Road Accidents are Reducible, not Preventable!

Claim firm gets a large number of road accident claims for compensation. Do you know that each year around 95% of fatal accident injuries affect youth between 15 - 44 years of age? A latest research reveals that males are more likely to die of road traffic accident injuries than females. It is impossible to prevent road accidents; however, certain steps can reduce accidents from occurring more often. Transport authority, health, education and police must join hands to ensure road safety, by creating public awareness. It is important to consider all factors that are involved in road accidents.

Haste Makes Waste! Leave early to be on Time

The most common factor is driving speed. It is better to set out earlier for reaching a destination on time, instead of accelerating. Increasing the velocity, to reach the place on time can cause road traffic accident injuries to the driver and other people on the road.

Road Accident Claims Can Help Coping Up With Life Changes

Road traffic accident is an accident that takes place on a road, pavement and even footpath. The accidents can involve one or more than one vehicles. Road traffic accident injuries can change one’s entire life, within seconds. These changes are physical, emotional as well as psychological. It becomes hard for a person to deal with all the sudden and drastic changes in his or her life. At times, entire family suffers from a road traffic incident, with no one to look after and support.

If it is not your Fault, then you Should not Suffer

In case of disability, a person is unable to carry out his or her professional duties or enjoy social activities, as before. A person who sustaining permanent leg injuries due to being handicapped following a road traffic accident injuries in UK, will not only be depended on a wheel chair, for the rest for his or her life but will also have problems at work.

Are Work Injury Claims Increasing in UK?

No work place is accident-proof. Despite of strict health and safety laws, daily accidents are occurring at different work places in England. We receive large number of work injury claims at ABS Law. This not only shows the increasing number of accidents but also that people in United Kingdom are now becoming aware that they have a right to get compensation for work accidents, injuries, sufferings and financial losses.

Did you know that England is ‘Whiplash Capital of the World’?

It will be interesting for many to know that England is popular all over the globe as ‘whiplash capital of the world’. This is mainly because daily more than fifteen thousand Whiplash accident compensation claims are made. Most of these claims are of minor injuries and stress.  

Whiplash injuries result due to sudden acceleration or retardation, stretching the spine soft tissues, joint ligaments and muscles, with forceful movement of the body. There is a common myth that Whiplash injury occurs when the vehicle is moving in high velocity, which is not true. Even a car moving at 8 miles per hour can cause Whiplash injury to a person. Mostly Whiplash injuries occur from rear and side-impact car accidents, work accidents and other accident types.