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Air traffic controllers have been forced to change instructions to pilots after confusion led to two planes colliding while taxiing on to a runway in 2008.

According to the BBC, the pilot of the Boeing 737 involved in the accident, who drove this plane in to the tail of a passing plane, stated that he found the words “give way” confused him.

Following a report by the Air Accident Investigations Branch, Manchester Airport opted to withdraw the term from use to avoid any further confusion occurring.
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A damning report by the Air Accidents Investigations Branch (or AAIB) has found that safety work was not properly completed on a plane whose landing gear collapsed.

According to the BBC, the British Airways Avro 146 flight, which was carrying 67 passengers, filled with smoke as it landed in February 2009. The incident occurred at London City Airport and was the result of a fatigue crack in the landing gear.

Although records showed that improvement work had been undertaken on the plane by its manufacturer, it clearly had not been completed.
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The family of a woman who died after she was prescribed an overdose of morphine say they are “disgusted” that the pharmacist involved has been cleared to continue in his position.

According to the BBC, Catherine Rodger, 75, died of a heart attack within hours of taking her first pill.  She was usually prescribed 10 mg of morphine to help with her back pain but was given a prescription of 100 mg on this occasion, 10 times her normal dosage.

Damages were paid by the practitioner, a Dr Salahuddin Malik and the pharmacist, Mr Andrew Nixon. It was Mr Nixon who distributed the prescription and the Royal Pharmaceutical Society found that, although he should have realised the doctor’s error and they acknowledged that he had made a serious mistake, his fitness to continue to practice was not impaired.
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A study carried out by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine has revealed that a 20mph speed limit has cut road injuries by 40% in London! They are urging more UK cities to implement 20mph zones in a bid to reduce the number of serious injuries and deaths caused by road traffic incidents in the UK.

It is estimated that the 20mph zones could have the potential to prevent up to 700 casualties in London alone!

At the moment it is estimated that that one in five pedestrians are killed if hit by a motor vehicle at 30mph but at 20mph the chances are reduced to one in forty.
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I write further to my last post regarding the importance of altering your driving technique in order to take in to account the road conditions.

The recent tragic death of 19 year old Louisa Marshall whom was involved in road traffic accident on Bakewell Road, Matlock highlights the severity of just how dangerous our roads can become.

The young girl had been to Harvey’s wine bar with some friends following work and offered to give them all a lift home. There were 5 friends and she agreed to take 4 and then return to collect the fifth member of the group. She took them to a friend’s home in Darley Dale and it was on returning to Matlock to collect the fifth friend that she crashed in to a tree.
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If you are familiar with our blogs you will know that we keep you up to date with all aspects of personal injury claims and provide regular advice with how to make a claim. We also keep you updated with road safety as road traffic accidents are the most common cause of personal injuries.

How serious are our roads though and how much of a threat are they to us?

The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine carried out research on road traffic fatalities between 1971 and 2005. The results of their research is shocking to say the least, especially as they have revealed that approximately 590,500 people had been bereaved by a road traffic accident in that period of time!
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It is always difficult to read reports whereby young children have been affected by injury, especially when it is serious and life threatening.

A recent case was reported whereby a boy aged 6 years old has received a settlement figure of £1,320,000.00 after he suffered brain damage following a fall at his nursery in 2004.

The young boy, now known to be James Pitcher, was in the care of Headstart Nursery in Croyden, South London when he fell from a changing table.
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A council van which crashed in Northamptonshire, killing a worker, had had its brakes tested on several occasions, amid concerns that they were locking, an inquest has heard.

According to the BBC, Alan Heels, 19, reported the problem to mechanics on no less than three occasions before he was involved in a crash with a lorry in 2007.

The inquest heard that the van skidded and crashed when Mr Heels attempted to brake. The passenger in his vehicle a Mr Kieran O’Driscoll suffered multiple injuries in the crash and later died.
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A report by the NHS in to the number of patients leaving hospital malnourished shows that numbers have now risen to record levels.

According to the Guardian, the elderly are the group most at risk. Hospitals stand accused following the report of failing to ensure that patients eat properly and there are demands to improve the nutritional quality of the health service meals provided.

The figures state that last year, around 175,000 people entered hospital in a state of malnourishment but this increased to 185,500 in a similar condition on discharge. This raises obvious concerns as to whether patients are being provided with appropriate levels of care while in hospital. Based on these figures, over 10,000 people were more malnourished upon leaving hospital than entering, and this is having gone in for medical treatment which should have improved their condition.
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A 27-year-old parking warden was attacked by a driver who was angry about a parking ticket the warden’s colleague had previously issued.

The warden confirms that they had saw the man at around 3:30 in the afternoon on the 20 November and had issued the ticket to his vehicle which was illegally parked.

Later that afternoon the man pulled up at the side of his victim to have a rant about the ticket, the usual complaints which obviously would not have changed the warden’s mind about the ticket! After his complaint had got him no-were, he lashed out at the warden before driving away from the scene.
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