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Company vehicles are used intensively on the roads and include cars, vans and wagons. Most business owners rely on their vehicles to ensure that business keeps running and more often that not expensive heavy goods vehicles are out on the road for long hours, often 7 days a week. Not surprisingly these vehicles are involved in some serious collisions and whilst HGVs account for less than 10% of all road accidents they do account for more than a quarter of all fatalities. Given the disparate weight of a heavy goods vehicle compared to a car that is not a surprising statistic. A lorry accident claim frequently involves substantial compensation for serious injury, usually to the occupants of smaller vehicles unless there are two wagons involved which is often the cause of driver fatality.

At least a dozen people are killed each week in an HGV collision and it’s usually the occupant of a car or light van that’s been hit by a much heavier and larger vehicle that sustains most injuries with the HGV driver often escaping unharmed. These issues are extremely serious with about 20,000 injuries each year from accidents involving HGVs many of which end up as a lorry accident claim in a court of law. In addition there are at least twice as many fatalities in accidents involving an HGV than in accidents involving just cars or light vans.

Collisions involving wagons often end up in the courts and a lorry accident claim can be very substantial both in terms of the human cost and in regards to property being the cost of very expensive vehicles and often expensive loads. Insurance companies are inclined to defend due to the finances involved specifically the substantial payments due in the event of a loss and fleet managers push their insurers for a defended case in order to keep their no claims bonus in effect.

The most important aspect in any lorry accident claim relates to evidence. Almost all lorries are required to carry a tachograph which is akin to a simplified ‘black box’ that is carried on aircraft. It records in detail the vehicles speed, acceleration and deceleration and can be used to prove braking times, distances etc. This does provide great assistance in reconstructing the actual events that occurred prior to and immediately after a collision. The information can be used by an accident reconstruction expert in conjunction with powerful software that is available to build up a realistic picture of the accident that can be used as evidence in a court of law to support the claimants case

Our solicitors operate exclusively using the no win no fee scheme. We pay compensation in full with no deductions. Our claims are totally risk free and, win or lose there is no charge. We do not ask you to fund or finance your claim as it proceeds and we only use specialist lawyers who are members of the Law Society panel of personal injury experts.