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 obvious logic to this dislike that often borders on hatred. After all, both motorists and cyclists are legitimate road users ...
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 more likely to cause fatal injuries than others. The Department of Transport's statistics reveal that 1390 people died due to road ...
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 live to see. If you are nodding in agreement, then think again. On the 26th of January 2022, The Law ...
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 half a dozen of the other’, or in slightly more legal terms, a case of ‘split liability’. Split liability in ...
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 probably has not. Many drivers, who would never dream of getting behind a wheel whilst drunk, still think nothing of ...
Despite the millions of pounds spent on anti-drink driving campaigns over many years, a significant amount of people still get into their cars and drive whilst under the influence of alcohol. The last drink-drive figures released by the Department for Transport (DfT) before the Covid lockdown of 2020 make for ...
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 ...