Car Accident Solicitor

Current legislation dictates that there is no legal requirement for a mobile crane to have any kind of roadworthiness inspection or MOT check regardless as to whether they are a two-axle 30-tonner or nine-axle 1,000-tonne capacity beasts. Compared to this, even the smallest motor car must be certified as roadworthy every year once it reaches the age of three years old. Mobile cranes have no such requirement even if they are 20 or 30 years old.

This exemption is now under scrutiny following a fatal accident where tragically the lives of a mother and her two daughters were lost. Ann Copeland and her daughters Clare, 7, and Niamh, 10, from Johnshaven, died after their car skidded on the A92 in Aberdeenshire in January 2008. At the fatal accident inquiry it was heard that her car most likely skidded on hydraulic oil that had leaked from a crane onto the road. Sheriff Kenneth Steward recommended that MOTs for mobile cranes be made compulsory.

It is understood that the Health and Safety Executive said it would give the matter "careful consideration"

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