Pedestrian Accident Compensation Claims

Being involved in a road accident as a pedestrian can be very serious, with the potential for long-term or even life-changing injuries. When a pedestrian accident is caused by someone else’s negligence or a lack of proper roadside safety, getting compensation can help to provide financial stability and cover medical costs.

As experts in handling pedestrian accident compensation cases, our specialist personal injury lawyers at Hudgell Solicitors are here to guide you through the claims process and fight on your behalf for the compensation you’re entitled to.

Pedestrian Injury Claims

Not only are increasing numbers of vehicles and cyclists using the roads, but they are doing so with ever-more distractions impacting on safety, such as the increasing use of mobile phones behind the wheel leading to the potential for more pedestrian accidents.

This places an extra emphasis on the need for pedestrians to ensure they are alert and aware of danger at all times. However, despite taking all possible precautions, pedestrians are still vulnerable on the roads and very often are the victim of either careless, poor or outright dangerous driving.

How Do You Make a Pedestrian Injury Claim?

Our personal injury specialist will guide you through every step of making a pedestrian injury claim, from gathering evidence to build your case, to any legal proceedings that may be required. There are generally four main steps to the pedestrian accident claims process.

Step 1: Assessing your pedestrian accident claim and gathering evidence

The first part of the process is making sure we fully understand your experience, working closely with you to establish where the liability lies and gathering any necessary evidence. This might involve contacting witnesses or police reports if available, ensuring we know every detail of the incident.

Step 2: Assessing your ongoing medical and support needs

Being injured in a road accident as a pedestrian can result in severe injuries that might need long-term treatment, not to mention the potentially life-changing emotional trauma. This is an important factor in working out how much to claim for, ensuring medical costs will be covered, as well as any other support or rehabilitation you might need.

An independent medical expert will assess your injuries to determine the care and treatment you need, and we’ll liaise with the insurance of any responsible parties to make sure the costs are covered following a pedestrian accident.

Step 3: Calculating the pedestrian accident compensation claim

After establishing all the details of your pedestrian accident, along with the medical care and any other ongoing support you’ll need, we can calculate the level of compensation to claim for.

As well as medical costs, this will include other factors such as loss of earnings due to being off work or no longer able to work at your current job, and damage to your possessions such as a phone or laptop.

The agreed figure will be put to the opposing party for them to accept or come back with a counter offer. If an agreement can’t be reached on a fair settlement, the case might need to go to court to be ruled on by a judge. The level of compensation will also be decided on by the judge, based on the cases put forward.

Your pedestrian injury lawyer at Hudgell Solicitors will be with you during every step of this process.

Step 4: Case conclusion

Once everything above has been concluded, the compensation sum can be awarded and paid to you, so long as your pedestrian accident claim has been successful.

If the claim has been unsuccessful, you won’t have to pay a penny as we handle all pedestrian injury claims on a no win no fee basis.

How much will my claim cost?

All pedestrian accident cases taken on by Hudgell Solicitors are handled on a no win no fee basis. This means that you will not have to pay any money up front and there will be no financial risk if your case is unsuccessful.

If your case is successful, you will only be expected to pay a contribution to your solicitor’s fees once the case has been resolved. The costs paid are usually a percentage of the compensation awarded and will be agreed before your case is carried out.