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Many people choose to use coaches in order to visit family members and reach holiday destinations throughout the UK. The majority of these people have a safe journey, however, there are some people who unfortunately experience personal injury during their trip and have to claim coach crash compensation.
It is the coach driver's responsibility to drive safely for the benefit of passengers and other road users. If the coach is involved in a road traffic accident and the coach driver is found to be at fault and therefore liable, any injured passengers may claim compensation for their pain, suffering and loss of earnings.
Seatbelts
Legislation has been passed by the Department for Transport, making it a legal requirement for any coaches made or used on the 1st October 2001 or after that date to have seat restraints for passengers. As a result, many coaches are now equipped with seatbelts, but coaches manufactured before 1st October 2001 may also still be functioning and as such, the legislation not having applied to them, they might not have safety restraints on board.
If the coach driver causes the vehicle to crash through negligence and dangerous driving, leading to passengers sustaining a personal injury, those not wearing seatbelts, if they were available, may find it difficult to make a successful coach crash compensation claim.
Although the coach driver should prompt passengers to use seatbelts at the beginning of the journey, their legal responsibility only rests with those individuals who are under 14 years of age. At 14 years and over, it is the responsibility of that individual to take the initiative and use the seatbelt provided, just as it is their responsibility in a car.
Large vehicles
Coaches are much larger vehicles than cars, vans and even some lorries and as such they may give a sense of security to those inside, but due to their height they can actually be more unstable on the roads should the driver turn abruptly (especially at speed) or should there be powerful winds. Coaches are not as aerodynamic as some other vehicles and fast-moving winds cannot move around them as easily as a car. The driver should take extra care in bad weather in order to decrease the risk of coach accident. By minimising speed drivers can lessen the effects of the wind's speed on their coach.
Seeking coach crash compensation?
With YouClaim, receiving 100% compensation could be easy and we explain the legal process to you in plain English. Our team of no win, no fee solicitors are experts in their chosen fields and have a great track record when it comes to winning claims.
Our services won't cost you a penny and we never take a cut of your compensation, so if your claim is successful you will gain 100% compensation.
To find out if you could be entitled to compensation for personal injury after a coach crash, simply fill in our short online claims form and one of our advisers will contact you concerning your claim. Alternatively, you could use live help to chat to a team member over the internet about your case. If you would rather speak to someone over the phone, ring us on 0800 10 757 95.
If a coach you were travelling in was involved in a road traffic accident, resulting in personal injury, then you could make a coach crash compensation claim today.
