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Usually, when you work in a personal injury claim company with a national reach, you find yourself writing about work accidents, car crashes and product liability claims that happen miles away from you. We appreciate the tragedy, wherever an incident occurs, and we're in this job to help and support the people hurt through no fault of their own, but I've just been made very aware of the protection that that distance offers us.
That's because I've just come back from a week away to my local paper saying that there was a serious road traffic accident barely a mile from my front door. In fact, it happened on the very long road that my front door opens on to.
I'd been away on what's best described as a retreat - no TV, no radio, no internet, no mobile reception. I remember hopping on the train, seven hours north of home, and seeing all the Saturday papers full of news about the credit crunch turning into a recession, and thinking "crikey, I've only been away a week and you've all broken it!". Then I remember convincing myself what a witty response to the scary situation that was.
Now, that's a fairly head-based response; it's difficult to get a physical reaction to the understanding of economic interaction, no matter how significant it is and how likely it is to damage all of our near futures. Coming back to a local front page about a fatal car crash on my own road is entirely a heart-based response, and I can assure you there were no attempts at witty responses on my part.
The teenager had come off the road just as it was getting dark, and had hit a wall, causing him to suffer serious personal injury. He was cut from the car, and hurried to my local hospital, but staff there were unable to save him.
A local road traffic accident campaigner was interviewed by the paper, and said, "We've been saying something like this is going to happen. What's happened is awful. It's a dangerous road and something needs to be done."
The local council was also given an opportunity to respond, and said, "It would be wrong to comment on the accident as it is still being investigated by the police and subject to an inquest, but we will look closely at any issues which arise.
"We do monitor all our roads and will listen to any concerns raised with us, such as whether there is a need for an interactive speed sign."
What it's done here, though, in our pod of personal injury workers, is bring home the significance of what it is we do; we're all fairly local to this car crash, and it makes us more determined to ensure that anyone who deserves compensation following an injury is able to have access to the no win, no fee solicitors who can ensure they receive it.
