Have you been injured when you were a passenger in a car or on a bus? Good news – you have one of the best chances of a successful claim for compensation.
Passenger injury claims are one of the easiest to assess because it is highly unlikely you were to blame for the accident. Really, unless you pull the handbrake or were severely distracting the driver at the time of the accident, you cannot be at fault for the accident. Say you were the passenger in a car when someone drives into the back of that car, how can you be at fault? You can therefore be compensated for any injuries you get as a result.
Here are a couple of examples of good passenger claims. You are on a bus which is involved in a crash, the crash is not your fault, you can seek compensation from whoever was at fault, e.g. the bus driver or the third party driver. You pop out to the shops with a friend and someone drives into the rear of your friend’s car whilst you are waiting at traffic lights and you get whiplash, you can claim compensation for this whiplash.
The best way to get the maximum compensation you deserve is to instruct an expert injury lawyer with loads of experience in road traffic accident claims. What they will do is take all your information and get the ball rolling on your claim for you. A Claim Notification Form will be submitted online and then the other side will only have 1 business day to acknowledge it and then 15 business days to admit or deny liability. Once this is sorted it’s just a matter of getting medical evidence and settling your claim which shouldn’t take long at all.
It’s important to know then that if you were a passenger and have been injured you have a great claim for compensation and you are entitled just like everyone else who has been injured is to make a claim. It doesn’t matter than you weren’t driving or that it wasn’t your vehicle that was involved – you can still make a claim from the negligent party’s insurer. Some people are also concerned that they don’t want to be suing a parent or a friend if it was them who caused the accident – you won’t be, you will be dealing with the insurer and it will be the insurer who pays the compensation.
For some further free legal advice give us at The Injury Lawyers a no obligations call today on 0800 634 75 75. Make sure you ask about how you will get to keep 100% of any compensation you receive and why not see if we can arrange for you to get some private medical treatment at no cost to yourself!
