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 hullabaloo is unnoted or untraced the MyClaim personal injury crew can help you secure the personal injury compensation you deserve.
The second motor insurance dictate ( 84 / 5EEC ) stated that each installment state of the European Union was required to set up or authorise a body charged with the task of compensation at primeval up to the minimum limits required to grazed property or personal injury caused by an foreign vehicle or uninsured vehicle.
For those people who spread out personal injuries and losses as a offshoot of an anonymous driver they would ordinarily have no way of gaining compensation. Practiced is however the Untraced Drivers Agreement 2003.
When making a claim under the Untraced Drivers Agreement the applicant needs to sign with certain conditions.
The agreement applies where the death or unaffected 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 distinguish 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 circumstance of the accident.
Satisfactory evidence ( like as a crime numeral ) must be produced when making the application to the Motor Insurers Bureau.
Time limits also appropriate 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 second childhood from the gig of the accident. Like all other personal injury claims the Claimant / Applicant will be stature barred if a claim is not made within this stint figure.
Where undeveloped photographs of the accident scene should be lured and the names and addresses of any witnesses should be peerless disconsolate.
In respect of funding, costs are immature to a write-off only from the MIB. On this birth a Conditional Fee Agreement ( No Win No Fee ) cannot be entered interestedness. Hit and Run claims are ofttimes conducted under a excuse 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 brick wall, an application should be made to the Motor Insurers Bureau in assent with the Untraced Drivers Agreement.
If the vehicle is stopped and the driver identified, the registered insurers of the vehicle are still to blame 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 filler in the online claim conformation or by calling our 24 hour helpline on 0800 731 2586.