A man is in hospital with life threatening injuries after a crane collapsed on to a ship at a container port. According to the coastguard, the crane toppled on to the ship Nyke Themis and the injured man, thought to be in his 30s, suffered crushed legs as a result of the accident and was being treated at Southampton hospital.
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You’re driving down the road behind a long queue of traffic.. it’s moving at a snail’s pace; it may as well not be moving at all! You suddenly see a gap in oncoming traffic and decide it is safe to proceed and overtake the slow cars. You’re past a few when, suddenly, without warning, one of them turns right straight into your path and smash; the vehicles collide!

You think to yourself that the other vehicle should have checked his/her side mirrors and their blind spot before pulling out. But, who’s to blame in this road traffic accident scenario as far as the Law is concerned?
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Where a loved one has been involved in an accident which has led to their death, it is likely that compensation and damages will be the last thing on the minds of those who cared about them. However, where the deceased left behind people that they looked after, supported or were dependent on them, then those dependents may be able to claim damages.

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As discussed in the previous post about accident at work regulations, there are some really helpful Work Regulations which can be used to win your injury claim if you have had an accident in the workplace.

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When an individual has suffered through medical negligence it can be a very traumatic time. People place a lot of trust in doctors and medical practitioners and naturally when it comes to health issues are more often than not keen to take the advice and recommendations of a qualified medical professional.

This can make it all the more difficult to cope when such a professional falls below the standard of care that they are expected to provide to their patients.

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Regulations 5 of The Workplace (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1992 is really helpful Regulation in many accident at work claims that we run. So, you may ask what is Regulation 5? What does it relate to and what significance does it have to me?

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Certain individuals are not deemed under law to have the ability to bring or defend a claim in the court by themselves. This applies to two categories of person: children and protected parties.

• A child is defined as any person under the age of 18
• Under the Mental Capacity Act 2005 a protected party means a party, or an intended party, who lacks capacity to conduct the proceedings

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So your travelling along a small bendy road, driving appropriately for the conditions, when you turn a sharp bend and “BANG” you crash into a parked car.

How could you hit a stationary car you ask yourself? It wasn’t even moving!

Well, in your defence the parked was just carelessly ‘dumped’ smack bang on the bend and you have to be rather careless to park a car on a road bend where drivers coming around the bend cannot see the vehicle till the last minute.
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Tomorrow signals the start of the Ashes series. England take on Australia at Cardiff in the first test in what promises to be an excellent and exciting sporting event played out over the next month or so. Unfortunately one sour note has been the death of cricketing umpire Alcwyn Jenkins this week. Mr Jenkins was hit on the head by a cricket ball and collapsed while umpiring a league match between Swansea and Llangennech in Swansea.

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Imagine your having a bad day… your running late for work, you hit traffic and every red traffic light on your route, and then just as you are about to pull into the car park, BANG WALLOP some clumsy driver smashes straight into the back of your car. Youv’e been injured and your pride and joy is a mangled mess, then to top it all, you find out the other driver doesn’t have insurance! You think it can’t get any worse and errrr, actually you just might be right.

In fact it gets a little better because we tell you about the MIB, no not the Men In Black, but the Motor Insurers Bureau…
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