Road Traffic Accidents Archives

Injury Prevention Week: What You Should Know About E-Scooter Accidents
This week is Injury Prevention Week, and this year the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers (APIL), a not-for-profit organisation that has fought for the rights of injured people for over...
Why do some motorists dislike cyclists so much?
Whichever way you try to spin it, it has been an indisputable fact for many years that some drivers, just don’t like cyclists. On the face of it there’s no...
A Brief Guide To Fatal Accident Claims
This article was originally published in November 2019. It was last updated in April 2022. Fatal accidents can happen in any walk of life. However, some types of accidents are...
Who is at fault for a self-driving car accident?
The idea of a car that can drive itself without any input from the driver seems like something from a science fiction movie and not something many of us will...
What is meant by a split liability claim?
Not all personal injury claims are straightforward in terms of working out who was at fault for the accident. Sometimes it could be a case of ‘six of one and...
Is using a mobile phone whilst driving as unacceptable as drink driving?
Article updated - Dec 2021 Has using a phone whilst driving, become as big a taboo as driving whilst under the influence of alcohol, is? The answer is that it...
Can an injured passenger claim against a drunk driver?
This article was updated in December 2023. Millions of pounds have been spent on Drink Drive campaigns for over fifty years. Despite this, some people still get into their cars...
Should the wearing of cycling helmets be made compulsory?
A Guardian newspaper report from June 2021 revealed the number of cyclists killed on the roads of Britain in 2020 had increased by 40% compared to the previous year’s figures....
4 types of running accident that might lead to a personal injury claim
A survey carried out by Sport England, released in April 2021, found that between November 2019 and November 2020, approximately 7.1 million people in England went out for a run...
Are e-scooters accidents waiting to happen or a public benefit?
At Mooneerams solicitors, we regularly act for clients who are injured in road traffic accidents and want to make personal injury claims against the other vehicle's driver. Many of these...