CAR ACCIDENT PERSONAL INJURY COMPENSATION CLAIM

Our solicitors will deal with a car accident personal injury compensation claim on a no win no fee basis. If the other driver has been identified then compensation for the pain and suffering of personal injury and all other losses is always paid in full. Our lawyers do not require you to pay anything throughout the course of the claim. No win no fee claims handled by our lawyers are genuinely risk free and we give an absolute written guarantee that you will never have to pay one penny to us, now or in the future and that nothing will be deducted from your compensation.

With an increase in speed accidents become more likely, and when they do occur, injuries sustained by victims become more serious and are likely to be fatal. As the vehicle speed increases, so does the thinking distance, and drivers need to look and concentrate much further ahead. A delay of just one second in reacting to an emergency could mean the difference between life or death.

The distance needed to stop a vehicle increases dramatically at higher speeds. This is because the braking distance increases with the square of the speed. An increase in speed also makes it harder to correctly estimate the speed of other traffic. The result of this is errors of judgment, wrong decisions, accidents and substantial car accident personal injury compensation claim awards.

To place speed in perspective the table below converts mph and kph into feet/second and metres/second. It also shows the overall stopping distance for the various speeds. Please note that these stopping distances apply to a vehicle which is properly maintained and in good condition, the road surface will be dry and the driver will not have consumed any alcohol or taken any drugs. If the road surface is wet then the braking distance will increase three fold, if it's icy it will increase ten fold. The value of car accident personal injury compensation claim awards has been shown, on average, to be in direct correlation to the combined speeds of the vehicles.

Excessive speed does not necessarily mean travelling too fast on the open road, 25 mph in a town centre or near a school could be 'too fast for the conditions' even though it is within the speed limit. Remember, a speed limit is the absolute maximum allowed, not a target to be aimed for.