Trainee teacher seeks personal injury compensation after severe fall

A trainee teacher knocked unconscious after a severe fall outside her workplace is now seeking compensation and encouraging other victims to follow suit.

Earlier this month, Local newspaper This Is Kent reported on the case on Lisa Kelly, a trainee teacher from Davington, who slipped whilst on her way to the shops last year.

Early one morning, Ms Kelly came across a set of road works erected around a gas repair job. She claims that equipment belonging to Southern Gas Networks was strewn across the pavement, and with no sign of supervision, the dangers such equipment was not made clear to the public.

As she tried to navigate a safe path around the equipment, Ms Kelly slipped, banging her head on the pavement before falling unconscious. Ms Kelly required extensive treatment for facial injuries and now suffers from memory loss and blurred vision as a result.

Ms Kelly is now considering seeking public liability compensation from Southern Gas Networks and claims that her case is all about the principle not money. She claims that as the incident was so close to a school a child could have been seriously hurt.

Cases like Ms Kelly's are not uncommon throughout the UK and she has encouraged other victims to follow her example and challenge negligent organisations through the courts. If you've been hurt in a similar accident and it wasn't your fault, contact our personal injury solicitors today.