An investigation has been launched into the death of an 8 year old boy at a swimming pool in North Yorkshire.

The tragic incident happened on 25 August at around 6.25pm when the 8 year old, recently named as Kaimen Ward, got into difficulties whilst swimming at Hambleton Leisure Centre in North Allerton. The young boy was dragged from the pool by life guards who desperately tried to resuscitate him however they were too late to save him and although he was rushed to nearby Friarage Hospital, he was pronounced dead upon arrival.

Cabinet member for health, Mr. Peter Wilkinson, confirmed that police were in the process of interviewing leisure centre staff and made the following statement:
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It’s 5pm and you’ve just tuned into the radio, for the ‘big drive home’. Within minutes it’s time for the travel news, which kindly informs you that there has been another pile up on the M1, which means you’ll be queuing in traffic for a good few hours.

This means that you’ll be using more petrol, which is costing you more money. But I’m guessing at that moment in time that’s the least of your worries. All you can think about is getting home and sitting in front the T.V with a nice cuppa tea, unless it’s close to pay day and your tanks showing red.

That’s what runs through my mind every day I finish work. I jump in the car, and rush off home. Happily singing along to the tunes on the radio generously picked out by my favourite DJ on my chosen radio station.
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Two teenagers were killed as a car carrying five pals went over a mountains edge.

Chloe Lane-Busby, 16 and Jai Burkes, 18 were both found dead at the scene when the car they were travelling home in after a night out plunged off a cliff.

One passenger aged 16 managed to escape from the wreckage to get help.

When rescuers arrived at the scene, they discovered that the car had landed on its roof in 4ft of water.
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A family were left in limbo after waiting 27 years for their Sons compensation case to be heard.

The figures were revealed after John O’Dowd questioned the Northern Ireland Health Bodies.

John O’Dowd said he knew of a family who had been waiting 16 years to get compensation for their son, who became severely disabled after some medical treatment he had under-took went wrong.

When speaking with the BBC Mr O’Dowd said that legal fees over 27 years could run into millions.
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I’ve met some unlucky people in my life but this man has to be one of the unluckiest.

A man in Worcestershire was knocked off his motorbike by a low-flying swan.

An ambulance was called to the scene, and the man was taken to hospital for treatment on his broken collar bone.

Unfortunately the biker was unable to make a claim, because I’m afraid you can’t sue a swan. However, I’m sure if he could have then the bird in question would have had a large settlement to pay out.

It’s only the other week a man fell off of his ladder because a Pigeon flew at him. These animals are out of control.

Next it’ll be bulls charging into the back of cars causing whiplash and bees covering your wind screen causing you to spin out of control.

“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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