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Road
Traffic Accidents . Accidents at Work . Slipping Accidents .
Medical Negligence
Factsheets
Road Traffic
Accidents
The law requires all vehicles to be insured and for the insurers of
those vehicles to pay compensation to the injured party where liability
can be established.
However, you
could still make a claim for compensation even though the driver was not
insured.
If you were injured in an accident - either as a driver, passenger,
cyclist or pedestrian - you may be able to recover compensation for your
injury and other losses from the driver of the vehicle responsible for
the accident. Sometimes, it might be necessary to claim against the
vehicle owner too (if he is not the same person as the driver).
By law, every driver is required to take reasonable care when driving.
If the driver of the vehicle you were in or the driver of the other car
did not take reasonable care, you may have a claim against him for being
negligent. The Highway Code sets out a standard of driving which all
drivers have to achieve.
A point to note is that,
if
you were a passenger, you could make a claim even if the driver of the car
you were in was at fault.
As a passenger, you are unlikely to be blamed for the accident, unless
you did something to cause it, e.g. you grabbed the steering wheel.
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