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The statistics detailing road accidents in the UK involving vans and trucks must make sobering reading to the drivers of these vehicles. In 2003, there were 28,864 road accidents in which at least one vehicle was either a van or truck. These accidents resulted in a high number of van and truck drivers suffering serious personal injuries, 9958. Tragically, a startling 1,119 of these drivers were killed.
As all but a statistically insignificant minority of these road accidents involved professional drivers behind the wheel, the issue of road accident compensation can occasionally prove complex.
In the more complex cases the employer of the driver will be held liable for road accident compensation. This is because a driver and the public are owed certain road safety rights by the employer.
Sometimes, in this kind of road accident claim, the issue of road accident compensation can merge with the laws of work accident compensation.
For example, the driver of a heavy goods vehicle who is injured in a road accident because of the negligence of an employer will be entitled to claim road accident compensation through the work accident compensation insurance policy of that employer.
Likewise, any other road-users or passengers who suffer personal injuries in a road accident as a result of this same negligence will probably have their road accident compensation paid out by the negligent employer.
What are an employer's responsibilities?
An employer has an obligation to carry out regular safety checks on a vehicle. An employer also must ensure that their drivers are not forced to work more than a set number of hours.
It is also vital that they keep informed of the health of their drivers and are alert to relevant medical checks.
Furthermore, employers are obligated to meet certain other criteria. Doing so will reduce the likelihood of one of their vehicles causing a crash. An added benefit is a lessening in the probability of having to pay out road accident compensation.
Where a driver is self-employed, he or she must meet the same standards with equal satisfaction or face the possibility of being liable for road accident compensation.
For more information please see: www.thinkroadsafety.gov.uk
What are a driver's/employee's responsibilities?
The driver too has certain obligations. He or she must perform regular vehicle safety checks, be alert to the weather conditions, always drive safely and appropriately and have a good knowledge of the route to be taken.
Failure to do so could result in their negligent actions being at the centre of any resulting road accident compensation claims.
Weather can play a major part in driver safety. Many no win, no fee solicitors report handling a high number of road accident compensation claims resulting from accidents involving heavy goods vehicles in wet conditions.
Their experience is mirrored in the statistics. In 2003 there were a total of 26,300 road accidents involving HGVs in wet conditions.
Other weather phenomena too, such as fog, can be a road accident risk. In the same year there were 1,518 road accidents in foggy conditions.
Drivers should also take great care to be aware of pedestrians and cyclists. The turbulence created by an HGV traveling at high speed past cyclists or pedestrians could be enough to make them lose control or fall over.
The same statistics reveal that 2,474 pedestrians were hit by HGVs in 2003. Shockingly, 650 of these were either killed or seriously injured.
The vast majority of those pedestrians and cyclists injured in these accidents contacted personal injury solicitors with a view to seeking road accident compensation.
Making a compensation claim with no win, no fee solicitor
At YouClaim we proudly believe that we are among the leading road accident compensation claim specialists in the UK.
So if you have, through no fault of your own, suffered personal injuries in a road accident, we are the right people to help you claim compensation.
Our panel of no win, no fee solicitors have years of experience in the field of road accident compensation litigation.
In fact, in partnership with us, our no win, no fee panel have forged a resounding success rate in settling claims for road accident compensation.
But when we only select the best personal injury solicitors to join our panel, it is what we have come to expect.
When you make a road accident claim with us, you will never, at any time, have to pay any costs or fees to either us or the opposing side. Win or lose, no fee it's our guarantee.
So why not get in touch with us today?
Discuss your claim live on e-chat, fill out an online claim form or, to speak to a legal advisor now, call 0800 10 757 95.
