Chorley’s olympic champion Bradley Wiggins injured in road accident

Olympic cycling champion and Tour de France winner Bradley Wiggins was injured yesterday in a cycling road accident. The accident happened on Crow Orchard Road, Wrightington when a white Astra van pulled out of a garage forecourt into collision with the cyclist.

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The High Court has heard evidence in a case relating to a road accident between a Range Rover and a child in Preston.

At the time of the accident the child was aged 7 years. The accident occurred in daylight as the child, Anisa Rehman, was crossing Acregate Lane, Preston close to her home. The vehicle driver, Mr Brady, gave a statement that he was driving towards New Hall Lane and due to the presence of parked cars on both sides of the road he slowed to between 20 and 30mph.

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Rear end shunt: when is the front driver to blame?

The ‘rear end shunt’ is one of the most common types of road accident and one which frequently causes injury giving rise to a claim for personal injury compensation. There is a general assumption that liability for such an accident rests with the rear driver, however in a recent case the Court of Appeal found that both the front and rear drivers were partly to blame for causing a rear end shunt accident.

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