![]() I’ve been injured in a traffic accident outside of work. You can be the victim of a road accident whether you were driving, a passenger, on foot, riding a bicycle or horse when you sustained the injury.Ģ. The law defines a road traffic accident as a collision involving a vehicle on a road or in a public area that has caused damage or injury to a person, animal, another vehicle or property. What is the definition of a road traffic accident? Things trade union members need to know about making a Road Traffic Accident claim with Thompsons Solicitorsġ. Whether your personal injury occurred as a result of a road or car accident which took place either in or out of working hours, if it took place in the last three years, Thompsons Solicitors can help you to make a claim for compensation – free of charge. Your dedicated union legal service also provides you and your family with road traffic accident compensation advice if you’re injured outside working hours as the driver or passenger in a car crash, a motorbike rider, a cyclist or a pedestrian. It’s a common misconception that trade union legal services only cover you for accidents or injuries that occur on work time. Our road traffic accident lawyers use specialist knowledge and decades of experience to help union members injured during the course of their duties as bus or coach drivers, taxi drivers and HGV or lorry drivers, to claim personal injury compensation. ![]() Injury 3.We refuse to act for insurance companies and use the full weight of our experience and expertise to support injured road users. (a) Vehicle design (b) Road infrastructure Direct Consequences of Accidents:ġğatality (Death) 2. Education and awareness about road safety.Weather conditions: Fog, snow, heavy rainfall, wind storms, hail storms. Road Conditions: Potholes, damaged road, eroded road merging of rural roads with highways, diversions, illegal speed breakers. Vehicles: Failure of brakes or steering, tyre burst, insufficient headlights, overloading, projecting loads. Passengers: Projecting their body outside vehicle, by talking to drivers, alighting and boarding vehicle from wrong side travelling on footboards, catching a running bus etc. Pedestrian: Carelessness, illiteracy, crossing at wrong places moving on carriageway, Jaywalkers. How different factors of Roads contribute in Accidents:ĭrivers: Over-speeding, rash driving, violation of rules, failure to understand signs, fatigue, alcohol. Detrimental effects of traffic on environmentġ. One should use safety gears of prescribed standard and tie them properly for optimum safety. Two wheeler deaths have been drastically reduced after use of helmet has been made mandatory. Safety Gears keep you intact and safe in case of accidents. Wearing seat belts and helmets doubles the chances of survival in a serious accident. Wearing seat belts and helmet has been brought under law after proven studies that these two things reduce the severity of injury during accidents. Use of seat belt in four-wheeler is now mandatory and not wearing seat belt invites penalty, same in the case of helmets for two wheeler drivers. ![]() The ability to judge the forthcoming events also gets reduced while driving at faster speed which causes error in judgment and finally a crash.Īvoiding Safety Gears like seat belts and helmets: A vehicle moving on high speed will have greater impact during the crash and hence will cause more injuries. A slower vehicle comes to halt immediately while faster one takes long way to stop and also skids a long distance due to law of notion. At high speed the vehicle needs greater distance to stop i.e. Faster vehicles are more prone to accident than the slower one and the severity of accident will also be more in case of faster the severity of accident will also be more in case of faster vehicles. Increase in speed multiplies the risk of accident and severity of injury during accident. ![]() But when we are sharing the road with other users we will always remain behind some or other vehicle. If given a chance man is sure to achieve infinity in speed. It is a natural psyche of humans to excel. Most of the fatal accidents occur due to over speeding. ![]()
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