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Bideford solicitor, Mike Clarke reports on another successful personal injury claim for Slee Blackwell

A Torrington rugby fan has secured compensation for personal injury suffered in a London pub.  John Pledger of Torrington, North Devon was at the Barmy Arms in Twickenham with his family, having a quiet pint after watching a rugby match in December 2009.  He went to use the gents and slipped on water on the floor, suffering tendon damage to his right knee.

A Bideford man who suffered back injuries in a motorcycle crash in February 2009 has secured compensation of nearly £40,000 at Exeter county court from Devon County Council.  Graham Mills, a former member of the Parachute Regiment, who lives in Lanefield Road, was riding a Suzuki motorcycle along Abbotsham road, just by the former Grenville College.  He rode through what he thought was a puddle, but which hid a large pothole, and was thrown from the bike. 

Bideford based personal injury solicitor, Mike Clarke reports on another successful compensation claim won by Slee Blackwell Solicitors

Mike Clarke, personal injury solicitor at Slee Blackwell’s Bideford office, has just been instructed to act for a young London man who lost his right leg above the knee in a motorcycle accident in Vauxhall last month.  The client was  confronted with a car coming towards him on the wrong side of a dual carriageway and lost control while trying to avoid it.  He hit a lamppost and suffered very serious injuries.  Mike says “This client’s life and his plans for the future have been thrown into turmoil by this accident.  I am collecting initial evidenc

Mr David Machin is making a miraculous recovery from a severe head injury that almost killed him last November.  He was working at the South Molton premises of South West Metals Ltd when he was hit on the back of the head by a bolt that had sheared off from the jib of a grabber crane, which a fellow worker had accidentally swung into a metal post.

Mike Clarke, a specialist personal injury solicitor and partner in charge of Slee Blackwell’s Bideford office, is a qualified advanced motorcyclist and has been riding since the age of 17.  He is a member of Devon Freewheelers EVS, a charity which provides urgent and emergency transport of vital medical supplies such as medicine, premature baby milk, blood, human tissue, and donor organs to hospitals throughout the South West.  This service covers night-time and weekends when normal delivery procedures are either not available to the NHS, or are prohibitively expensive.