Compensation Claims for Personal Injuries Sustained in a Road Traffic Accident

Who Can Claim and Who Against?

If you are involved in a road traffic accident, which was not your fault, then you may be entitled to make a compensation claim through our direct access barristers, for your injuries.

If you are a passenger in a vehicle, which is involved in a collision, your claim is made through our direct access barristers against the insurance company of the person responsible for the accident. That could be your own driver or the other driver and maybe both of them.

If you are a hit by a car as a pedestrian, a motorcyclist, cyclist or a driver, your claim through our direct access barristers is against the insurance company of the other car’s driver.

Claiming Compensation For Your Injuries

Another person would need to be responsible for your injuries. Clearly if the accident was entirely your fault then the negligence is with you.

If you have an accident you should take names, addresses and telephone numbers of any witnesses to the accident. As soon as possible take photographs of the where the accident happened. You could start with mobile phone photographs which may show the conditions, the resting place of vehicles, debris etc. Follow up with a proper camera and photograph the scene from all relevant angles and distances. If the other driver has no insurance details, leaves the scene or is driving a stolen vehicle, call the police immediately and report the incident.

Try to remember what the other driver said after the accident.

Report your accident to your local police station at the very latest within 24 hours. Seek medical attention as soon as possible following your accident. Make sure you are properly examined even if you don’t feel injured. Injuries like whiplash are often not readily apparent because of adrenalin, shock and trauma. Take photos of your injuries if they are visible.

How to claim through our direct access barristers

Firstly you can telephone or e-mail us. There are certain time limits so it is better to be prompt. Call Gerard Quirke on 07983 565690.

Our direct access barristers are able to advise you whether or not you have a good claim. Barristers are specialist advocates and lawyers with a deserved reputation for probity. We  will be happy to talk to you about the process and to answer any questions or queries you may have. If you are successful in your claim, our fees will be recovered from the other side, that is to say from the insurance company of the person who caused the accident. So the process costs you nothing. 

What Happens If The Other Driver Wasn’t Insured?

If you have been injured or your property has been damaged by an uninsured or untraced driver, you may still be able to make a claim for compensation via the Motor Insurance  Bureau or MIB.

You should have reported the accident to the police within 5 days of the accident, to your own insurance company and making enquiries with the registered owner of the vehicle.

You must be able to identify the vehicle which caused the property damage to make a claim.
 
£300 excess will be deducted from claims made under the untraced driver provisions.
 
You must register your claim within 9 months of the accident.  Ask us how our direct public access barristers can help you enter a claim with the Motor Insurance Bureau.
 
Compensation is awarded for pain, suffering and the consequent inability to do things as you did before. You are also entitled to recover expenditure as a result of your injuries e.g. the need to pay others to do things you could previously do yourself.

You may be entitled to loss of your future income, travel costs to and from your doctors, and prescription charges.

If you would like to discuss a claim call Gerard Quirke on 07983 565690.