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Drivers have a legal duty to drive safely to avoid injury to other road users, including their passengers. Whether the accident was caused by the driver of the vehicle you were in, another driver or a third party, such as the highway authority, as an injured passenger you are likely to have a claim.
Road accidents can leave passengers of cars, motorcycles, buses and other vehicles with devastating injury. Severe disability affects every aspect of the injured person and their family’s life.
If you or a family member have been severely injured in a road accident, our personal injury solicitors can usually secure immediate funding from the driver’s insurers for rehabilitation to maximise recovery. We have the skills and experience to help injured RTA passengers obtain full compensation, make their best recovery and receive the necessary support to rebuild their lives.
Speak to our personal injury solicitors
It costs nothing to talk to us to find out about making a passenger injury claim for yourself or a member of your family. You can contact us by telephone or by email for free, confidential advice from a specialist personal injury solicitor. In serious injury cases, we often visit our clients in the hospital or at their home if they are unable to get to our offices.
We will ask you to tell us briefly about the accident and injury. We will advise you about your time limits and whether we can help you make a claim. Your solicitor will discuss with you how your claim will be funded and advise, fully and clearly, how that works and what it will mean for you. We offer a range of funding options, but most of our clients’ claims are handled on a ‘no win no fee’ basis.
We will put your claim to the defendant individual or organisation whose negligence caused your injury and we will handle all communication on your behalf. The defendant’s insurers will usually handle the claim on the defendant’s behalf and will be responsible for paying any compensation. Once we are in contact with the defendant’s insurers, we can begin to secure the necessary rehabilitation and specialist support to meet the injured person’s immediate needs whilst we proceed with the claim.
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Our client was riding pillion on a motorbike which was being driven close to the car in front, when the car suddenly changed lanes in heavy motorway traffic. The car clipped the motorcycle as it changed lanes, causing the front wheel to flip and the motorbike came to rest on the central reservation.
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Kim handled my personal injury claim after a car accident with immeasurable expertise and compassion. Boyes Turner arranged every part of my private rehabilitation, which greatly improved the speed and quality of my recovery. Each stage of the litigation process was dealt with efficiently and succinctly. This was then always explained without using unclear legal jargon. On both health and financial levels, I would be in a far worse position without Kim’s invaluable input. I cannot recommend this firm enough.
Almost 5 years ago my son suffered a life changing brain injury accident. A new life for everyone, so many unknowns so many difficult decisions. I met Claire and the team shortly after the accident. So many questions answered but more than that, amazing lovely people. Claire has been guiding me and the family throughout this ordeal with such compassion, there every time I needed her we couldn’t of asked for a nicer person. I have met many others within Boyes Turner and all have been genuine lovely people, I’m now working with Ruth and Lindsay from the court of protection. Again, I can't say enough about them amazing lovely people. They truly do want the best for my son and they did and continue to do so.
I approached Claire Roantree of Boyes Turner in regards to making a claim about a workplace burns injury. It was something that had scarred me physically and mentally and taken a huge toll on the lives of me and my family. Claire wasted no time in finding out what happened and made sure I was treated by known experts and quickly finding an answer to my burns scarring and how I could be treated to help manage my pain. Claire also helped me by appointing a psychiatrist to understand my situation and help me cope with post traumatic stress disorder. As well as taking as much stress of the claim away, she was thorough in every situation, making sure I had the best possible claim, and handled it all expertly, I am so very grateful to her and her team. They have helped guide my life back into a positive direction and I can't thank her enough!
Kim and team at Boyes Turner were a patient and stabilising force though a multi-year case. This case was littered with trauma and upset from the beginning, and exacerbated by mis truths and rewriting of the demonstrable facts from the opposition. Kim guided me carefully through the process and helped to neutralise the negativity coming from the opposition throughout.
The last 6 years since my incident have been so difficult for my mental health and general life When I chose Boyes Turner, I was expecting just a solicitor to take my case forward. What in fact I actually got is a solicitor who genuinely cared about what had happened to me and wanted to help me get justice. Without their support I would have probably given in and accepted what happened. I am so glad that I didn’t, now it’s over I am now feeling empowered knowing it wasn’t my fault. They have given me hope for the future. It is more than a job for Claire, she is caring and kind, and wants the best for clients. Thank you.
Passengers are usually able to claim compensation after if they have suffered serious injury in:
Passengers who have been seriously injured in a road accident (RTA) may have a claim against one or more defendants, depending on the cause of the accident. These can include:
Passenger injury claims often arise when one or more drivers has caused serious injury in an accident by:
Claims also arise after the council or highway authority or their employees or contractors cause an accident by:
Our personal injury solicitors specialise in claims involving severe serious injury and permanent disability. We recover compensation for passengers who have suffered life-changing injuries including:
We prepare each client’s compensation claim carefully to ensure that their compensation will meet their additional needs arising from their injury or disability. The amount of the compensation that can be claimed depends on the severity of the injury and disability and its impact on the injured person’s life, as well as their individual circumstances.
Passenger injury settlements may include compensation for:
In claims arising from fatal injury, we help the bereaved, dependent family claim compensation for their loss of the deceased’s income or ‘services’ (childcare, housework, driving, DIY etc), as well as funeral costs and a fixed, statutory bereavement award.
Yes. As a passenger you are likely to have a claim against the driver of the vehicle you were in/on, if they lost control of their vehicle, causing you injury. Depending on the cause of the accident, you may also have a claim against the highway authority.
Claims are commonly made for passengers who were injured in single-vehicle accidents when the car they were in, or the motorbike on which they were a pillion passenger, is driven into a tree or other object, rolls or swerves and leaves the road.
When a passenger suffers a life-changing injury in an accident caused by the driver of the vehicle they were travelling in, compensation can be the lifeline to rehabilitation and recovery, as well as meeting the injured person’s lifelong needs that have been caused by the accident, injury and disability. Even so, we understand that in situations where the accident involved friends or family, making a decision to claim is far from easy. We see this most often when passengers are injured by the negligent driving of a vehicle by friends or members of their family.
In these cases, where compensation and rehabilitation is vital for the injured passenger, it helps to remember that all drivers are required by law to have insurance. This means that all communication in response to any claim will be handled on the driver’s behalf by their insurance company, and it is their insurer who compensates their passengers and anyone else who is injured by their negligent driving.
In these situations, it helps to talk things through with our personal injury solicitors, who are highly experienced in acting for injured clients in claims involving family and friends. We handle these claims with sensitivity, compassion and care, and provide support for our client and their family, whilst ensuring that the injured person’s immediate need for rehabilitation and ongoing needs arising from their injury are met, along with compensation paid by the driver’s insurers.
As a seriously injured passenger, your compensation may be reduced if your own behaviour partially caused or contributed to your injury, but you may still have a substantial claim. For passengers, these situations include:
We recommend that any passenger who has suffered serious injury in a road accident should seek advice from our specialist solicitors before making their own assessment about the strength, weakness or value of their claim.
Find out more about how we recover compensation for seriously injured clients in claims involving contributory negligence.
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