We often get asked how long one has to claim.  Well, you have to submit your claim form to the Road Accident Fund, complete with your affidavit, within 3 years generally.  If however your claim is a hit and run where you cannot identify the other vehicle you only have 2 years.  After that there is a certain period in which to issue a summons.

You have longer than 3 years when you suffered from a serious mental incapacity or, and this is more common, you were younger than 18 at the time of the accident in which case your 3 years only begin ticking when you turn 18 (before the Childrens Act came into operation on 1 July 2007, that figure was 21).