“I’m Luke, I’m five and my Dad’s Bruce Lee…” That’s what song a Maltby lad will be singing, after he was sent to prison for stealing a JCB.

Gareth Twigg, aged 23, of Fraquhar road, Maltby, received a nine months jail sentence after he pleaded guilty at Warwick Crown.

Twigg, admitted he stole the digger from a construction site compound in Rugby, Warwickshire back in July. He also admitted to damaging the compound fence which he drove the digger though as well as dangerous driving. For which he was also banned for 18 months.
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Are you in a position to claim for a taxi accident? Well that can depend on a few simple factors:

• Did you contribute to the accident; if the answer to this is no, then potentially you may have a claim as the accident was not your fault and so why should you suffer at the expense of someone else’s actions?
• Where you in another vehicle; if you were in your own car and were involved in the accident and the taxi driver was at fault then you can make a claim for compensation against the taxi driver, your compensation will come from the insurance cover.
• Where you a passenger in the vehicle? You may worry that you can’t claim if you were a passenger but actually you will have quite a strong claim for compensation because usually as a passenger you do not contribute in any way to the cause of an accident. In the eyes of the law, passengers are often seen as innocent parties. Any compensation that is awarded to you will be claimed from the taxi driver’s insurance company.

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Incredible footage has been released on the Sky News website (Source) this week showing a car accident in Ohio, America in which the driver was seriously injured.

The accident happened on 23/08/2010 on Interstate 675 in Greene County Ohio when 19 year old driver, named as Brennan Eden, drove his Pontiac Firebird car at over 100mph causing him to lose control, hit the central reservation and then fly into a concrete pillar on an interstate bridge.
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Last week in the news (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-11083236), it has been reported that written complaints against the NHS has seen the biggest annual rise ever seen since records began 12 years ago.

Over 100,000 complaints were made in 2009/2010 and this was a 13.4% increase on the complaints made in the previous year.

On average, the annual increase in complaints per year from 1997/1998 has been 1.1%; so the rise seen this year is drastic.
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I’ve seen some unusual road accident stories in my time, and we at The Injury Lawyers are used to dealing with the quirkier accidents given our wealth of experience and huge amount of claims we take on and settle on a daily basis. But this terrifying story from the Daily Mail really is an unusual one…

According to the source, a double-decker bus was flipped over on a motorway after a crazed passenger grabbed the steering wheel and forced the bus off the road. Remarkably, no one was killed in the incident; however two of the twelve passengers were reportedly injured with one man being taken to hospital with suspected spinal injuries. The terrified passengers escaped the vehicle through a hatch in the roof.
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Robert Fletcher, was a healthy baby, when he was first given the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccination. He is now completely dependent upon his mother, and is unable to stand, talk or feed himself and frequently suffers from epileptic fits.

Mrs Fletcher has been fighting 13-years for compensation for her son’s illness. However the Department of Health denied any link between his illness and the controversial jab but a medical panel ruled against this last week.

This is thought to be the first compensation award granted for the MMR vaccine since 1998. Medical legal experts are now worried that this could open flood gates to thousands of compensation claims like this one. Leaving the public appaled by their reaction.
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A 33-year-old woman has been charged after a 10-year-old girl was savaged by two Rottweiler’s in Dundee.

According to a report from Sky News the 10-year-old girl was playing on her bike outside her Grandma’s house when the attack took place. Rhianna who suffered from a fractured jaw, injuries to her right arm and left leg and bite marks to her face needed three hours of plastic surgery to repair the damage.

A week before this attack the BBC News ran a report, and released CCTV footage of a woman’s guide dog being savaged by another dog at a railway station in north-west London.
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Have you ever questioned the reason why winding country roads welcome the national speed limit?

It’s as though they’re creating a play ground for young drivers, an open invitation to come along and test out their brand new ‘speed machines’.

What they don’t realise is that what often comes along with the national speed limit, especially on quiet country lanes, is a car full of teenagers looking for fun. However, this often ends in tragedy as some drivers misjudge the road.
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Everyone should feel that they and their loved ones are safe when at work, however the latest news that a contractor has died at the Corus Steel Works Plant in Scunthorpe puts doubt in our mind.

Barry Shaw, aged 53 was crushed between a lorry tractor and a trailer when working at the Steel Plant on 28 August.

This is the second death to take place within the Company in the past four months. It follows the death of Thomas Standerline, aged 26 who died whilst working at the Steel Works in Burton-Upon-Stather.
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A coach driver is hailed as a hero as he battled with a passenger who allegedly tried to grab the steering wheel of his double-decker coach. The Oxford tube service, which was carrying 12 passengers at the time flipped and spun off the motorway. The 21-year-old, whom witnesses said appeared drunk at the time, fled the scene but was later tracked down by police.

Emergency Services were called but by the time they appeared at the scene, all 12 passengers and the driver had managed to free themselves from the wreckage.

When speaking to the Telegraph an Oxford Tube spokesman said: “We can confirm that the police are investigating an incident which took place on board our Oxford to London service. “Ambulances attended the scene but thankfully none of the passengers or the driver was seriously injured. We would like to commend the driver for his brave actions in minimising what could have been a far more serious accident.”