If you’ve had an accident due to adverse road conditions you could be eligible for compensation. The experts at Millner and knight can make it right for you via our no win no dramas guarantee.
Firstly due to the vast contrast in legislation throughout Australia, we have created separate pages with specific legal information for each jurisdiction.
If your accident took place in any of the states below, please follow the appropriate link so we can show you the most relevant content.
What are adverse road conditions?
Adverse road conditions is a major catalyst for crashes in Australia. With the county’s population growing at record pace wear and tear of our infrastructure are accelerated.
Adverse road conditions can create the perfect scenario for disaster. In many of these types of accidents, it’s beyond the driver’s reasonable control.
These types of accidents can occur due to many instances, such as infrastructure failure (dim or non-functioning street lights), cracks or slippage in the road, uncleaned spills, etc.
In this case, and you have been involved in a smash you may have grounds to make a motor vehicle accident claim.
Claims can be made against your local shire or council, or against your State or Territory Road Traffic Authority (VicRoads, Queensland Department of Transport and Main Roads, etc.)
If you believe that adverse road conditions played a part in your accident, we might be able to help. We have experienced lawyers who specialise in accident compensation so there are very few things they haven’t come across before.
In some cases, we have dealt with in the past the adverse road condition that caused the accident had been fixed or cleaned up before the victim could take a picture. Also, in other cases, the victim had totally forgotten the location of where the accident took place.
We recommend if possible, taking pictures of anything that you believe contributed to your accident. Also, if you have names and telephone numbers for anyone else involved, this will be a great help in proving you weren’t at fault.
Lawyers at Millner and Knight are well versed in processing and launching claims against local councils or Road Traffic Authorities in the event of adverse road conditions.
To find out if you are eligible to make a claim or entitled to one of our no-cost replacement vehicles, call 1800 106 107 or use our claims calculator.
