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highway accident
Case notes tagged “highway accident”.
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- Litigation & law practice
UK tourists fail to Captain Cook, campervan U-turn splatters Sunday morning bikers
They arrived in Melbourne from a bitterly cold UK winter just two weeks earlier and were making their way north along the coast basking in Queensland’s December warmth.
- Litigation & law practice
Council Negligence: Loose stones road death, ‘roadworks’ warning insufficient
The husband of a driver killed in an August 2004 country road single-vehicle accident has sued the local council for council negligence by failing to erect signage warning of the loose gravel associated with road works.
- Litigation & law practice
Suncorp pleads ‘clunker defence’: you knew it was a rust bucket, suck up your brain injuries
Taking risks with the mechanical state of a vehicle could void personal injury compensation for a resulting motor accident if the mechanical fault is the cause; failing to get clear of a vehicle in the middle of a busy highway…
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