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Road Accidents: A General Guide
In the aim to prevent accidents upon our roads, it is both pedestrians and vehicles users that need to work together. This first became established back in the early 1800’s when the courts ruled that both parties owed one another a duty of care whilst on the roads.
Since the 1800’s there have been major advancements in vehicle technology. Very few people still travel around in carts pulled by horses. However the same principle still applies. If anything it requires that we take extra care on the roads of today, due to the amount of traffic congestion on them.
Accidents occur on our roads every day, in fact thousands take place every year. If you witness or become involved in a road traffic accident you may not know what to do next. When a traffic accidents takes place it is important that the situation is assessed accurately and that emergency services are called to the scene.
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Road Traffic Accidents: Hit and Run
As a driver it is essential that you give children the right of way when crossing roads, most of us do. However there are some occasions where children become injured when crossing the road. If this was to happen to us, then as the driver it would be our duty to then stop the car and follow the correct measures to make sure that child is safe.
However in some circumstances, drivers panic and flee the scene, this is known as hit and run. If you are subjected to a hit and run accident, whether you are a pedestrian and have been ran over or if someone runs into your vehicle and drives off you’re still entitled to compensation. It can seem like a confusing time as you don’t have any of the other party’s details to follow up. If you have a child who has been involved in such an accident then they have up until the age of 21 to make a claim.
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Last night’s drive home was not one of my favourites. I’ve only just started working outside of Sheffield, which means a long drive on the M1 is fairly new to me. To get to work I have to travel five junctions down the M1, apart from the traffic this is not normally a problem.
However, last night was the first time I’ve driven home in such horrific weather conditions. It was throwing it down with rain, which meant severe restrictions on my visibility.
Normally I can’t wait to get home so I head for the fast lane, and hurry along. However within seconds of been in the fast lane I realised that I couldn’t see a thing.
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Imagine been forced to chose which of your two children lived, and which died. That’s the decision that Rachel Edwards had to make the day her car hit a pothole and plummeted into a dyke. Rachel had been driving 16-year-old Jack, and two-year-old Isabella when the accident took place.
As water rushed into the vehicle, Mrs Edwards, who was six months pregnant at the time, managed to squeeze from the wreckage and swim to the surface.
She took a breath and swam back down to the wreckage to save her two children. However when she got there, she managed to free Isabella, but realised that Jack was stuck behind the closed door.
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Car accidents happen on our roads every day, they are constantly reported on the news and often the reason to endless queues of traffic jams.
However, the reason that accidents happen differs depending on a number of factors. It could be because someone pulled out in front of you, or someone slammed their brakes on and you went into the back of them.
Whatever the reason there is normally someone who is at fault.
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With more congestion on our roads it probably comes as no surprise when road accidents take place. You often see interviews on the news and people saying, ‘well it’s a bad corner it was bound to happen’. Really? What we should be asking is how and why did it happen? And what can we do to prevent this from happening in the future?
The truth is that accidents are always going to happen, some preventable, some unpreventable.
Here at The Injury Lawyers we want to make you, the public, fully aware of our no win, no fee injury compensation service just in case something does go wrong.
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Road Traffic Accidents: Children
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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Road Traffic Accidents: Vehicle Lighting
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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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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Dog attack claims are becoming more and more common in the UK. Therefore it’s no surprise that we all fear for the safety of ourselves and our children if we come into contact with them.
This comes after the BBC revealed another report of a 10 year old girl who has been bitten in the face by a Japanese Akita dog. Toni Clannachan, of Kilmarnock, was attacked by the dog as she was playing in a school friend’s garden, at a house on Tuesday.
Her father, James Dixon, told the Daily Record newspaper: “These dogs shouldn’t be with families or around kids. They are killing machines.”
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