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Your safety comes first. If you’re involved in a multi-vehicle collision, you should take immediate steps to ensure you’re out of harm’s way. You should then seek medical assistance, no matter how minor your injuries appear. Once the dust has settled, you should consider whether you’re entitled to compensation. In multi-vehicle accidents, liability might lie with one driver whose negligence caused the entire incident, or multiple drivers might share the blame.
You can claim for injuries you sustained in a low-speed car crash if they were caused by someone else’s negligence. These claims can be trickier to prove than those involving high-speed crashes since your injuries and the damage to your vehicle may be less obvious. However, even minor injuries can give rise to compensation claims. Accordingly, you should always seek advice on your legal position to ensure you recover the compensation you deserve.
Public transport operators must take reasonable steps to ensure their passengers’ safety. If they don’t, and if you’re injured as a result, you may be entitled to compensation. Examples of the types of incidents for which you might be able to make a personal injury claim include slipping on a wet floor, being thrown out of your seat because the driver brakes too heavily, and luggage falling on you from an overhead shelf.
If you’re injured while driving for work, you can claim compensation from anyone responsible for the accident. Say, for example, your employer had not properly maintained your vehicle, and its faulty brakes caused the accident in which you were injured. In that case, you may be entitled to compensation from your employer. However, if your vehicle was in full working order and the accident was caused by another driver’s negligence, your claim would be against that driver.
Driving without insurance is illegal. If you have an accident while driving without insurance, chances are the police will get involved, and you’ll likely be prosecuted. You may still be eligible for personal injury compensation if someone else was responsible for the accident, but if the other party makes a counterclaim against you and succeeds, you’d have no insurance policy to cover the costs.
Vehicle manufacturers are legally obliged to ensure their products are safe. If you’re injured in an accident caused by a defect in your vehicle, you may be entitled to compensation from the manufacturer. If the defect didn’t cause the accident but made the outcome worse, for example, defective seatbelts not working in a crash, you may still be able to bring a personal injury claim against the vehicle manufacturer.
If you’re injured in a pedestrian accident for which someone else was to blame, you will be entitled to claim compensation. The more evidence you can provide to support your claim, the better. That evidence might include photographs of the scene and your injuries, your own recollections, and witness accounts. You should also retain evidence to substantiate your financial losses, such as receipts and payslips. If you don’t have this evidence, don’t worry. We’ll advise you on what you need and help you to gather it.
Dashcam footage can be incredibly useful in proving that the other side was responsible for the road traffic accident in which you were injured. Dashcam evidence is entirely impartial, making it extremely difficult for the other side to dispute its veracity. Furthermore, it’s timestamped, so it provides a contemporaneous record of events as they unfolded. If you can produce high-quality dashcam evidence of the other side’s negligence, their insurers will likely make a settlement offer early in the claims process.
