Head & brain injuries from road traffic accidents are very common. The human brain is very vulnerable to injury in a collision.
Pedestrians are particularly at risk of suffering from a head or brain injury from a road traffic accident and in very general terms, the faster the impact speed, the worse the head or brain injury.
At The Head Injury Site we understand from many years experience of working with individuals after head injury just what that can mean.
Understanding brain injury
In cases of very serious head injury, the severity of the injury may be obvious soon after the incident. However, sometimes it is not obvious that there has been a brain injury, because early medical treatment often focuses on stabilising the injured patient and their physical injuries such as broken bones. The person who has been injured, and their family, may not fully understand at an early stage about their head injury nor know what to expect. Often, the effects of a mild or moderate head injury are not fully recognised until that person tries to get back to their normal lifestyle.
After a road traffic accident the first concern for many people will naturally be to get the right medical treatment. If you have suffered from a head injury, it may be a while before you can be discharged home and even then, you may face ongoing difficulties with many different areas of your life which can impact upon your family, your relationships, your work and your quality of life.
Claiming compensation for a head or brain injury
If you have been involved in an accident on the road that was partly someone else’s fault, the law can help you to claim compensation for your injuries and other financial losses that you suffer as a result. After a head or brain injury, it is vital that you seek specialist legal advice from experienced solicitors as soon as you can.
Our specialist services
- We provide our expert brain injury services in specialised teams of lawyers and support staff, offering you the highest level of technical expertise in road traffic claims.
- You'll be assigned an experienced head injury solicitor who will handle your road accident claim with care and consideration for your needs.
- We employ specialist brain injury lawyers with many years of experience of helping individuals to recover compensation.
- We combine our road collision investigation expertise with a sensitive understanding of the effect of head injuries to ensure that you achieve the best possible result after your road traffic accident. If it will help, we will reconstruct what happened from scratch, as far as we can, to ensure that your chances of recovering brain injury compensation are maximised.
We use only experts trained in head injuries to advise on your injuries and the impact that they will have. We will look carefully at the impact of those injuries on your lifestyle and how you cope after your head injury.
Once we can establish that there is fault on the part of another entitling you to compensation, we aim to secure funding to help with your head injury rehabilitation and to seek interim payments if appropriate to help you avoid financial hardship. Above all, we take a personal and a professional interest in your progress and we see it as our responsibility to guide you through your head injury claim in clear and easy to follow stages.
Contact us today
If you have been involved in a road traffic collision and would like free advice or information about how we can help or about claiming brain injury compensation, contact us today by completing our contact form - it's simple and straightforward. Even if our head injury lawyers are not able to recommend a claim, we will signpost you in the right direction to ensure that you get the help that you need.