Bolton Car Accident Claims Solicitors – No Win No Fee Claims Guide
Bolton car accident claims solicitors guide
By Meg Sodha. Last updated 4th March 2022. If you’re looking for Bolton car accident claims solicitors to represent your claim following a road traffic accident in which you’ve been injured in within the last three years this guide explains what you need to know.
We have not included a personal injury claims compensation calculator on this page, but you could still use our calculator to get an estimate of what your claim is worth. This guide contains information such as:
- An overview of the expert medical examination you may be invited to undergo as part of your compensation claim for an injury sustained in a road traffic accident in Bolton, and how it can increase your chances of winning your claim.
- Information that explains why it is of critical importance that you select the best solicitor to process your personal injury claim for a Bolton road traffic accident, and how this could affect how much compensation you are awarded.
- Several short sections that detail some of the most frequent types of road traffic accidents that take place in Bolton every year.
- Several short sections that detail some of the most frequent types of injuries that are caused by road traffic accidents that take place in Bolton every year.
- A number of easy to understand tables that present some of the most important statistics about road traffic accidents in Bolton.
- An overview of the Conditional Fee Agreement (CFA) that Legal Expert bases its core service offering on, and how we believe this is the best service for helping you claim for injuries caused by road traffic accidents in the Bolton area.
We have aimed to include the information you need. However, if you get to the end of the page and you still have some questions that need answers, please call Legal Expert on 0800 073 8804 so that we can help you.
An advisor could assess your case to see if your claim holds validity. If it does, they could appoint one of our personal injury solicitors for Bolton to represent your claim.
Explore The Sections Below To Find Out More About Choosing Bolton Car Accident Claims Solicitors
- Can Bolton Accident Claims Solicitors Organise Medical Assessments In Your Local Area?
- How To Select The Right Road Traffic Accident Solicitor For Your Claim In Bolton
- Should You Base Your Decision On Reviews Of Bolton Car Accident Solicitors?
- Do I Need To Use Personal Injury Solicitors In Bolton?
- Car And Vehicle Accident Claims Our Specialist Road Traffic Accident Solicitors For Bolton Could Handle
- Frequently Seen Injuries After Road Traffic Accidents
- Car Accident In Bolton Statistics
- Bolton Road Traffic Accident No Win No Fee Solicitors
- Getting Started With Your Road Traffic Accident Claim With Personal Injury Solicitors For Bolton
- Helpful Links
Can Bolton Accident Claims Solicitors Organise Medical Assessments In Your Local Area?
In order to have the best chance possible of winning road accident compensation, you are going to have to prove just how bad your injuries were, and also whether they are likely to have a permanent effect on your life if the prognosis for a full recovery is bad.
Our car accident solicitors for Bolton could help. If you decide to work with our experienced solicitors, they can arrange for you to receive a local expert medical examination for free in the Bolton area.
The closest medical experts to Bolton who could help with this are:
Dr Taqi Zaidi
The Bolton Hub
Bold Street
Bolton
BL1 1LS
Dr Andre Brittain-Dissont
Regus Business Centre
120 Bark Street
Bolton
BL1 2AX
Dr Khalid Shehzad
1 Higher Bridge St
Bolton
BL1 2EW
How To Select The Right Road Traffic Accident Solicitor For Bolton To Represent Your Claim
If you’re looking to seek compensation for a car accident in Bolton with the help of a solicitor, it could be beneficial to ensure you choose the right one for your case.
Your local high street solicitor in Bolton might not be as experienced as others could be. Whereas if you choose experienced road traffic accident solicitors for the Bolton area, they could use their knowledge to help you build a strong car accident claim.
The effectiveness of your legal team won’t impact the total amount of compensation you receive if your claim is successful but having a team with experience handling these types of claims could help.
Should You Base Your Decision On Reviews Of Bolton Car Accident Solicitors?
In order to find the best road traffic accident solicitors for Bolton possible, you could check online review sites. The reviews can provide information on the services a legal firm or solicitor offers and how well they communicate with claimants throughout the claims process.
For more information on our personal injury solicitors for Bolton, you can read the reviews on our page.
Alternatively, if you’re wondering how much money you can get from a car accident settlement, call our team.
Do I Need To Use Personal Injury Solicitors In Bolton?
When you are making a car accident compensation claim, the location of your solicitor does not matter in the slightest. You can always use the phone or email to keep in touch with your legal team regardless of where they happen to be located in the UK.
Whilst there are advantages of having am easily accessible local Bolton solicitor on the case, it may be more beneficial to choose a solicitor with experience handling car accident claims similar to your own.
They could help you put forward a strong compensation claim for an injury sustained in a Bolton road traffic accident.
Car And Vehicle Accident Claims Our Specialist Road Traffic Accident Solicitors For Bolton Could Handle
To answer the question, how much is the average settlement for a car accident in Bolton? it depends on how severe your actual injuries are. And of course, the severity of the injuries will depend on the severity of the actual accident that caused it.
However, in order for your claim to hold validity, you must show that another road user breached their duty of care and caused you harm as a result.
Legal Expert processes hundreds of road traffic accident claims each year on behalf of our clients, we have explored some of these in the following sections.
Car Crash Compensation
If you are involved in a Bolton road traffic accident, then when it comes to making car accident claims, you will need to prove that the accident was caused by another road user’s negligence. This is the single most important factor in holding a valid claim. You have to prove liability. If you cannot do so, then there may be no valid route to making a claim.
Passenger Vehicle Accident Claims
When it comes to making car accident claims as a passenger in a vehicle who was injured during a road traffic accident in Bolton, you need to understand that you have exactly the same legal rights as the driver of the vehicle to claim against the third party that caused the accident. Legal Expert can assist you in this.
Call our team to see if our road traffic accident solicitors for Bolton could help.
Taxi Passenger Or Driver Accident Claims
As the passenger of a private hire vehicle such as a minibus, minicab or taxi, you have certain rights regarding your eligibility to claim compensation for an injury caused in a Bolton road traffic accident. As long as you can prove the taxi driver is liable, solicitors in Bolton can help you claim compensation.
Bus, Coach, And Airport Transfer Vehicle Accident Claims
Whenever you are travelling on some form of mass transit public transport, such as a local Bolton bus service, a national coach service, or even an airport shuttle,you are owed a duty of care under the Occupiers Liability Act 1957.
If you should become the victim of an injury due to a public vehicle being involved in a road traffic accident in Bolton, call our team. Legal Expert could help you make a bus accident claim and seek compensation from the company that operates the public transport service in Bolton.
Claims Involving Pedestrians
As a pedestrian, you are owed the same duty of care as a driver, rider or passenger. Therefore, if another road user breached the duty of care they owed you causing you to sustain an injury, you could be eligible to make a compensation claim for a road traffic accident.
For example, you might have been walking down a street and a driver, operating a vehicle under the influence of alcohol, hit you after mounting the pavement. As a result, you may have sustained a moderate arm injury and a severe back injury.
For more information on making car crash claims or pedestrian accident claims for your injuries, call our team.
Collisions From The Rear
There are various types of road traffic accidents that happen in Bolton each year, such as rear shunts. These low-speed accidents can be extremely dangerous sometimes. They could cause road traffic accident related whiplash injuries. If you suffer an injury due to being shunted in the rear whilst in traffic in Bolton, Legal Expert can help you to pursue personal injury claims to seek whiplash compensation.
Accidents And Injuries At A Roundabout
Bolton has some truly chaotic roundabouts at major road junctions, and these are natural hotspots for road traffic accidents. Inexperienced or distracted drivers can cause a serious accident on a busy roundabout in Bolton during rush hour. If you have incurred an injury in such an accident, then Legal Expert will be able to assist you in making a personal injury claim for your injuries.
Frequently Seen Injuries After Road Traffic Accidents
Legal Expert is a legal firm that operates a whole team of personal injury lawyer. Our solicitors see the same types of accidents caused by road traffic accidents time and time again. Below, we have given an overview of some of the most frequent injuries and medical conditions we see sustained in Bolton road traffic accidents.
Neck Sprains & Whiplash
Whiplash is a non-specific injury to the neck that can have a range of symptoms from muscle pain, through to severe headaches. Mild whiplash will clear up within a few weeks, but a serious case could see the victim facing a recuperation period of several months, even more in the most extreme cases. Legal Expert is experienced in processing whiplash claims and our solicitors for Bolton could help you make a whiplash claim.
Neck & Lower Back Pain
Your neck, upper back and lower back are at risk in any high-speed road traffic accident in Bolton. The level of blunt trauma a victim of a serious crash encounters is high enough to fracture even the large vertebrae of the lower back. The upper back and neck are even easier to damage. If you have injured your back in a Bolton road traffic accident, our personal injury solicitors for Bolton could help you process a compensation claim for you.
Serious Or Internal Injuries
Motorcycle riders are considered to be vulnerable road users and are often at risk of sustaining serious injuries.
Serious injuries such as internal organ damage, loss of an arm, leg, hand or foot, and also severe damage to the brain, are all common injuries sustained by motorcyclists and other road users in a high-speed accident.
Our motorcycle accident claim specialists for the Bolton area could help.
Car Accident In Bolton Statistics
In Bolton, there were around 8 fatalities during 2020, this is according to summary data from the Great Manchester reported road accident and casualties. The data also highlighted 208 slight injuries and 35 serious injuries.
According to the Reported Road Casualties In Great Britain: Annual Report 2020, there were around 1,460 reported road deaths during 2020. It’s important to note that this includes 4 months of a national lockdown. Furthermore, there were around 115,584 casualties of all severities.
As you can see, the statistics provide an insight into the frequency with which car accidents occur and the nature of the injuries that a victim might sustain.
Bolton Road Traffic Accident No Win, No Fee Solicitors
Legal Expert offers residents of Bolton access to our experienced team of car accident claims lawyers in an entirely financially risk-free way.
We provide No Win No Fee car accident solicitors to manage all types of road traffic accident claims in Bolton. The way this works, is that you pay nothing at the time we take your claim on, and even if it takes many months to settle your claim, you don’t pay any ongoing fees.
When Do Claimants Pay Costs Or Charges?
If you use our No Win No Fee claims service to pursue road accident compensation in the Bolton area, the agreement you enter will stipulate when fees are paid.
If your claim is successful, you will pay a success fee that’s capped by law. The success fee will be deducted from your compensation.
However, if your claim fails, no success fee will be taken.
For more information about working with our solicitors for Bolton on a No Win No Fee basis, call our team.
Getting Started With Your Road Traffic Accident Claim With Personal Injury Solicitors For Bolton
Are you ready to start claiming compensation following a car accident in Bolton? If you are, you should call Legal Expert at the number below. We will spend some time asking you a range of questions, and once we have the answers, we will understand your injury and the accident that caused it much better. You will then have access to the car crash solicitors that we think are the best suited to make your claim for you.
If you have any questions about car accident claims, or how car accident solicitors for Bolton work, then you just need to give us a quick call on the number below. When you do, one of our team will be available to answer your questions and explain how the Legal Expert claims service works.
Although you are free to use local Bolton accident lawyers to make car crash claims, you should consider calling Legal Expert on 0800 073 8804 today. We are specialists in all types of personal injury cases, including injuries caused by road traffic accidents in Bolton.
Helpful Links
Some road safety information specific to the Bolton area has been published here:
Bolton road safety information
Visit the Highway Code below to understand your duty of care as a road user:
To report a road traffic accident in Bolton to the Police, you can use these contact details:
To get professional medical treatment for your injuries, you can visit the local Bolton NHS hospital:
Bolton NHS hospital information
The following guide explores how to make a fatal accident claim on someone’s behalf following a road traffic accident.
Death And Fatal Road Accident Compensation Claims
This link will send you to a guide to making compensation claims for leg injuries:
The following guide explores the process you can take to make a drink driving accident claim:
Drink Driving Car Accident Claims
Visit the following guide to learn more about when you could make a claim through the Motor Insurer’s Bureau.
We hope this guide on finding the best car accident claims solicitors for Bolton has helped. For more information, call our team on the number above.