Slip, trip and fall accidents are extremely common occurrences, which can happen any time in a variety of places. You have a right to expect public places to be safe, so if you suffer a slip, trip or fall accident you may have grounds to make a personal injury claim for the injury you sustain.

Your local Highway Authority is legally responsible for the maintenance of their stretch of road. If you have been unfortunate enough slip, trip or fall as a result of a defective paving slab, or a pot hole in the road or on the pavement and we are able to prove that this was caused by a failure by the local Highway Authority to take adequate steps to ensure your safety, then you could be entitled to claim compensation for your personal injuries.

Highway authorities will seek to defend claims against them and if they can show, by way of inspection records that they have reasonable inspections of maintenance and repair then they are more likely to successfully defend a claim for compensation against them.

Everyone should report slip and trip accidents in public places so that the local Highways Authority is made aware of defects that arise and can deal with them appropriately. This in turn will help prevent accidents of this type happening to others in the future, even if the local Highways Authority is not liable for your own injury.