“It has long been accepted that a failure to wear a seatbelt will affect proportion of damages that a Claimant can receive for an accident, if that failure caused or contributed to his injury. This new case from April 2012 applies the same reasoning to the use of child seats and the apportionment of liability.”
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Zenith Chambers, 22nd October 2012
Source: www.zenithchambers.co.uk
“A mother who put her three-year-old daughter in a car booster seat has been found partly responsible for her crippling car crash injuries by the High Court because it was the wrong seat for her age.”
Daily Telegraph, 26th April 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A fireman was cleared of not wearing a seatbelt after he said a policewoman told him she had to book him because she had targets to hit.”
Daily Telegraph, 16th February 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The government is assembling a panel of experts to look at introducing a law against taking drugs and driving, and to assess the means of testing and the possible legal limits for motorists.”
The Guardian, 4th January 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Cusack v Harrow London Borough Council: [2011] EWCA Civ 1514; [2011] WLR (D) 357
“A highway authority had power under section 66(2) of the Highways Act 1980, but not under section 80, to erect posts so as to prevent vehicular access to a frontager’s forecourt in order to safeguard users of the highway. If the highway authority exercised that power the frontager would become entitled to compensation under section 66(8) of the 1980 Act.”
WLR Daily, 7th December 2011
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“Distinct from the situation of loose horses straying on to the road is the case where a horse with a rider comes into contact with traffic. This will sometimes lead to the rider either suing the driver or the driver suing the rider and with a subsequent counter claim.”
Hardwicke Chambers, 17th November 2011
Source: www.hardwicke.co.uk
“The deaths of two schoolchildren in a crash in Cumbria could have been avoided if they had been wearing seatbelts, a coroner has said.”
BBC News, 14th July 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A motorist who spent two days on a life support machine after crashing on black ice is suing the Highways Agency for failing to grit the road properly.”
Daily Telegraph, 10th November 2009
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Motorists caught without a seatbelt will now face on-the-spot fines of £60.”
Home Office, 29th June 2009
Source: www.homeoffice.gov.uk
“Fines for not wearing a seatbelt have been doubled to £60 after the Home Office admitted the previous penalty was not acting as a sufficient deterrent.”
Daily Telegraph, 30th June 2009
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Police are resorting to vehicles resembling Google’s Street View cars to catch motorists breaking the law.”
Daily Telegraph, 6th April 2009
Source: www.telegraph.co.ukl
“Britain’s cyclists reacted in uproar yesterday to a High Court ruling that they can be blamed for their injuries if they don’t wear a helmet – even if the accident itself was caused by someone else.”
The Independent, 16th March 2009
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Speed limits on most single-carriageway roads in rural areas could be cut from 60mph to 50mph under a Government plan to cut the number of deaths in car accidents.”
The Independent, 9th March 2009
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Novice drivers could face an automatic ban after a single speeding offence, and would have to retake their tests, under proposals for a tightening of road safety laws.”
The Times, 21st November 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“Lower speed limits and a tougher enforcement of drink-driving laws are needed to cut the number of road deaths, MPs have said.”
BBC News, 29th October 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The father of a seven-year-old girl killed in a head-on collision while riding a quad bike was today given a nine-month suspended jail term after admitting his daughter’s manslaughter.”
The Guardian, 20th October 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The Home Office has launched a consultation into increasing the fixed penalty for those who fail to wear a seatbelt.”
Home Office, 15th September 2008
Source: www.homeoffice.gov.uk
“A circular providing an overview of the new offences of causing death by careless driving and causing death by driving when unlicensed, disqualified or uninsured, which will be implemented on 18 August 2008.”
Circular 2008/03: Road Safety Act 2006: Implementation of Sections 20 and 21 (PDF)
Ministry of Justice, 18th August 2008
Source: www.justice.gov.uk
“A zero drink-driving limit should be imposed on all drivers under 20, the chief medical officer recommended yesterday, saying that such a ban would save lives.”
The Guardian, 15th july 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“About 370 people die in road crashes in Britain each year because they fail to wear a seatbelt, safety campaigners said today.”
The Guardian, 31st January 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
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