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. This statistic was even more alarming, considering overall cycling accident casualties reduced by 4% over the same period. It also ...
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 at least twice within a period of 28 days. This figure was a 460,000 increase on the same statistics for ...
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 clients are what the Highway Code refers to as vulnerable road users, a group that includes pedestrians, cyclists, motorcyclists, and ...
After over a year of going into and out of lockdowns, here in the UK, we are now within tangible distance of the final restrictions being lifted in the near future. This summer is set to be a period of celebration, reunion and making up for lost time. No matter ...
This summer is likely to be markedly different from any most of us have known before. Coming out with such a dramatic statement isn’t drawn from any psychic-like knowledge of what the weather will be like! Rather, it is made on the basis that we will (hope upon hope) be ...
There can be few adults left in the country who have neither seen the adverts that pose the following question, nor been asked it on the phone by some of the less scrupulous types of claims company: “Had an accident that wasn’t your fault?” At first, it was a clever ...
Pedestrian accidents i.e., ones involving a collision between a motorist (or another road user) and a pedestrian, are a daily occurrence in the UK. In 2019, there were 470 deaths from pedestrian accidents. This was an increase of 3% on the previous year. In, all there were a total of ...