Guide To Hit And Run Personal Injury Claims

Guide To Hit And Run Personal Injury Claims

If you have been the victim of a hit and run accident where the other celebration is unsung or untraced the MyClaim personal injury squad can help you secure the personal injury compensation you deserve.
The second motor insurance notice ( 84 / 5EEC ) stated that each partition state of the European Union was required to set up or authorise a body charged with the task of compensation at elementary up to the minimum limits required to bruised property or personal injury caused by an concealed vehicle or uninsured vehicle.
For those people who far-off personal injuries and losses as a reaction of an far driver they would ordinarily have no way of gaining compensation. Know onions is however the Untraced Drivers Agreement 2003.
When making a claim under the Untraced Drivers Agreement the applicant needs to okay with certain conditions.
The agreement applies where the death or live injury to a person or damage to any property caused by the use of a motor vehicle on a road or other public place in Great Britain and if the applicant cannot ascertain the person who appears to be liable.
The accident must have been reported to the police within 14 days. If the claim is limited to property damage only it must be reported within 5 days of the event of the accident.
Satisfactory evidence ( akin as a crime amount ) must be produced when making the application to the Motor Insurers Bureau.
Time limits also resort to to Untraced Claims. If an applicant is to stand any chance of recovering compensation the Motor Insurers Bureau must be notified within a word of 3 agedness from the convocation of the accident. Like all other personal injury claims the Claimant / Applicant will be stature barred if a claim is not made within this turn habitus.
Where thinkable photographs of the accident scene should be touched and the names and addresses of any witnesses should be sterling uncherished.
In fear of funding, costs are undeveloped to a donation only from the MIB. On this inauguration a Conditional Fee Agreement ( No Win No Fee ) cannot be entered significance. Hit and Run claims are much conducted under a squeak fee agreement whereby a standard of the damages awarded is retained as costs.
If you are involved in an accident whereby the Defendant was driving a stolen vehicle and failed to discontinuation, an application should be made to the Motor Insurers Bureau in agreement with the Untraced Drivers Agreement.
If the vehicle is stopped and the driver identified, the registered insurers of the vehicle are still in control to indemnify the victim.
In this instance any witness details should be noted down and the police should be called.
Photographs should also be taken of the stolen vehicle and the accident scene.
The MyClaim personal injury gang have over 20 oldness experience of handling these claims. If you have been the victim of a hit and run accident please contact us by wadding in the online claim articulation or by calling our 24 hour helpline on 0800 731 2586.