No win no fee solicitor news
24/03/2011

Pedestrian crossing road traffic accident claim

A woman driver, who is being sought by police in Crewe, Cheshire, is unlikely to have a road traffic accident claim made against her but may be prosecuted for dangerous driving.

The incident occurred in Broad Street near a junction.

A 10-year-old boy and his six-year-old sister were walking to school when they stopped at a zebra crossing to let some cars go past. When a car on one side came to a halt for them, the road was otherwise clear so the young boy began to walk across but a vehicle collided with him.

It is not made clear in reports whether the car involved was the one whose driver appeared to have stopped for the children, or another vehicle coming across the other side of the road.

The school boy did not suffer any serious personal injury, but was "shocked and shaken," and the woman driver who knocked into him at the crossing did not stop to see if he was harmed.

The boy's school family support worker stated, "He was physically okay but the woman driver didn't even bother to check. He could have had a delayed reaction to the shock. Leaving the scene of an accident is appalling."

The child's parents were contacted after he arrived at school looking "very pale" and told a teaching assistant what had happened.

He was taken to hospital with bruised ribs and Cheshire police is now trying to track down the owner of "a light coloured Renault people carrier, which failed to stop."

If the boy had been more seriously injured his parents might have decided to make a road traffic accident claim, with the help of a no win no fee solicitor, against the driver for their child's pain and suffering.