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Road safety charity calls for updates to modernise zebra crossings
- 11.01.2018
- EmmaArnold
- Personal-injury, Personal-injury, Personal-injury, Personal-injury
Zebra crossings need updating, according to a road safety charity, as around 70 people are killed on the crossings each year.
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Amputee experiences sense of touch through bionic hand
- 05.01.2018
- EmmaArnold
- Personal-injury, Personal-injury, Personal-injury, Personal-injury
After losing her hand in an accident over 25 years ago, Almerina Mascarello recently trialed the first portable bionic hand with a sense of touch.
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Amazing inventions for brain injured children on the Big Life Fix
- 15.11.2017
- EmmaArnold
- Personal-injury, Opinion, Personal-injury, Opinion, Personal-injury, Opinion, Personal-injury, Opinion
The latest instalment of the Big Life Fix on the BBC was a Children in Need special; focusing on a number of children with various disabilities. It was fascinating to see the designers and engineers come up with such brilliant ideas to help the children feel included amonsgt their peers.
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Thousands leave their job each year due to mental health
- 26.10.2017
- RichardEdwards
- Personal-injury, Opinion, Personal-injury, Opinion, Personal-injury, Opinion, Personal-injury, Opinion, Personal-injury, Opinion, Personal-injury, Opinion
The extent of poor mental health and its impact upon the ability of people to engage in work is laid bare in this important report. Employers have long been under a duty to look out for the mental well-being of their employees.
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Police reject scheme to crack down on drivers overtaking cyclists too close
- 12.10.2017
- EmmaArnold
- Personal-injury, Personal-injury
We filmed a close pass which shows Hugh's bike physically shake with the speed of the car which overtakes him too closely. Watch the video here.
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Amazing recovery for man who had plasma transfusion after motorcycle accident
- 04.10.2017
- EmmaArnold
- Personal-injury, Personal-injury, Personal-injury, Personal-injury, Personal-injury, Personal-injury
Our client became the first patient to have plasma transfusion by northern air ambulance just days before its introduction. John Beaumont suffered spinal fractures and brain herniation when he was involved in a collision with a car when riding his motorcycle in Kendal.
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Concussion to be diagnosed by app that records pupil changes
- 19.09.2017
- EmmaArnold
- Personal-injury, Personal-injury
A new smartphone app measures the change in pupil size to identify concussion and other brain injuries.
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Car-dooring: time for a new approach?
- 12.09.2017
- EmmaArnold
- Personal-injury, Opinion
As more and more people take to Britain’s streets on bikes, campaign groups say more needs to be done to save lives following car drivers and passengers carelessly opening doors.
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Needless death of teenage forklift truck driver
- 06.09.2017
- RichardEdwards
- Personal-injury, Personal-injury, Personal-injury, Personal-injury
A firm has been fined £450,000 after the "needless" death of 19 year old Ben Pallier-Singleton from Disley in Cheshire who was working as a forklift truck driver.
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Elderly woman flung from wheelchair due to pothole in the road
- 24.08.2017
- EmmaArnold
- Personal-injury, Personal-injury, Personal-injury, Personal-injury, Personal-injury, Personal-injury
A pothole covered by leaves left a disabled old lady with injuries after she was catapulted from her wheelchair.
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