Please help- Accident

Stevie_Palimo

We do seem to have adopted the American way of claiming for every single thing possible these days well I say these days it has been happening for some time now.


I do wonder where it may stop as people seem to want money for nothing, Oh my hair cut was a inch too short so I will sue you, I found a leaf in my strawberries so I will sue as well.


Why not just accept the fact that things happen and only claim when it really warrants a actual claim for compo.

Singh90

Hi, thanks for your replie.

BTW its damage claim, not injury. there was no injury.

So, I guess I was at fault.. premiums goes up

chrisw

Singh90 wrote: »

There was no way for me to see the towed car, neither the towing nor the towed car had its hazard lights on.

It would have been illegal for the towed car to have it's hazard lights on. Again, from the Highway Code:-

116

Hazard warning lights. These may be used when your vehicle is stationary, to warn that it is temporarily obstructing traffic. Never use them as an excuse for dangerous or illegal parking. You MUST NOT use hazard warning lights while driving or being towed unless you are on a motorway or unrestricted dual carriageway and you need to warn drivers behind you of a hazard or obstruction ahead. Only use them for long enough to ensure that your warning has been observed.
Law RVLR reg 27

burlington6

If the car wasn't being towed, would you still it wasn't your fault? The gap wasn't big enough regardless.

AdrianC

Your car is around six feet wide. So for you to pull out once the towing car was out of your path completely, the towed car would have been less than six foot away. With lights on. In a lit road. But you didn't see it...?

topdaddy_2

Did the tow rope have a flag?

pogg000

topdaddy wrote: »

Did the tow rope have a flag?

OP didn't see a car, unlikely to have seen that

topdaddy_2

pogg000 wrote: »

OP didn't see a car, unlikely to have seen that

Very true, totally clutching at straws but every little helps!

davefairbrother

Hi
I need some help with a accident my brother has had at work.. He is 55 years old and a lorry driver, he recently fell from the lorry as the handle he was holding to get off broke, He unfortunately broke/fractured his hip, fractured arm and caused stress/injury to his eye/eye socket
The Accident happend around 7 weeks ago and is he obviously off sick, His employer is paying his wages and now with the type of injury he has i strongly doubt he will ever be able to drive a lorry again, can we seek compensation from now to his retirement age? Surely no one with a fractured hip/arm which has had metal bolts added to can be expected to drive for 8-10 hours and jump in and out of lorries ?

Please can someone advise what he should do here? Will we get compensation for the injuries and for the future? surely he cannot be expected to find another job in another trade with his injuries and at his age?

Please can you help and it will be strongly appreciated, we are stressed and have a mortgage to pay which he worries about if his employer stops paying him
Also do we need to advise health and safety ?

mchale

As others have said it's your fault, but 1 point what were you doing on the left side of the road if you were turning right? you should have been as close to the centre of the road as possible without crossing the white lines (if any where on the road), seems to be a lot more drivers like you who do not know where to position their cars at junction's, crossing's etc (rant over)