hello there in this video I want to take a look at car accident claims and road
traffic accidents and essentially give you some tips as the bottom you should
do in a situation an unfortunate situation where you may be involved in a
car wreck or traffic accidents in Ireland account for seventy-five percent
of personal injury claims characters can lead to all sorts of injuries whiplash
spinal injuries broken limbs back pain soft tissue neck injuries and so on you
know as well as I do the range of injuries that are possible arising from
a road traffic accident the use of the roads by society also leads to other
types of road traffic accidents for example you might have you might be a
perfectly innocent passenger in a car involved in an accident the poor state
of the roads might have caused you an accident or caused you damage you might
be a cyclist it could be an accident or injury arising from animals or livestock
on the roads and then there's obviously pedestrian personal injuries what should
you do then if you have been in a car accident firstly into a fast your head
so you should need there's any doubt with all your mind about your well being
a physical well-being and you should see a doctor or medical practitioner or go
to hospital you should report the accident to the grd even if they don't
come on CeCe they already have a needs to kolkata station and they will record
the fact that you've come in and reported this accident you may be glad
of this later on is for example somebody decides to Welsh out of liability
you need to guess just to follow up on us the driver of the car beulah car me
in and force the flush of the accident hold his or her hands up and say you
know and completely at fault and I deal with everything but once they go to get
advice from friends or neighbors or family or a solicitor then they may well
change the mind about liability and they may well change the mind about clay
ability when explique to their insurance company so that's something that you
need to kind of cover yourself with even as a guardian or mouse even if you're
happy enough or believes that the other party will sort you out and remedy
everything as well as they can then you should still report the accident to the
erd you should get the registration number of the other vation get the name
address contact details and insurance details of the other driver you should
contact the solicitor as well just for animation content consultation you
should let them know what happened and maybe get a bit of a steer you do not
need a concert and solicitor to submit an application to the injuries board or
it might be no harm for your own peace of mind and so on just to be sure about
you know that you want to do it yourself if that's what you choose to do it might
be no harm is to have a consultation with a solicitor and have a brief chat
about what is involved you should take photographs on the scene and take
photographs of the bacons with your mobile phone hopefully you have a mobile
phone on you most people do and you should check the insurance disc of the
elevation what should you not do well you should not admit liability because
the terms and conditions of some insurance policies state that you will
invalidate your policy of insurance if you admit liability liability is
something that should be really looked at later on by other people or the
parties and you know by the insurance company and perhaps by the grd don't
leave the scene of the accident little details have been exchanged and/or
ligardi have been out if you're unfortunate enough then we an accident
with an unstressed or uninsured driver there is a body the motor insurers
variant which will ultimately deal with an exam you will need a selector though
for this because I think that or a solicitor will need to make certain
contact make certain submissions to the mi VI in a particular prescribed format
that set out in legislation as to how to process a claim for an uninsured or on
race driver so I would recommend you contact the solicitor for this do we
need to use a solicitor than generally in relation to a personal injury claim
no we certainly do not you cannot submit the claim yourself to the angels board
and deal with it yourself if you did you the solicitor he or she would advise you
though of each step or at each step of your accident claim he or she would also
advise you on medical reports actually the actuarial report Eastern Edison and
obviously can deal with the or she'll deal with the injuries board and the
respondent and the insurance company if necessary and assist with all elastic of
the personal English team you do not need of using solicitor that's entirely
a matter for yourself some people would be more comfortable doing so because
ultimately they may well be an assessment by the injuries world it may
well be accepted by the insurance company and you will then be faced with
having to accept or reject us that's the first thing and you need some well I
would suggest you probably need some advice to do that from somebody who
might have a bit of experience in the area the other thing is the question of
if the insurance company for example do not agree to the assessment or if they
do agree to the assessment and then don't agree to the amount ultimately
you're gonna need a solicitor them to issue of personal injury someone's and
pursue the thing through the courts this is that's how is has to be done
ultimately if the assessment is rejected or if the other party does not agree to
an assessment then gain this board will simply wash their hands of us they will
issue a letter of authorization to you to pursue the matter through the courts
and they will close the file so in those circumstances clearly you will need
insulin my name is Terry zaria vacillation
enfield county bees and they are my contact details there on the screen I
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