In most car accidents, one person is to blame for the accident. However, sometimes it is the case that two people are partly to blame (perhaps equally 50%-50%, or unequally 75%-25%). In other words, each driver may have contributed to the cause of the accident. If someone was said to be 100% responsible for an accident, it would mean that they, and only they had been entirely to blame, and that no-one else had played a part in causing the accident to happen. Similarly, someone who was said to be 75% liable for an accident would have been responsible for the majority of the accident, but one or more other people would have been responsible for the other 25% of the accident. In a case like this, liability (or responsibility for the accident occurring) is said to be split, hence split liability accidents.
The percentage of which a person is liable for causing your accident is linked directly to the amount of compensation that they would be able to recover in a claim. So even if you are partly at fault in an accident, you could still claim some compensation.
If you have been involved in a road accident, in which you are partly to blame then call our specialist Advice Centre on 0844 854 5090