If you have suffered physically, mentally or financially, you should consider making an accident compensation claim. For free telephone advice from a specialist personal injury solicitor just send the online contact form. Our lawyers will asses the strength of your claim and will advise you on your potential award of compensation without any further obligation.
We recognise that clients expect more from us than our professional expertise and experience and that we operate as service providers in a highly competitive market. We strive for excellence in providing sound advice coupled with a rapid, proactive and friendly service utilising all available technological aids. Our pedestrian accident compensation claim solicitors are able to offer you sound no nonsense advice. If you would like free advice just use the contact form and a specialist personal injury solicitor will give free legal advice without any further obligation.
No one wants to be involved in an accident, but when they do happen we may be able to help if the accident occurred in the last three years and was as a result of another party's negligence. We have a dedicated department specialising in personal injury claims and our lawyers will assist you in an understanding and sympathetic manner. This includes not only helping you through the legal process of a pedestrian accident compensation claim, but also ensuring that you receive timely and suitable treatment and rehabilitation. We carry out an assessment from the facts provided by the client, and, if we are confident there are reasonable prospects of success, we can offer to handle the claim on a no win no pay basis.
Pedestrians are the most vulnerable group of road users exemplified by the fact that most victims on a statistical basis are either elderly or are children. To succeed in a pedestrian accident compensation claim it is necessary to prove negligence which means that it must be shown that the driver of the vehicle involved in the collision has driven with an unreasonable disregard for the safety of other road users. In the case of pedestrians there is a very high duty of care placed on vehicle drivers due to the unequal and dangerous position that the pedestrian may be in compared to the protected environment of the driver. In cases where there is little evidence to prove negligence we are able to call upon the services of accident reconstruction experts who, by the use of sophisticated computer programs can recreate accident scenarios to assist in the proof of lack of care by the vehicle driver.
Hundreds of pedestrians are killed on Australian roads every year and thousands of people also suffer injuries which require medical treatment, the majority of which are caused by collisions with domestic motor cars. In most cases the car driver will ultimately be held to be negligent by a court of law in a pedestrian accident compensation claim and an accident solicitor will be able to obtain a personal injury settlement :-
pedestrian fatalities represent 10% of transport related deaths
50% of pedestrian fatalities involve alcohol consumption
children 15 years represent a disproportionately high level of injury
25% of the children’s road accident fatalities were pedestrians
elderly adult pedestrian deaths and injuries are double over represented
pedestrian fatality rate for males is more than twice that of females
pedestrian deaths rates are higher in rural areas than urban areas
most injured pedestrians succeed in personal injury compensation claims