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@07:53 - "people will still be compensated if injured due to an RTA" - are you kidding me?!?! Have you even read the proposed reforms.

The tariff system essentially removes fair compensation. A 12 month whiplash injury (which I can tell you from personal experience, is incredibly uncomfortable, and makes some of life's most simple tasks, difficult and painful) would currently attract an award of approx £3,000.

A similar soft-tissue wrist injury (lets call it what it is...a sprain), might attract a similar figure.

The tariff system proposes to reduce compensation for the pain and suffering occasioned by the first injury, to approx £400 if I remember rightly...yet the wrist injury remains untouched despite the fact that the first injury is infinitely more restrictive, uncomfortable and has a greater impact on daily life.

Essentially, the government is happy to equate such an injury to the inconvenience of being delayed for 6+ hours for a flight as the figures are similar...

Shame on them and their ABI paymasters.