We can help you claim
compensation following an accident
illness or injury - nationwide
Call: 0800 10 757 95
As a worker in a no
win, no fee compensation firm, it's important that I keep an eye on
the various accident
injury news streams that might affect our industry, and this week it
seems to have been a bad week for sports and whiplash.
Now, the closest I get to sports fandom is the snooker, and as the IT manager for this personal injury claim firm says, if you can do it in a bow tie, it's a pastime. (Monopoly might count as a sport otherwise.) So I must apologise in advance if I get some of the terminology wrong; but what it does show is that the level of accident injury affecting sportspeople has been serious enough for even someone like me to notice, so it must have been a bad week.
Take the cricket; there's a couple of people here who have suffered in car accidents, getting themselves nasty cases of whiplash serious enough to stop them playing. One is the captain for Yorkshire, who got snarled up in the aftermath of a car crash last weekend, but it sounds like his personal injury is mild enough that he should be playing again next week - just as well, it seems, as there's other members of the team off playing for England, and another player's fighting a hip injury (not car-related, this time).
The other cricketer out of action plays for Weymouth, and appears to be in a similar situation - just a couple of days later, as his neck injury was suffered in a road traffic accident on Monday.
But it's not just cricket; there's a rugby player, for example, from the Irish team who - if I've understood correctly - may have suffered a spot of whiplash injury in the process of playing his game as he bounced off the back of another player. Again, this seems to have been a minor thing - perhaps there's something in the belief that being highly-trained can help a person recover from personal injury faster, or avoid the worst of it?
Whatever the reason, the Independent admired his fortitude and tendency to carry on: "When it was gently suggested to him that he might feel unable to carry on, after a whiplash blow that was probably no less jolting for appearing entirely innocent, he shook his head once again and delivered what could only be described as a sardonic smile." I don't think I've seen sardonic smiles outside of the heroes of romantic novels; praise indeed, yes?
But my favourite example relates to what can only be described as a minority sport - lawn mower racing. No-one actually suffered whiplash injury in this event, in suburban Illinois, partly because they are compelled to wear neck protection, and partly because the event was cancelled due to poor weather.
The truth is, it's probably my favourite partly because of it being such a minority interest sport, and partly because no personal injury was suffered - I may work for a no win, no fee compensation firm, but I'm no ghoul wishing people would hurt themselves. It might be a credit crunch, but we'd never wish to hear vertebrae crunch.