Injured in a Public Car Park? Get Free Legal Advice

Our specialist pedestrian accident solicitors advised Mr P that he had strong grounds for making a claim, and consequently agreed to represent him on a no win no fee basis. In correspondence with the motorist’s insurers, we argued that the accident and Mr P’s injuries were the result of irresponsible driving on the motorist’s part. The latter had pulled out of the parking space at unacceptably high speed, and had not looked in his mirrors or checked his blind spot carefully enough to notice Mr P before doing so. Witness statements corroborated this version of events, as well as the fact that the driver’s view of the space that he was reversing into was unobstructed.

Car drivers own pedestrians a duty of care when driving in car parks, meaning they are obliged to take reasonable care to avoid causing injuries to other road users. They must also abide by The Highway Code, which obliges motorists to ‘look carefully before you start reversing’ and to ‘check there are no pedestrians (particularly children), cyclists, other road users or obstructions in the road behind you’. In this instance, the driver had clearly breached the duty of care he owed Mr P, and had also failed to comply with The Highway Code. Mr P won his claim within a few months, and received a compensation settlement totalling £6,500.