At The Injury Lawyers we only deal with personal injury law; as such we have become experts in our field having dedicated all our time and attention to personal injury claims. One of the most common accident types are road traffic accidents. This is hardly surprising giving the number of cars on our roads and given that there is always going to be human error in play. Fortunately, in a lot of road traffic accidents, people are able to get out injury free; but where they have been injured, if the accident was not their fault, they could obtain compensation for these injuries. In this blog I am going to focus on rear end shunt road traffic accidents.
Rear end shunts are one of the most frequent road traffic accidents. This is where a vehicle collides with the back of your vehicle and shunts you forward. For example, you may be stationary at a set of traffic lights and a negligent third party driver fails to heed the presence of your vehicle and slow down in time, and instead goes in to the back of your vehicle. Alternatively, a rear end shunt accident may occur where the vehicle behind you is stationary too but a vehicle collides with the rear of that vehicle and shunts it into your vehicle and causes you injury; this is called a concertina collision.
A typical injury arising from a rear end shunt accident is whiplash. This is a soft tissue injury that occurs when your neck is suddenly and forcefully jerked out of position. If someone collides with the rear of your vehicle, you will likely be jolted forward and your seatbelt will kick in, bringing you back. This sudden jerking movement is what will cause you your whiplash injury.
So, what can you do if you have been injured in a rear end shunt accident? Well the good news is that you almost certainly have a winning claim for compensation. This is because the person who collided with your vehicle has been negligent and should have heeded the presence of your vehicle on the road. If you were a passenger in a road collision, you have basically a guaranteed successful claim because there is no reason for you to have been at fault for the accident. What you should therefore do is seek the free advice of an expert injury lawyer who will be able to assess your potential claim and explain how to get the ball rolling.
Where an injury lawyer has advised that you have good prospects of obtaining compensation for your injuries, you will be pleased to know that the process of getting compensation is straightforward and can be done and dusted in just a few short months. This is because the Defendant will have only 15 business days to acknowledge and admit or deny liability once your claim is submitted, and when liability is admitted, obtaining medical evidence to support your claim and agreeing your compensation can be sorted in just a couple of months or less.
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