Personal Injury Lawyers Win Unusual Case For Railway Worker In Leeds

If you say the words ‘train injury’ and ‘compensation’, they immediately conjure up images of mutilations and broken limbs, suffered from explosive crashes with speeding freight trains. However, not all injury claims involved with trains involve head on collisions and severed limbs; a Leeds train driver has successfully sued his Employers, Northern Rail for almost 6,000 compensation after tripping over some discarded rubbish on a train track.

Peter Kelly, the train driver from Selby, North Yorkshire utilised the help of ASLEF and their personal injury lawyer specialists Thompsons to secure his compensation. It is a classic example of ‘where there’s blame, there’s a claim.’

Kelly, 49, was stepping up on to the train to drive back to Leeds on the Ilkley route when the accident occurred, as he slipped on some litter that had not been tidied away, falling on to the platform, causing injury to his lower back.

According to Mr Kelly, the pain in his back was terrible, but he did not attend hospital immediately as he thought it would go away. He had plans to go on holiday with his family to America, but due to the pain in his back the vacation that they had all been looking forward to was ruined. When they returned from the US, he sought medical attention and has been on a course of painkillers, only able to walk short distances.

His case was successful because his injury lawyer managed to prove that his employer had not provided a safe enough working environment for him to work in. He was represented by Keely Goldup who is a personal injury lawyer from the Leeds firm Thompsons Solicitors, who claimed that Mr Kelly’s employers were fully aware of the workplace regulations which make very clear the health and safety requirements that they are duty bound to perform. It would seem that the Leeds branch of Northern Rail have let themselves down and have paid a hefty penalty.

This is a fairly idiosyncratic example of a claimant seeking compensation, however if you or a loved one has suffered a personal injury, then you should seek out the best legal advice available to claim the compensation that you deserve.

If this case can succeed, when an injury lawyer can successfully sue for a train driver slipping on a piece of rubbish, then this can spell hope for all those victims of personal injury who may consider their case simply too random or strange to have any real hope for victory.

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Published by: Donald McGowan on October 28th, 2009 | Filed under Legal



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