University accidents and personal injury solicitors
Going off to begin your first term at university can be one of the most exciting times of your life. Often away from home for the first time, with no parents to control you and thousands of similarly minded teenagers in the vicinity, it's guaranteed to be an amazing experience.
Without doubt, you'll never forget your time at uni and it'll play a big part in shaping you for the rest of your life. There's guaranteed to be laughs galore, probably a few tears too, and thanks to ridiculously cheap drinks at the Union bar, copious hangovers too.
But, if you're not careful, an unfortunate accident and the need to contact personal injury solicitors could just be a not so nice memento of your time at university.
Apologies for putting a dampener on things, especially if you're one of those freshers who've just embarked on your uni adventure. Apologies too if you're a parent reading this as no doubt you're worried enough as it is with your little darling having flown the nest. But all we're saying here at YouClaim is go easy.
Every year, especially during the carnage that is freshers' week, hundreds of students all over the UK find themselves hurt and injured because things go a little too far. Sadly, some of these injuries are so bad that those involved have no choice but to get in touch with a personal injury solicitor to make a compensation claim.
Drink-driving
A recent story to hit the news headlines was that of a student in Coventry who suffered massive personal injuries whilst hitching a lift home from a nightclub in the boot of a car. The driver of the vehicle was drunk and lost control, causing the poor lad curled up in the boot to suffer injuries that'll affect him for the rest of his life.
This youngster is shortly to launch an accident claim at the High Court but, no matter how much injury compensation he receives, there's no way he'll forget his tragic time at university.
Doing things that can be described as anything but sensible seem to go hand-in-hand with being a student and, in order to highlight the risks, YouClaim did a bit of research. They asked a couple of ex-students, all now tax-paying professionals in their mid-twenties, if they could recall any dangerous antics that occurred during their time studying. The results were truly shocking.
Laundrettes
One of the lads, a sociology graduate, remembers a time when he and his housemates visited an on-campus laundrette to wash the dirty clothes that had been building up under the bed for, quite literally, months.
Armed with fistfuls of pound coins, they crammed the washing machines full of dirty boxer shorts and bed sheets that were long past their best before date, and passed the time waiting for the spinning to stop by kicking a pair of socks around the laundrette.
Soon bored with his makeshift game of football, the ex-student we spoke to, for reasons that only he knows, decided to see if he could fit inside the drum of one of the tumble dryers. Despite the fact that he was at least six feet tall, he managed to squeeze inside and a friend shut the door.
Luckily, after a minute or so of winding his mate up by pretending the catch was stuck, the friend opened the door and let him out. Now you can't get a much better example of stupid behaviour than that, and it could so easily have ended in tragedy.
It's questionable whether a personal injury solicitor would have been able to help this young man's family if the door had got stuck or if he had been tumble dried, but in all honesty, and not wishing to be judgemental, a 19-year-old should probably know better than to climb inside a tumble dryer.
Fireworks
A 19-year-old should also know better than to launch fireworks at his next door neighbours' house, but that's what another of the former students we asked admitted to. Like a little kid, he gave the reason for this crazy behaviour as boredom' and something to do', before going on to explain how he and his housemates, inebriated by a few cans of cheap cider, sent rocket after rocket crashing against the brickwork of the house next door.
One of these fireworks even found its way through an open window and exploded on the landing, leaving scorch marks on the paint and a distinct smell of gunpowder for the rest of the term. Amazingly, those inside (students, needless to say) thought this was the funniest thing they'd ever seen and, instead of being angry that their house was under attack, started launching fireworks back at their neighbours.
It was a miracle that nobody was hurt during this crazy battle and there could have so easily been the need for an injured student, most likely an innocent passer-by, to contact a personal injury solicitor to make a compensation claim for a lost eye or severe burns.
Shower doors
One drunken student night that did end in a trip to the hospital involved the last graduate YouClaim spoke to. Now a respectable looking businessman, it's hard to imagine him as a 20-year-old history student, riding down the stairs, gloriously drunk, on top of a broken-off shower door.
But that's apparently how this gent suffered a broken arm and a fractured cheekbone after returning home to his halls following a night dancing to cheesy tunes in the students' union. He told us how the shower door had just fallen off' a few days before and, having drunk one too many snakebites on the night in question, thought it would be a great idea to try a bit of drunken surfing.
So, with the help of a couple of equally intoxicated housemates, he managed to haul the door to the top of the stairs and perched, can of lager in hand, on top of it. A hefty shove and the door, along with its drunken cargo, careered down the stairs, shedding students at every bump.
Our history undergraduate somehow managed to cling on but had no chance of surviving unscathed when the out-of-control door smashed into the wall at the bottom of the stairs. The alcohol might have helped to numb the pain a bit, but there was no doubt that this youngster had caused himself some serious damage.
And so it was he ended up in A&E, arm in plaster and face a mess. He seems to have learned his lesson, however, and vows that he'll never again ride down the stairs on top of a shower door which can only be a good thing.
Cost-free personal injury solicitors can help you
These are but three examples of some of the things that this particular group of students got up to, and with over 2.5 million studying at university right now, who knows what sort of bizarre behaviour is going on at this very moment?
Here at YouClaim we're by no means old fuddy-duddies. The last thing we want to do is spoil the fun of being away at uni, but all we want you to do is be safe and not end up injuring yourself.
If you have been hurt, however, and think you could be in a position to make an accident claim for compensation, get in touch with us today. We're the no win, no fee experts and our panel of personal injury solicitors contains some of the best legal brains in the land.
We never charge any of our customers a single penny and so you needn't worry about spending any of that precious student loan on legal costs or fees. In addition, everything you win will be yours to keep. Now you can't say fairer than that.
If you want to take advantage of our panel of leading personal injury solicitors, give YouClaim a call today. You can ring us any time of the day or night on 0800 10 757 95 and our experienced claims handlers can talk you through the process of making a compensation claim.
We also offer a call back service, meaning we can give you a ring at a more convenient time, or you can discuss your accident claim over the internet with one of our experts by using our popular online chat service.
So, whether you call us on 0800 10 757 95, or use one of the other methods, make sure you get in contact with YouClaim if you need a personal injury solicitor to help you make a totally cost free no win, no fee claim for compensation.
