Liberty and injuring 2 of her friends as they walked to school in Witney, Oxfordshire. Blackwell admitted causing death by dangerous driving and inflicting serious injury by dangerous driving, and admitted to having smoked cannabis on the day before taking to the road. The incident took place in Curbridge Road and also involved Paul Cracknell who…
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Man in Ireland awarded £6m in compensation after car accident
Posted: 26 July 2014
Posted in: Car Accidents, Head and Brain Injuries, Road Traffic Accidents
A man in Northern Ireland is due to receive around £6million in compensation after he suffered life-changing injuries in a car accident. The 25-year-old – who cannot be named for legal reasons – sustained brain injuries and numerous broken bones in the accident. He had only been a passenger in the car when it swerved into a field in 2007. The driver of the car was jailed following the accident for causing injury through dangerous driving. The case has been noted as one of the largest cases of its kind, with damages only…
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Car driver survives 80ft cliff fall
Posted: 13 April 2014
Posted in: Car Accidents, Road Traffic Accidents
A motorist has survived an 80ft cliff fall after his car slid from the road and into the sea near Brighton. The man managed to free himself from the submerged vehicle and swam back to the rocks with only minor injuries. The 33-year-old said that he was lucky to have missed the Undercliff promenade during the fall, and instead landed on rocks in the sea. The driver of the vehicle had been driving on the A259 at Roedean at around midnight when the road traffic accident happened. The Newhaven Coastguard described the…
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Drivers urged to pledge ‘not a drop, not a drag’
Posted: 5 December 2012
Posted in: Car Accidents, Road Traffic Accidents
Road safety charity Brake has urged all drivers to commit to ‘not a drop, not a drag’ when driving this festive period. The call comes as the Association of Chief Police Officers launches its annual festive drink and drug driving enforcement campaign. During last year’s campaign, English and Welsh police forces stopped and tested 157,000 drivers, making 7,200 arrests. According to Brake, in 2011, one in seven road deaths in Great Britain involved drink drivers over the current 80mg limit. Around 280 deaths and 1,290 serious injuries occurred when someone…
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