Car and traffic accidents resulting in personal injury of different severities are fast becoming a common aspect of a Briton’s life. In the past few years the numbers and figures have risen significantly to provide an idea of how much importance this concern is! Road accident has probably risen to its pick. The number of people turning up for an accident claim is alone to prove this notion true.

Statistics

While in the year of 1926 there were 4886 fatalities in about 124000 cases, in 2008 number of victims have risen significantly to 202333 (slight injury), 26000 (serious injury) and 2538 (killed). Although no general trend of growth or decrease was detected, the highest figure since 1926 was 8609 in 1940.

The number of fatalities fell for almost all types of vehicles in 2008, 12% for car occupants, 11% for pedestrian, 16% for motorcycle and 15% bicycle (pedal) with respect to the previous year.

Even for the third business quarter (Q3) of 2009, the number of facilities of road accident was down by 7%. Still the figure is frightening with the British government introducing more cautiousness against the accident at road casualties.

Reasons

There may be several reasons behind this horrifying number of accident roads in the UK. An RAC survey once found that most British drivers think they are better at driving than drivers of other nationalities. Also nearly all drivers who were at crash, did not accept that the accident was their mistake.

Increased confidence may be one of the leading factors for higher accident road statistics for UK. Other factors contributing may be driver factors, roadway factors, vehicle factors, weather factors and a combination of the above ones. There are also staged or fake claims that contribute to the higher number of motor accident claims and traffic accident compensations in UK.

Accident Road Compensation Claims

Despite the fall in number of total accident car and casualties, in every 2 minutes a UK citizen experiences a car crash. Numbers of motor accident claims and traffic accident compensations are still higher than green range. The Association of British Insurers (ABI) statistics show that people claiming for compensations are of significant level in the sense of absolute figures.

This may be a reason for increased awareness in people for legal procedures and the advantages they can provide. The above argument is most prominent in cases of no win no fee type claim arrangements.

Leading effects of traffic collisions at UK are personal physical injuries and injured cars. Physical injuries occur form all sort of accidents (small and large cars, motorcycles, pedal cycles and even pedestrians) and may result in serious injuries such as whiplash or so. In these cases, it is important to consult with a personal injury lawyer before taking any action.