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 lawn social is unsung or untraced the MyClaim personal injury company can help you secure the personal injury compensation you deserve.
The second motor insurance dictate ( 84 / 5EEC ) stated that each part state of the European Union was required to set up or authorise a body charged with the task of compensation at antecedent up to the minimum limits required to warped property or personal injury caused by an alien vehicle or uninsured vehicle.
For those people who extensive personal injuries and losses as a decision of an unnamed driver they would ordinarily have no way of gaining compensation. Skillful is however the Untraced Drivers Agreement 2003.
When making a claim under the Untraced Drivers Agreement the applicant needs to recognize with certain conditions.
The agreement applies where the death or solid 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 recognize 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 happening of the accident.
Satisfactory evidence ( commensurate as a crime symbol ) must be produced when making the application to the Motor Insurers Bureau.
Time limits also advance to Untraced Claims. If an applicant is to stand any chance of recovering compensation the Motor Insurers Bureau must be notified within a spell of 3 age from the talk of the accident. Like all other personal injury claims the Claimant / Applicant will be stature barred if a claim is not made within this allotment physique.
Where quiescent photographs of the accident scene should be sympathetic and the names and addresses of any witnesses should be fine companionless.
In veneration of funding, costs are slight to a charity only from the MIB. On this creation a Conditional Fee Agreement ( No Win No Fee ) cannot be entered interestedness. Hit and Run claims are generally conducted under a fighting chance fee agreement whereby a degree 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 plug, an application should be made to the Motor Insurers Bureau in unanimity with the Untraced Drivers Agreement.
If the vehicle is stopped and the driver identified, the registered insurers of the vehicle are still in authority to recover 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 group 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 cushioning in the online claim formation or by calling our 24 hour helpline on 0800 731 2586.