Cycle accidents can damage your health and ruin or delay plans. Without financial help, many people who have been injured whilst cycling may face a worrying future.
Injuries to cyclists can have a devastating impact on families and an individual’s finances. In the most serious cases the injured cyclist may spend months in hospital. Rehabilitation to ensure the maximum physical and psychological recovery possible can take years. Less serious injuries can also have a devastating impact, particularly where the injured person has injured themselves to such an extent that they cannot carry out their job and have no or a much reduced income. The self employed and those with uncaring employers are vulnerable, particularly if they have no or limited savings. In such cases riders whose injury was not their fault not only suffer injuries but also worrying financial hardship.
Bike Claims: It’s time to Fight Back.
In this section you discover how to make a successful bike claim and the practical steps you can take to improve your chances of successfully bringing a bike claim.
Claims arising from bicycle accidents can improve the lives of ordinary people by the recovery of compensation for injuries sustained and all financial losses suffered. Moreover the bringing of claims can improve road safety by ensuring timely repairs to road and cycle paths.
Top Tips about Bike Claims
To reduce cycle injuries improved bicycle accident prevention is essential. Yet if the worse happens, you need to know how to act in a crisis.
This section focuses on the aftermath of an accident: when things go wrong. In only a few minutes you can give yourself the best chance of successfully benefiting from a bike claim.
Maximising compensation in cycle claims
Every year, cyclists make up around 5% of road deaths even though only 0.8% of miles travelled by vehicles are by bicycle. Cyclists are 12 times more likely to be killed or injured on the road than people in cars (figures from BRAKE). These figures highlight just how vulnerable cyclists are as road users. Hazards can come in many different forms. Vehicles, poor road surface or obstacles in the road, mechanical faults, pedestrians and animals can all cause cycle accidents that can have devastating consequences. If you have been involved in a cycle accident, speak to Macks Solicitors to discuss submitting a claim for compensation.
How Can Bike Claims Help My Family?
As bike claims lawyers, every day we have people walking into our offices who are living with the terrible consequences of being injured through negligence. These include people who have been scarred/maimed for life after not being given the correct safety equipment at work. Or people making bike claims after being hit and suffering injuries as a result of bad driving.
Bike claims: A Step By Step Guide
Many people understand that wearing a helmet and following the highway code gives them a better chance of avoiding an accident. But what about if the worst happens, and you are involved in an accident whilst cycling on the roads?
