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 carousing is uncelebrated or untraced the MyClaim personal injury bunch can help you secure the personal injury compensation you deserve.
The second motor insurance edict ( 84 / 5EEC ) stated that each lot state of the European Union was required to set up or authorise a body charged with the task of compensation at key up to the minimum limits required to scratched property or personal injury caused by an distant vehicle or uninsured vehicle.
For those people who extensive personal injuries and losses as a sequence of an unrenowned driver they would ordinarily have no way of gaining compensation. Ace is however the Untraced Drivers Agreement 2003.
When making a claim under the Untraced Drivers Agreement the applicant needs to shake on with certain conditions.
The agreement applies where the death or veritable 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 discern 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 incident of the accident.
Satisfactory evidence ( congeneric as a crime symbol ) must be produced when making the application to the Motor Insurers Bureau.
Time limits also bestow to Untraced Claims. If an applicant is to stand any chance of recovering compensation the Motor Insurers Bureau must be notified within a title of 3 caducity from the convention of the accident. Like all other personal injury claims the Claimant / Applicant will be stature barred if a claim is not made within this juncture habit.
Where implied photographs of the accident scene should be stimulated and the names and addresses of any witnesses should be accomplished comfortless.
In veneration of funding, costs are fleeting to a subscription only from the MIB. On this spring a Conditional Fee Agreement ( No Win No Fee ) cannot be entered consequence. Hit and Run claims are often conducted under a opening fee agreement whereby a rate 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 stay, an application should be made to the Motor Insurers Bureau in harmony with the Untraced Drivers Agreement.
If the vehicle is stopped and the driver identified, the registered insurers of the vehicle are still culpable to recoup 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 crew have over 20 senescence experience of handling these claims. If you have been the victim of a hit and run accident please contact us by packing in the online claim die or by calling our 24 hour helpline on 0800 731 2586.