John Mann, Labour MP for Bassetlaw, Karl Turner, MP for Hull East, and Labour Lord Toby Harris are among those who have called for Mr Maude to resign if it turns out his comments contributed to the burns accident suffered by 46-year-old Diane Hill.
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The government brushed Mr Davis aside by pointing out that neither the value of claims nor the volume of litigation have increased much recently: last year, accident claims actually fell by 9.5%.
The driver of the Vauxhall Corsa involved in the accident, a 17-year-old girl from Winchester, was interviewed by police but not arrested.
Bill Foster, a fisherman from Hatteras, North Carolina, and Dr Read, proposed the project because the Pamlico Sound near Hatteras was closed to large-mesh gill nets (which are dragged behind a boat like a curtain) for four months a year because too many turtles were being caught by accident.
Simply increasing the driving age by a year or two doesn't have much influence on the accident rate, for example.
Work will continue through the night to make safe the site of a house struck by a lorry in an accident that led to the death of a 55-year-old woman.
The toll surpasses what was believed by ballooning experts to be the deadliest accident in the sport's 200-year history: In 1989, 13 people were killed when their hot air balloon collided with another over the Australian outback near the town of Alice Springs.
The death of a three-year-old girl from Somerset who was run over by a van was an accident, an inquest has ruled.
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Earlier this year the executive set further road traffic accident targets, including the reduction of deaths and injuries by 40% and a 50% reduction in accidents involving children, by 2010.
The signalman was distracted by a phone call and thought the train had passed in January last year, the Rail Accident Investigation Branch (RAIB) found.
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