Archive for July, 2008

Tiredness causes 1 5 of all road accidents

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Tiredness causes 1/5 of all road accidents Driver tiredness accounts for around one fifth of accidents on major roads, and is responsible for around 300 deaths per year on the UK’s roads. The road safety website Think! has recently launched a campaign to try to combat the issue of car accidents due to driver tiredness. [...]

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Whiplash Prevention Is Far Better Than Compensation

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Whiplash Prevention Is Far Better Than Compensation According to figures released by insurers Crystal Claims, 70 per cent of compensation claims following a road accident are for whiplash-related injuries. You-claim’s more in-depth figures show that 43 per cent of the more serious incidents that required hospital treatments were for rear-end accidents. 32 per cent were [...]

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Veterans Hit Personal Injury Snag

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Veterans Hit Personal Injury Snag Hundreds of veterans who witnessed nuclear tests in the 1950s, have seen their claim for compensation in doubt due to existing laws on personal injury claims. The Ministry of Defence (MOD) has indicated that it will use the defence of limitation to dispute claims for compensation over radiation sickness and [...]

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Correct Use of Stun Guns

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Correct Use of Stun Guns A stun gun can be a very useful weapon when it is used correctly. It is going to give an electrical shock to the muscle of a person that it is applied to and will usually keep them down for about thirty minutes. The taser will projectile the shock and [...]

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