Road Accidents Involving Emergency Vehicles
Were you unlucky enough to suffer injuries in road accidents involving emergency vehicles? If the answer is yes, you may be eligible to make road accident claims. All road users including emergency vehicle drivers have a duty of care to other users of the road. Although emergency vehicles must follow the same principles as other road users, the nature of their work means that under various circumstances they may need to ignore traffic signals or drive at high speeds. If you or a loved one has suffered injuries caused by road accidents involving emergency vehicles, you may be eligible to seek compensation for the damages that you have suffered.
As with other types of road accidents, it is important for the victim to prove that the accident he got involved in was caused by an emergency vehicle. The victim must be able to prove that the driver of the emergency vehicle was negligent in his duty of care and his negligence caused the accident.
However, road users also have a duty to pay attention to warning signals given by emergency vehicles. When warning signals are displayed, road users must take appropriate actions such as giving way to the vehicle or pulling off the side of the side. Sometimes, emergency vehicles have to ignore traffic signals or have to make unusual manoeuvres to answer an emergency call and other road users must do what they reasonably can to allow them do to so.
This means that if a person has failed to take reasonable actions following warning signals displayed by emergency vehicles, he may be held partially responsible for any accident that has taken place. It may not be possible to claim compensation if it cannot be established that the driver of the emergency vehicle had been negligent in his duty of care.
Claiming For Compensation
Whether you suffered injuries as a driver, a passenger or a pedestrian, you may be able to make a road accident compensation claim if it can be proved that someone else was responsible for the accident. Road accidents involving emergency vehicles are not uncommon, but it is often difficult to prove liability. If you have suffered injuries in an accident involving an emergency vehicle through no fault of your own, contact us today and we will assess your claim without any cost to you. If it can be established that someone else was responsible for your injuries, we can help you pursue a claim on a No Win No Fee basis.
To get in touch with our specialist road accident claims solicitors, give us a call on our free phone number or simply complete our online claim form. Apart from taking the risk out of making road accident claims, we also guarantee that you will receive 100% compensation without any deductions if your claim is successful.
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