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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As we all know the roads are a dangerous place, and we need to keep alert at all times. You never know who, or what is going to run out in front of you. A former pop star was killed when a 48-stone hay bale bounced out of a field and landed on his van.

Mike Edwards, who played cello with 70’s group the Electric Light Orchestra (ELO), and who was driving the van at the time, died instantly.

It is believed a tractor had been at work when the cylindrical bale had rolled down a hill, before hurling over a 50ft hedge.
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A 28-year-old Washington woman’s life could have been ruined when a stranger approached her in a public street and shouted, ’Hey pretty girl, do you want to drink this?’

Bethany Storro, was in Vancouver, Washington at the time the attack took place. She was about to enter her local Starbucks coffee shop as a female stranger approached her and threw liquid in her direction.

The liquid, which Doctors say they believe was a form of acid ripped straight through the clothes of the 28-year-old victim, causing the skin it touched to burn away.
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Accidents at work are an on-going occurrence in everyday life. And often result in paying out large amounts of compensation as a result. With the increase of compensation adverts on TV, it’s no surprise that work accident claims are making it into the news.

Accidents at work can happen anywhere, to anyone. Even the highest paid celebrities can suffer injuries at work, that’s exactly what happened on the Transformers set. Gabriella Cadillo, 24, was working as an extra on the set of the sequel to the Transformers movie when a stunt when wrong.

The 24-year-old was reportedly filming a scene for the movie when an object stuck the car she was driving and went through the windshield hitting her on the head. According to Illinois police the car then hit a bar, and carried on for about a mile before it came to a standstill.
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Passengers on a Qantas jet began screaming after they saw flames coming from the engine minutes after takeoff. The Boeing 747-400 which was en route from San Francisco to Sydney had to turn back just 30-minutes after take-off on Monday morning’s flight.

The captain, who has not been name, tried to reassure those on board by saying, “Normally, we do it in a simulator, of course – we are trained.”

One of the 212 passengers on the flight managed to capture the pilot’s tannoy message on video. On the tape he said:
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With all of the congestion on the roads, and the pollution that it is causing to our environment, a lot of us now choose to cycle to work. It’s becoming a more and more popular way of commuting.

Unfortunately as a cyclist you are extremely vunerable when using the roads. If you were to end up in a collision, especially with a motor vehicle, then you would have very little protection.

If you are unfortunate enough to be involved in an accident on the road as a cyclist, and it is not your fault, then you may be able to make a claim for compensation.
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