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Motor manufacturers and road safety experts take passenger safety very seriously. The main cost in a road traffic accident is, of course, the enormous emotional impact of death and serious personal injury caused, but in monetary terms it is the ensuing car accident claim that an injured party will bring which takes a huge financial toll on insurers.
Car accident claims are made not only by the occupants of vehicles, but by pedestrians as well.
According to Thatcham, the Motor Insurance Repair Research Centre, children are more likely to be killed or seriously injured as pedestrians than as car passengers. In 2009, 62 per cent of children killed on roads in the UK were pedestrians.
More than 7,000 pedestrians are killed annually and around 150,000 suffer serious personal injury on EU roads. In the UK, more than 6,000 pedestrians are killed or seriously injured each year.
Autonomous Emergency Braking (AEB) to prevent car accident claims
Sometimes drivers are less likely to see a pedestrian than they are another vehicle, and so the likelihood of a car accident increases, however, AEB is a collision avoidance system designed to automatically apply the brakes when a crash is imminent.
Sensors at the front of the car survey the roadway ahead and if a potential collision is calculated different levels of braking will be applied. When a collision is estimated with a far-time span partial autonomous braking will be applied – if the collision is deemed imminent, full autonomous braking will occur.
The AEB system will be activated when it is determined that the driver has not applied brakes sufficiently to stop the vehicle and where he/she has not attempted to steer around the detected obstacle.
Some AEB systems are able to give pre-impact warning signals to a driver, so that as the threat of an impact increases, either audible, visual or haptic (tactile) warnings will be activated to afford the driver as much time as possible to react and, hopefully, avoid the collision without autonomous intervention.
Thatcham says that AEB systems are not designed to completely halt crashes in all scenarios, but they can hopefully mitigate the number of car accidents and the level of personal injuries sustained.
Making a car accident claim with YouClaim
Sadly, motor vehicle safety systems alone are unlikely to wipe out the risk of suffering a personal injury in a car accident which was not your fault, and it is at such a time that you might require the services of an experienced compensation solicitor who will be committed to achieving just recompense for your pain and suffering, and lost earnings.
When you contact YouClaim you can rest assured that your car accident claim will be handled by leading personal injury solicitors who always have your best interests at the forefront of their work ethic and who will strive to achieve for you the most satisfactory conclusion possible in your claim for compensation.
Call YouClaim today on 0800 10 757 95, use our mobile-friendly number 0333 240 0871 or contact us via the internet by using our Live Help or Callbackfacilities.
Whichever method you use to contact us you can be certain that our legal specialists will do their best to help you and our fully qualified and accredited car accident claim solicitors will be ready to represent you should you decide to go forward with you claim.
