Bristol Personal Injury Blog
Go-kart firm fined following girl’s death
Posted: 7th November 2013
Posted in: Neck Injuries Personal Injury Public Place Accidents Wrongful & Accidental Death
The company responsible for the recent death of 18-year-old Suzanne Cornwell has been fined £10,000 for breaching health and safety laws. When Miss Cornwell’s scarf became tangled in her go-kart in December 2009, she suffered “critical” neck injuries and was unconscious when paramedics arrived at the Cambridgeshire raceway. Miss Cornwell, from Hardwick, had been at an […]
Read More40 defibrillators donated to school
Posted: 27th October 2013
Posted in: Personal Injury Public Place Accidents
A Manx heart charity has donated 40 defibrillators to primary schools on the Isle of Man after raising over £60,000 in recent charity events. Paula Lunt founded the charity donating the defibrillators – Craig’s Heartstrong Foundation – after her son died of an undiagnosed heart defect in April 2005. Since then the charity has been […]
Read MoreInjured biker takes part in fundraiser for air ambulance service
Posted: 20th October 2013
Posted in: Motorcycle Accidents Road Traffic Accidents
42-year-old John Crockford is taking part in a 500-mile fundraising race this weekend after having survived a crash on his superbike in 2011. The former superbike rider suffered 30 fractures when he collided with another rider at 130mph at a race on the Brands Hatch circuit in Kent. The father of one has returned to the track […]
Read MoreWorst street in country for potholes identified
Posted: 13th October 2013
Posted in: Pedestrian Injuries Pothole Injuries Road Traffic Accidents
A street in Leeds has been labeled the worst stretch of road for potholes in the country after more than £500,000 in compensation has gone out to those that have sustained injuries on it. Kings Lane was found to be the worst street after a YEP, Yorkshire Evening Post, investigation uncovered the fact that Leeds City […]
Read MoreHospital delays responsible for man’s death
Posted: 6th October 2013
Posted in: Medical Negligence Wrongful & Accidental Death
A coroner has described 63-year-old Mike Martin’s case as “unacceptable” after he had to wait 13 hours in hospital before being taken into surgery, and sadly died during the wait. Mr Martin was taken into Northampton General Hospital in February 2012 after complaining of such severe pain that he could not lie down – he was […]
Read MoreHealth visitor struck off after failing to recognise baby’s broken arm
Posted: 26th September 2013
Posted in: Arm Injury Birth Injury Medical Negligence
A health visitor working for Cambridgeshire Community Services has been struck off after failing to recognise that a baby in her care had a broken arm. Despite the mother of the baby raising concern over worrying bruising that had appeared on her baby’s arm, Deborah Kendall failed to carry out any examination and failed to recognise […]
Read MoreStafford nurse struck off following patient’s death
Posted: 20th September 2013
Posted in: Medical Negligence Wrongful & Accidental Death
After Gillian Astbury (66) died at Stafford Hospital in 2007 after not receiving insulin, the nurse who failed to identify her diabetes has now been struck off. July saw the two nurses responsible, Ann King and Jeannette Coulson, being deemed guilty of medical misconduct by a Nursing and Midwifery panel. Jeannette Coulson has been given a cautionary […]
Read MoreRetired Nurses Investigate Why Patient Care Standards Are Slipping
Posted: 16th September 2013
Posted in: Medical Negligence
With fears on the rise about the standard of basic nursing care in our NHS, a recent BBC clip followed two retired nurses, Trudy O’Connor and Deborah Harrison, to investigate whether or not standards really have slipped. Having themselves trained in 1968, they believe that the current level of care is not as high as it […]
Read MoreCouncil fined for elderly lady’s fall
Posted: 7th September 2013
Posted in: Public Place Accidents
An 82-year-old dementia sufferer has sustained severe cuts and bruises after falling into an open sewer at her care home in Doncaster. The council has been fined over £7,000 for leaving the 2 meter-deep manhole unguarded at Oldfield House in Stainforth. An apprentice plumber had been working at the site, leaving the hole open and […]
Read MoreHospital cleanliness causes concern
Posted: 29th August 2013
Posted in: Medical Negligence
With the Clostridium difficile (C. diff) bug causing major concern within the NHS, a woman has died after frequently complaining about a lack of hand washing in her ward. Ann Gregory (81), from Colwyn Bay, was being treated at the Clan Clwyd hospital in Denbighshire, and a community hospital, after suffering a stroke. She had frequently complained […]
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