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Roundabout Accidents – Are You in the Correct Lane?
There are many rules in the highway code which govern how you should circulate on a roundabout (including how to approach and exit a roundabout). Obviously, all the usual rules apply – check your mirrors, signal and manoeuvre. You should also decide early on which exit you wish to take and ensure you are in the correct lane (before entering the roundabout) for your intended route.
It is a MUST that when you are approaching a roundabout that you give way to road users to your right who are already established on the roundabout.
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Injuries Caused by Work Place Traffic Routes
Regulation 17 is an important Regulation when it comes to the day-to-day, practical running of any workplace à Regulation 17 of The Workplace (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1992 covers Traffic Routes!
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Keep Workplace Free From Obstructions
In the case of Burgess v Plymouth City Council the person making the claim against the Council was a cleaner for a School. The lady went into a classroom and tripped over a box used for storing lunch boxes and sustained an injury. The Local Authority (that’s her employer) disputed that they were responsible and therefore refused to offer her any compensation for her injury and other losses. Her employer argued that the cleaner ought to have been looking where she was going and it was her job to clean the classroom and that they had not breached any of the statutory duties (i.e. Workplace regulations).
Car accident claims at Low Speed (in Legal world we call these Low Velocity Collisions) LVC – Low Velocity collision, what is this? A common occurrence of this is when another driver drives into the back of your car when you are stationary. Well, lets not go into why they don’t actually slow down enough not to collide with you at all, and why they see you last minute, (despite the very fact that you are in a big highly visible car right under there nose and one would hope in front of there eyes) then slam the brakes on…. slow down to what they claim is a snails pace and hit you at very low speed.
Overtaking Vehicles That Turn Right
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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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.
Helpful Regulations for Accidents at Work!
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?
Hitting a parked car accident compensation claims
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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Claim Compensation When The Other Driver Doesn’t Have Insurance?
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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The Workplace Regulations are there to protect workers from accidents at work.
If you have an accident but are not a ‘worker’ then you are not likely to be able to claim under The Workplace Regulations but that doesn’t mean you can’t claim in another way. It just means that you can’t benefit from this excellent bunch of regulations.
