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As a car driver myself I am often left bewildered about the actions and manners of certain other road users. Unfortunately we can only control what we do ourselves. Some road users (you come across them most days) always appear to be in a rush, like the type that overtake you despite the fact that you are travelling at the speed limit, or the type that drive ridiculously close behind your vehicle for no apparent reason.

Although frustrating, you just have to concentrate on your own driving at times. Obviously no one wants the inconvenience of dealing with an accident, even if you were not injured or it was not your fault. Any type of accident will likely cause inconvenience to you.
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This is a common quandary of people involved in accidents as a passenger when their friend or partner or relative is the driver at fault. As a passenger in a collision, you pretty much have a guaranteed claim in law. So if you are injured, you are owed potentially thousands of pounds in compensation.

But is it right to sue someone you know who is at fault? How might it affect them?
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Admittedly we have all had those moments where we think it’s clear to pull out of a side road and then had the shock of a vehicle coming past, leaving us glad that we didn’t decide to just press your foot down! Unfortunately, however, some people do end up pulling out and this can obviously lead to quite a nasty collision.

The Highway Code isn’t “law” but guidelines to govern how people should be driving on the road and as everyone has to take a theory test before being given a full driving license, everybody should know it. Under the Highway Code there is a section dedicated to junctions and this is what I shall focus on in this blog.
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If you have been passenger in a road traffic accident and have been injured by negligent driving, you may be able to claim for compensation. You can claim compensation from the driver of the car you were a passenger in, or from the driver of the other car, depending on who was responsible for the accident.

Passengers are normally seen to be an innocent party to the accident, and therefore it is very unlikely that passengers are seen as contributing to the cause of the accident. As such, innocent passengers normally have a very strong claim for compensation.
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Roundabouts are natural hotspots for accidents. Even the most confident of drivers can struggle with staying in the correct lane on a roundabout they’re not familiar with, and drivers also have a tendency to join a roundabout without correctly checking for oncoming traffic.

The major problem with roundabout accidents is that, on occasions, it can be difficult to tell exactly who is at fault. If someone goes in to the back of you on the entrance to a roundabout, or someone pulls out on you whilst you were already on the roundabout, the other driver should be at fault. But what about if the other diver changes lanes on a multi-lane roundabout and hits your vehicle? Or what if you go in to the back of someone because they sharply pull across you and cut you up?

In these circumstances, you may need to rely upon any of the following to prove your case:
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Most of us, at least those of us who drive, will have practised the emergency stop. Its part of learning to drive after all. But the question is when should it be applied and in what circumstances would it be unreasonable to perform an emergency stop?

Clearly an emergency stop is required and is reasonable in the case of an emergency, such as if a child or person ran out into the road.
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Accidents on roundabouts are one of the most common types of accidents we deal with here at The Injury Lawyers. A frequent cause of many roundabout accidents is when a motorist is in the wrong lane for their exit and position themselves incorrectly when travelling around the roundabout.

The Highway Code’s rules on roundabouts stipulates that you should take note and act on all the information available to you, when approaching a roundabout. This includes traffic signs, traffic lights and lane markings which direct you into the correct lane. You should be checking the lane markings and signage to ensure you are positioned correctly for your exit.
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Concertina collisions are more commonly known as “pile ups”. They involve more than 2 vehicles which have been shunted into one another.

When this happens on a motorway it can be a very serious, frightening and dangerous type of road traffic accident!

Usually, the innocent parties in this type of accident are stationary in traffic and the “at fault party” is the driver that notices the stationary traffic in front of them too late and impacts with the rear vehicle, who then shunts into the vehicle in front of them and so on and so on…
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Generally speaking if Driver B caused their vehicle to crash into the back of Driver A’s vehicle, then Driver B would be at fault.

This is, of course, a typical rear end shunt scenario whereby liability is usually attached to the driver who drove their vehicle into collision with the vehicle in front.

As a driver myself, this must be the correct decision as you have no control over the vehicle that’s driving behind you. However, in some strange and unusual circumstances, Driver A in the above scenario could be held at fault.
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If someone asked me what I considered to be a ‘dead cert’ for a claim for compensation, I would say a passenger claiming compensation for injuries they received whilst involved in a road traffic accident. 

A passenger would have to do something highly unusual, possibly extreme, to be considered to be at fault for causing an accident on the road.  Under current law, you can be compensated for any injuries you have got through no fault of your own, which is why passenger accident claims are often the most straightforward.
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