Trips and slips

Every organisation has a duty of care to ensure all visitors to its premises are safe and every local highway authority has a duty to ensure that the roads and pavements for which they are responsible are kept in a reasonable state of maintenance and repair.

Accidents resulting from slips and trips are often perceived as trivial, and an example of the "compensation culture". In reality, a high proportion of such accidents involve serious injury. Health and safety experts estimate that 95% of major slips result in broken bones.

Examples of tripping and slipping personal injury claims include:

• Defective pavements
• Wet floors in shops, hospitals, and schools
• Injuries suffered in sports centres and playgrounds
• Injuries to pedestrians, cyclists, motorcyclists and motorists caused by potholes in the road

Quite often the injuries sustained as a result of such accidents have long term adverse consequences.

If you think that you may have a valid compensation claim, then please telephone one of our personal injury specialist lawyers free on 01843 220288 or use our contact form on this page.

Your initial consultation can be face to face or over the telephone and we can sometimes offer remote video appointments.  We make no charge for the initial consultation during which our personal injury lawyers will assess your claim on its merits, explain how successful it is likely to be and, if possible, the amount you might be able to claim.

There is no obligation and no charge to talk to us and you will have your own dedicated friendly lawyer from start to finish.

Our lawyers accept compensation claims instructions on a ‘no win no fee’ basis and if your prospects of success are high enough, we will help you bring a compensation claim against the people or organisation responsible for the accident.