Due to the increasing population urban areas, the traffic accidents occur more in recent years than in the past. These traffic accidents both cause material damages and bodily damages, which can cause bodily injury or death. These damages are subject to Compensation Law, which is a sub-branch of the Law of Obligations and is considered as one of the oldest areas of law. However, every action that results in death and injury also falls within the field of criminal law, and criminal proceedings are also carried out as a result of deaths and injuries resulting from traffic accidents in parallel with compensation cases.

Anyone who has suffered damage due to the traffic accidents are able to make a claim within the scope of the Turkish Roads and Traffic Law, the Turkish Code of Obligations, the Insurance Law and the Turkish Commercial Code. Many factors such as disability rate, fault status, age of the person, income status, etc. are effective in determining the amount of compensation due to injury traffic accidents. In a fatal traffic accident, factors such as the age of the deceased, the age of the people deprived of support, the income status of the supporter, the fault status, etc. are effective in determining the compensation.

Traffic accidents can result in material and moral damages. Apart from the person himself and the other passengers in the vehicle, the relatives of the persons in the vehicle and other related third parties may be affected by material and moral damages. These people have also right to claim for compensation. In traffic accidents resulting in injury, the following compensation claims can be made: permanent disability compensation, temporary disability compensation, temporary caregiver, permanent caregiver compensation, treatment expenses, material damages and non-pecuniary compensation can be claimed. In traffic accidents resulting in death, compensation for deprivation of support and non-pecuniary damage may be claimed from the responsible party within the framework of the relevant legislation.

In traffic accidents that cause only material damage without injury or death, repair cost, replacement vehicle cost, depreciation, towing cost and other damages may be claimed from the responsible party, depending on the concrete incident and the damage items.

As the Bosphorus Legal Partners team, we provide meticulous service to our valued clients in order to ensure that the process in both criminal and civil proceedings arising from traffic accidents involving death or injury is carried out in a healthy manner, so that people who have right to claim for compensation do not lose their rights, and that they can get their rights fully and as soon as possible.