Accidents at University

Accidents in public places are embarrassing but highly common. They can happen just about anyway and our natural instinct is to just get up and run far away but what if you suffer a personal injury? Are you going to walk away from your chance of claiming compensation?

Having an accident at university is no exception to the term ‘accidents in public.’ The university that you are attending has a responsibility to ensure that your learning environment is a safe and healthy one and you as an individual are personally responsible for complying with your universities health and safety guidelines.

All students of a university campus have a duty of care to report accidents, no matter how minor. All these accidents should be reported to your lecturer and an accident report form needs to be filled in and sent off to the HSE. You should keep a photocopy of this form for compensation purposes. This form will ask you to state the injury or injuries that you have sustained and exactly how you came to be suffering from these injuries. You should then go on to say where you sustained your injuries and provide a full description of the events that led up to your accident.

The definition of an accident is an unplanned and uncontrollable event which ultimately causes you personal injury. In the case of an accident at university, you could be injured whilst sitting in a lecture, out on a trip or whilst in the student union as well as while you are in student housing or whilst walking on the university grounds.

However you become involved in an accident that wasn’t your fault whilst at university, the personal injury that you could sustain could end up being serious. You could end up with laceration, fractured/broken bones as well as head or neck trauma and spinal cord damage. The list is endless but if you are suffering due to someone else’s negligence then you could be entitled to personal injury compensation.

If you have had an accident in the last three years whilst at university that was through no fault of your own then get in touch with Accident Consultant today. Here at Accident Consultant we are experts in personal injury compensation claims. We work on a no win no fee basis, meaning that in a successful claim you keep all of the money that you are awarded and your solicitor fees are paid by the losing party’s insurance company.

At Accident Consultant we have already helped numerous students just like you claim the compensation that they deserve after an accident that wasn’t their fault.