Road Traffic Accidents (RTA’s)

Improving the general public’s awareness is one of the most important ways to reduce road traffic accidents. The World Health Organisation estimates that RTA’s represent the 3rd leading cause of ‘death and disease’ worldwide. Numerous countries have launched road safety campaigns to try counter this statistic.
Most drivers believe that they are less likely to be involved in and accident than other motorists. By focussing on national and regional statistics people often feel no or little compulsion to act facts like;the greatest incidence of RTA’s occur in London on urban roads, whereas rural a-roads in Wales account for the most accidents in the UK just don’t hit home and provide no link to the average motorist.

Every year somewhere in the region of 3,500 people are killed on Britain’s roads and 40,000 are seriously injured. Government led initiatives such as “Think!” which aimed to curb traffic accidents and raise public awareness to the problem have little effect.

There has been a dramatic rise in road accident compensation claims in recent years primarily due to the fact claimants have realised just how easy it is to claim. Many believe that this is directly related to the sharp increase in insurance premiums, but insurance companies swear blind that this is not the case. When you go to renew your insurance premium bare in mind that £30 out of each premium goes directly to sorting out the mess left by uninsured drivers that fail to purchase insurance each year.

Accidents occur for many reasons but tend to include the following; the drivers mood and behaviour, weather conditions, passenger activities such as consuming alcohol, drugs and speeding.

If you were involved in a Road Traffic Accident then you may be entitled to compensation. To make your personal injury compensation claim is easy. If your involved in an accident it is crucial that you try to take photographic evidence of the scene if possible, take names, numbers and addresses of all those involved. If someone leaves the scene of the accident without providing these details its imperative that you report the incident to the police immediately, so that an incident report number can be generated. If your accident involved a car that drove off afterwards then you will need to make an untraced driver claim to the Motor Insurers Bureau. The Bureau also offers compensation for those who were injured by motorists without insurance documentation through the uninsured driver claim.

When claiming for car accident injuries it is imperative that you seek medical attention as soon as possible, so that the event is sufficiently documented, and provable. Many claimants lose there case simply because they failed to attend a hospital or visit a G.P. to discuss the pain they were in. Medical notes go towards proving that an actual injury was sustained from the road accident, they also go to establishing the amount that should be awarded to the accidentally injured party. If you’ve been involved in an accident then it is possible to claim and accident consult can help.



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