Pages On: Pothole Injuries
Potholes are a blight on road users and pedestrians alike. Not only can they damage our property, they can cause serious injuries in the form of trip and fall accidents. Most councils have their own criteria for assessing the need to fill potholes. However, budget constraints can play a hand in the maintenance of them. If a council has overlooked a significant pothole that has caused you injury, you may be entitled to claim personal injury compensation from them — if they are liable for the accident.
Damaged roads cost council £1m in compensation
Posted: 21 October 2015
Posted in: Pothole Injuries, Road Traffic Accidents
It has been revealed, following a recent Freedom of Information request, that a county council has had to pay out over £1million in compensation to injured residents as a result of poorly maintained roads. A total of 1,228 residents have been awarded compensation by Hertfordshire County Council in the last two-and-a-half years because of injuries sustained through road defects. The payouts have cost the council a total of £1,014,926. Liberal Democrat Councillor Stephen Giles-Medhurst said that these figures suggest that the council has to have a ‘total rethink’ with regards…
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Will ‘pothole app’ reduce whiplash claims?
Posted: 28 July 2015
Posted in: Bicycle Accidents, Pothole Injuries, Road Traffic Accidents, Whiplash Injuries
With over 1,500 people making whiplash claims in the UK everyday, the government has come up with a new solution to help tackle the problem: a smartphone app. Where the country has endured decades of severe winters and underfunding, potholes have become a huge problem for road users, and councils, nationwide. However, the government has launched a new means of dealing with the problem, through technology. According to the Association of British Insurers, potholes cost the insurance industry more than £2billion every year, pushing our average price of yearly motor…
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Pensioner’s pothole fall claim dismissed by council
Posted: 24 July 2014
Posted in: Arm Injury, Pedestrian Injuries, Pothole Injuries, Public Place Accidents
The daughter of pensioner and fitness instructor Trixie Offord, Sheryn Ross, has warned people of Bucks County Council’s pothole policy after her mother suffered serious injuries and received no compensation. Mrs Offord was hospitalised after tripping on a pothole while walking back to her home in Hampden Road, Chalfont St Peter. She was treated for a broken wrist and several injuries to her face and nose. Sheryn Ross assisted her mother in claiming for compensation but was told by a solicitor that the council had checked the pothole two weeks prior to…
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Cyclist “could’ve been killed” in pothole crash
Posted: 27 April 2014
Posted in: Bicycle Accidents, Head and Brain Injuries, Pothole Injuries, Public Place Accidents, Road Traffic Accidents
A cyclist from Bellfields said that he “could’ve been killed” when he was flipped off his bike after hitting a pothole when cycling home from a friend’s house. Tony Webber suffered serious facial damage in the accident and has criticised the state of the county’s roads. He had been cycling home from his friend’s house in Grange Road last Tuesday when the accident happened on Sloughton Road, near Stoke New Cemetery. He had not been wearing a helmet at the time of the crash, but doctors said that the force of the…
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