Putting Victims at the Heart of Road Safety Week 2024
Road Safety Week UK is an annual campaign organised by the road safety charity Brake every third week in November. Since its inception in the mid-20th Century, Road Safety Week...
Distracted Drivers and Road Traffic Accidents: How To Stay Safe
As we head towards the busy Christmas period and start planning visits to friends far and wide, now seems as good a time as any to look at the impact...
How often is a driver’s poor eyesight responsible for road traffic accidents?
According to an article that appeared on the Compare the Market website in March 2024, the top ten causes of road traffic accidents in Great Britain are: Driver/Biker/Rider error or...
10 Tips for what to do after a car accident
Many of us will be involved in car accidents of varying degrees of severity during our lifetimes. Equally, most of us can attest to the fact that involvement in even...
Will the record number of UK drivers aged over 90 increase the number of personal injury claims?
“The man on the Clapham omnibus” is a phrase that was first used in English Law in the Victorian era to describe what the ordinary reasonable would think in a...
Road Safety Week 2023: Why Is It Still OK To Speed?
Road Safety Week is an annual road safety awareness event held during the third week of November. The week provides an opportunity to promote awareness of the need for us...
Child Safety Week 2023 – How To Improve Child Safety on the Roads
Child Safety Week runs from the 5th to the 11th of June this year and is an annual community education campaign promoted by the Child Accident Prevention Trust. It aims...
Life after the Whiplash Reforms – what price access to justice?
“For too long, some have exploited a rampant compensation culture and seen whiplash claims an easy payday, driving up costs for millions of law-abiding motorists. These reforms will crack down...
Electric Scooter Accident Compensation Claims
Electric Scooter Accident Compensation Claims Electric scooters, or e-scooters, are a relatively new form of transport. Over the past few years, electric scooters have become an everyday sight on...
Is it time to give the Rules of the Highway Code some teeth?
Possibly the least surprising news we've read in a while came via a recent article in the South Wales Argus, which carried the headline: "Majority of drivers have not read...