Have you had an accident?

According to online newspaper This Is Lancashire, Bolton Council was forced to pay out nearly £600,000 in compensation in 2009 after numerous people tripped and fell on uneven pavements.
These incidents led to drawn-out personal injury claim cases, where the claimants were awarded compensation according to the severity of their injuries or emotional suffering.

Despite this huge figure, Bolton Council says it actually managed to reduce the amount paid out in compensation compared to 2008, when they coughed up around £800,000. What’s more, Bolton is lower on the list for personal injury payouts than many other local authorities in Manchester.

Just a thought: would it not be cheaper to just fix the pavements to stop innocent pedestrians getting injured? The potholes on Manchester roads could do with some work too!

Tags: Injury Stats, Personal Injury Claims by Dave
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Researchers at the State University of New York at Buffalo have announced that head and necked injuries caused by dog-bites increase in summer months.

The study was carried out using 84 children. the youngest child was 10 months and the eldest was 19, the average age was 6 years old. The study results show that children of 4 years or younger were more likely to be harmed. 27 percent of cases were related to family pets and most common breeds to cause harm were pit bull.

I always like to wonder about these studies. What the researchers are trying to suggest is that during the  summer, dogs are more likely bite due to the heat.

My thoughts are that when it is -3° outside every day during the winter, you will either never see kids outside or when kids are outside they are so well wrapped up that a bus could hit them and they would just need to dust down any dirty and carry on what they are doing. Thus kids are more likely to wear less clothing during the summer.

Too be brutally honest this study is not a study, it just common sense. I mean if I had kids I would not have a dog that in any way is connected to fighting. Pit Bulls were bread to kill vermin and many years ago they were involved in dog fighting so why would you have one around young children.

SOURCE: Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery, March 2009

Tags: Animal Related Injuries, Injury Stats by Dave
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