The most common road traffic accident we come across is where a negligent third party driver has collided with the rear of an innocent victim’s motor vehicle. Other common road traffic accidents involve head-on collisions, or where a vehicle has emerged from a side road and collided with the side of another vehicle. The purpose of this blog is to discuss another common type of road traffic accident; those which occur on roundabouts.
For most people, dealing with roundabouts is fairly straightforward, especially the smaller ones. For others, it is a traumatic experience. Nevertheless, it is both confident and nervy drivers who get caught up in road traffic accidents on roundabouts through no fault of their own.
Here are a few examples:
- A negligent third party driver pulls out onto the roundabout whilst you are already correctly proceeding on it and collides with your vehicle
- A negligent third party driver is going to fast when approaching a roundabout and does not notice you in the queue of traffic waiting to get on the roundabout, and collides with the rear of your vehicle
- A negligent third party driver suddenly changes lanes on a roundabout having realised that they are in the wrong lane but fails to notice the presence of your vehicle and causes a collision
Those are just a few of the types of accidents which can occur on our roundabouts everyday.
If you have been involved in one of the above circumstances and feel that the accident was not your fault, where you have been injured, you may be entitled to make a claim for compensation; you should now be seeking advice from a quality injury lawyer who specialises in dealing with road traffic accident claims. An expert injury lawyer should be able to tell you straightaway whether you have a potential claim.
If you are advised that you have a claim for compensation, it is particularly helpful, if you want to get the ball rolling on your claim straightaway, if you have as many details as possible with you. For example, the exact accident location, the negligent third party driver and motor vehicle details, and perhaps any witness details you may have. With this information, and your own, an injury lawyer can begin the claims process straightaway – within a couple of weeks you may well have an admission of liability for your accident, and it would just be a matter of getting your claim valued and settled as quickly as we can.
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