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Fatal Accidents

Details: Serious and Fatal Injuries; Created: 21 October 2021; Hits: 1616

Today, 21st October 2021, marks fifty years since the Clarkston Gas explosion that led to the tragic loss of 22 people and injury to more than 100 others. This represented the largest loss of life since the end of World War Two. The force of the...

Details: Serious and Fatal Injuries; Created: 01 June 2021; Hits: 1764

‘Following a fatal accident at work, the Scottish Fatalities Investigation Unit (SFIU) who are a specialist unit of the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service (COPFS), must undertake a detailed investigation into the circumstances of the...

Details: Serious and Fatal Injuries; Created: 25 September 2020; Hits: 1801

Following the deaths of three asylum seekers in Glasgow, a group of local MPs have called for a Fatal Accident Inquiry into the circumstances. While the deaths themselves are not directly connected, those seeking the inquiry consider that they may...

Details: Serious and Fatal Injuries; Created: 20 November 2019; Hits: 2822

August 2019 saw the publishing of the Follow-Up Review of Fatal Accident Inquiries by the Inspectorate of Prosecution in Scotland. The review considered what progress, if any, that has been made by the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service...

Details: Serious and Fatal Injuries; Created: 21 June 2018; Hits: 4001

Fatal Accident Inquiries can be held when a death occurs in the course of a person’s employment or whilst in legal custody. They can also be held when the death is sudden, suspicious, or unexplained, or occurred in circumstances giving rise to...

Details: Serious and Fatal Injuries; Created: 23 February 2017; Hits: 2911

On 16th February 2013, a woman was killed after a speeding rally car veered off of the track in Inverness and landed on top of her. Thereafter, 31st May 2014 saw three individuals killed as a result of another rally car careering off of the road...

Details: Serious and Fatal Injuries; Created: 11 May 2016; Hits: 3484

At around midday on Thursday 28 April 2016 a worker, working on the new Queensferry Crossing, was struck by the boom of a crane he was directing on the north tower deck. The worker suffered severe blood loss and was unable to be resuscitated.

Making...

Details: Serious and Fatal Injuries; Created: 21 December 2015; Hits: 2597

A new fatal accident inquiry (FAI) law has been passed which means that FAIs can now be conducted in cases where Scottish nationals die in accidents abroad; even in circumstances where their bodies are not repatriated.

Although there were some...

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Subcategories

Fatal Accidents

50 years on from the Clarkston Gas Explosion

Sixteen months on from Clive’s death and no certainty

Fatal Accident Inquiries – protecting the vulnerable

The latest Government review of Fatal Accident Inquiries

Fatal Accident Inquiries - A long wait for answers

Deaths at motorsport events and the importance of Fatal Accident Inquiries

Campaign for safer workplaces never ends

FAIs extended to cover accidents abroad