When considering making a claim it is often confusing when deciding who was at fault, especially in cases involving children. As a motorist you owe a duty of care to pedestrians, as they are extremely vunerable to road users. Pedestrians also owe a duty of care to motorists. It is there duty to show consideration and care to other motorists when crossing the road.

However some pedestrians require additional care, this may be due to disability, infirmity or age. The most obvious pedestrian that needs extra care and consideration is a child. Now that the new school year has begun, there will be more children on the roads during rush hour, both morning and evening.

Children, especially those aged under ten years of age don’t have a full understanding of danger. Therefore they won’t necessary think to look once, never mind twice before crossing a road, or stop to think before running out from behind a parked vehicle.
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When we all first began learning to drive I’m assuming it’s fair to say that we found it difficult remembering everything we had to do before actually driving off.

We’d get in the car, adjust our seat, adjust our rear-view and wing-mirrors and make sure the car was in neutral. We’d then put on our seatbelt, check both mirrors and our blind spot before hitting the road.

The best thing about it was that if we did forget something, we’d have our good old driving instructor sat at the side of us waiting to tell us what we’d done wrong. A habit of mine was forgetting to check my wing-mirrors, or to actually put the car in gear.
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A baseball fan was rushed to hospital after a bat was thrown into the crowd hitting them on the head. For one teenage baseball follower a great view proved too close for comfort when a player let go of his bat during a stroke, striking a teenage boy on the head. He was treated for head injuries before been carried off by paramedics in a stretcher.

However he received applause from the crowd after he managed to give thumbs up saying he was ok, as he was stretchered away.

The 13-year-old was a spectator at a national league match between the San Francisco Giants and the Arizona Diamondbacks when Buster Posey made the error.
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The AA calls for the council to reconsider turning off street lights in an urge to prevent traffic accidents and street crime. This comes after councils have revealed plans to turn off street lights in selected areas to cut bills. MP’s and Road Safety campaigners warned that lives could be put at risk by the council turning off tens of thousands of street lights.

Louise Ellman, chairman of the Commons Transport committee, also questioned the plans, warning it could damage attempts to cut the death toll on Britain’s roads, particularly at night.

She told the Daily Mail: “I am extremely concerned that financial pressures are leading to steps which can jeopardise people’s lives and increase the number of injuries. We’ve made great progress in recent years in reducing the number of deaths and injuries on our roads. It would be tragic if, by switching the lights off, that progress was to be put back many years.”
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Imagine being sat in your living room when a bus comes speeding down your front lawn and stops inches away from your window. That’s exactly what happened to 85-year-old Lily Mulkeen. She was sat in her favourite chair, eating her porridge when the ten ton vehicle careered off the road straight into her front garden.

The number 32 service demolished her hedge, flattened her garden and stopped just two inches from the wall of her two bed semi in Torquay, Devon.

Lily, who is housebound with arthritis, was sat in front of the TV eating her breakfast when the incident happened.
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A British holiday maker has died after a drunken prank at his hotel went horribly wrong. Keven Louis, the 27-year-old Brit, plunged more than 300ft after losing his grip as he hung off his fifth floor balcony. The incident happened at 7.40am after a boozy night out in the Majorcan clubbing resort, Magaluf.  

According to police Mr Louis had asked his friends to count how long he could hold on for. Mr Louis, who was born in Blackburn, Lancashire was on holiday in the resort with four friends when he attempted the stunt.

A witness to Sunday’s 7.40am incident said: “It all happened so quickly. He clambered over his balcony and only held on for a few seconds before he dropped. He fell head-first like a lead weight and smashed on to a concrete ramp leading down to an underground car park next to his hotel garden.”
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A 26-year-old Briton has been paralysed from the neck down, nearly blinded and left stranded in Thailand. Tom Moss, 26, has been left unable to move from the neck down as his moped collided with a lorry and two cars in the resort of Chiang Mai. The family of the 26-year-old have now been told that it will cost them £35,000 to get him back to the UK.

He is currently stuck in a hospital in Bangkok, while his family try to raise the £35,000. Mr Moss, a telesales worker, went out to Thailand and was set to travel for six months.

It is believed that Mr Moss came out here with a valid insurance certificate, however this is believed to have expired after he extended his stay.
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Jemma O’Sullivan, aged 22, an Irish citizen and final year pharmacy student at Sunderland University was travelling through South Yorkshire as a passenger in the car with her boyfriend when the collision happened. She was in the passenger seat of the Citroen Berlingo driven by her boyfriend Alan Godfrey, 27, also an Irish citizen.

Mr Godfrey remains in a serious condition at the Northern General Hospital in Sheffield. The horrific pile-up which involved two lorries, a van and a car happened at 3.45pm Friday Afternoon. The accident that resulted in the closure of the M18 caused traffic jams that lasted for more than six hours.

A 66-year-old lorry driver, from Rotherham, received serious leg injuries and is detained at Rotherham District General Hospital.
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When it comes to Injury Law and whether you are entitled to make compensation claims there is often a lot of confusion amongst the public. We often have people enquiring about a claim they want to make, but who are unsure about whether or not they have the right to do so, especially when it comes to accidents that involve emergency vehicles.

With accidents involving emergency vehicles it is the same procedure as any other as it is important to establish who was at fault, this will then tell you whether or not you are entitled to compensation.  Like all accidents there will always be a party who was the victim, here at Your lawyers we are here to help.

Although drivers of emergency vehicles are allowed to exceed the speed limit, or cut through traffic when need be, they also have a responsibility to exercise reasonable care to other road users whilst driving.  If they fail to do this, causing someone injury then that person may be entitled to claim compensation.
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Drivers are warned to expect hours of traffic misery as the new school year begins. Hours of endless traffic jams are expected to make today’s roads the busiest of the year. Information gathered by the road information service at Tom Tom revealed that holds ups are set to continue until the afternoon.

A report done by the Daily Mail says that on last year’s back to school Monday, there were 1,087 miles of delays across the country between 6am and 9am.

This is in comparison with the average 385 miles of congestion on the average Monday morning. The Daily Mirror report also says that last year there was 297 more road traffic accidents reported than on the average Monday.
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