Three questions that usually decide it
Was someone else at fault?
Another driver, an employer, an occupier or a manufacturer. Shared fault does not end a claim, it reduces it.
Was it in the last three years?
Scotland allows three years from the accident, or from diagnosis for an industrial disease. Children have longer.
Did you need treatment?
A GP or hospital record from the time is the single most useful piece of evidence in any claim.
Glasgow’s roads, and the claims they produce
The M8 runs straight through the middle of Glasgow, and the Kingston Bridge carries one of the heaviest traffic loads in Europe. Add dense city-centre junctions, bus and taxi routes and a substantial cycling population, and the collision profile is unlike anywhere else in Scotland.
We act for anyone injured through another road user’s negligence, whether you were driving, a passenger, on a motorbike or bicycle, or on foot.
Where the driver is untraced or uninsured, we pursue the claim through the Motor Insurers’ Bureau instead.
Claims we take on in Glasgow
Accidents at work
Unsafe equipment, manual handling, falls from height and inadequate training.
Read more →Road traffic accidents
Drivers, passengers, motorcyclists, cyclists and pedestrians.
Read more →Serious injuries
Head, brain and spinal injuries needing lifetime care and support.
Read more →Slips, trips and falls
Public places, shops, workplaces and defective pavements.
Read more →Industrial disease
Deafness, HAVS, dermatitis, asbestos and occupational asthma.
Read more →No win – no fee
We fund the claim. Nothing to pay unless we win it for you.
Read more →Where a Glasgow road traffic claim is heard
Many Glasgow road traffic claims are best raised in the All-Scotland Personal Injury Court in Edinburgh, a specialist court whose judges deal exclusively with injury work. Glasgow Sheriff Court handles lower-value local actions.
Most claims settle without proceedings once liability and medical evidence are established.
All-Scotland Personal Injury Court
The specialist national court for injury actions, often the better forum for Glasgow road traffic claims.
Glasgow Sheriff Court
The local forum at Carlton Place for lower-value actions arising in the city.
Court of Session
Edinburgh. For the highest-value and most complex claims, including catastrophic and fatal cases.
Where collisions happen in Glasgow
Some patterns recur often enough to be worth naming.
The M8 and Kingston Bridge
Short slip roads, heavy weaving and congestion make this one of the most collision-prone urban motorway stretches in the UK.
City-centre junctions
Multi-lane one-way systems, bus lanes and taxi ranks where turning and lane-change collisions are common.
Cyclists
Left-turning vehicles, car doors and poor junction design, frequently causing serious injury given the lack of protection.
Pedestrians
Crossings, junctions and car parks, including reversing incidents and failures to give way.
Motorcyclists
Among the most seriously injured road users, often in vehicles turning across their path.
Uninsured and hit-and-run
Where the driver is untraced or uninsured we claim through the Motor Insurers’ Bureau.
Where Glasgow collision injuries are treated
How we gather your medical evidence
Serious road trauma in Glasgow is usually taken to the major trauma centre at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital.
Alongside medical records we obtain the police report, any dashcam or CCTV footage, and vehicle damage evidence, all of which degrade or disappear quickly, so early instruction matters.
For significant injuries we instruct an independent consultant to examine you privately at our cost.
Who would handle your claim
Glasgow road traffic claims are run from our Airdrie head office by a named solicitor with in-house paralegal support.
Our record
A 99% success rate
Across personal injury claims, built on preparing cases properly and being honest at the outset about the ones that will not succeed.
Millions recovered
We have helped thousands of injured people win millions of pounds in compensation, from minor slips to catastrophic injury.
Referred by other solicitors
Firms in Scotland and England send us their clients’ personal injury claims, which is the endorsement we value most.
“From the very first phone call to the last they were friendly, courteous and very professional. What helped a great deal was the way they kept me informed.”
“They were so professional, courteous and diligent throughout the process. My compensation came through at the high end of my expectations.”
Scotland has its own rules and timeframes
Scots law differs from the rest of the UK in ways that matter to your claim, which is why a Scottish solicitor is worth having.
Three-year limitation
Most claims must be raised within three years of the accident, or from the date you knew an illness was work-related. Miss it and the claim is usually lost.
Pre-action protocol
Scotland operates a voluntary pre-action protocol for personal injury. It sets out timescales for insurers to investigate and respond before court is needed.
No win – no fee
We fund the cost of running your claim. If we do not win you pay nothing, and any success fee is capped and agreed with you in writing first.