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Whiplash claims dwarf the number of workplace injury claims

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John Murrell
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24 Nov 2008 9:14AM

The linked ABI reporet stateson pagwe 12:

'• Vehicle fleet managers should consider purchasing
vehicles with highly-rated whiplash prevention systems.
This should reduce the amount of accidents, thereby
lowering insurance premiums.'

I can see that improving the design should reduce the number of claims but how does it reduce the number of accidents.

The report also states that a lot of the accidents resulting in whiplash injuries are the result of tailgating (pg7). However the reccomended actions do not include any enforement of seperation distances. It would be relativly easy to adopt speed camera technology to photograph tailgaters and provide sufficient evidence for a prosecution .


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