A teenager who was injured when she was thrown from her motorcycle after a farmer left a country road covered in mud has been awarded £10,000 compensation. Carrie Dickinson was 16 when the accident happened just a few miles from her home in Belton nearly two years ago. She had left college early and visited [...]
"The second time I rode into London in an effort to gain some fitness, rather than take the train, ended like this," says YouTube user cyclejack. "This" being an idiot in a car deciding to ignore him, ramming and sending him and his bicycle into the air. Miraculously, he wasn't injured, just bruised. I was [...]
Youth sues mother over road accident A TEENAGE boy from County Limerick who sued his mother following a minor road collision was awarded almost €14,000 in damages. The boy, who is from the Rathkeale area and is now aged 17, initiated the Personal Injury claim through his father following the collision more than [...]
A man has died following a single-vehicle road accident in Co Wexford last night. Gardaí were alerted on the Newtown Road, Wexford, at approximately 5.05am when the car collided with a wall. The 30-year-old driver was removed by ambulance to Wexford General Hospital where he was later pronounced dead. The road has been closed for [...]
A wheel flew off a pick-up truck straight into oncoming traffic. Car experts say, this accident could have been prevented. It happened along I-64 Friday morning during rush hour traffic. Police say a tire flew off a pick-up truck and smashed the windshield of an SUV traveling in the other direction. They say the lug-nuts [...]
A brave Padiham man who amazed doctors by walking again after suffering severe brain damage in a road accident has celebrated a milestone birthday. Ryan Cooper was in a coma for six months after being hit by a car as a child in 1999 and doctors feared he may never be able to walk or [...]
FRAUDSTERS who tried to con an insurer out of around £20,000 by falsely claiming for injuries received in a crash that never happened have been found out by a telematics device. The personal injury claim was filed with Aviva after three claimants reported that two vehicles had been in a collision in Liverpool. But the [...]
Ambition was in plentiful supply at the RDS as the BT Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition got under way yesterday. “We want to save lives,” said a confident Ronan MacGaoithin as he described his research project. Ronan (13) and his brother Eóin (14), are students at Coláiste Ailigh in Donegal and they wanted to develop [...]