B.C. woman hit by a car says she’s getting no help from ICBC’s no-fault insurance

Victoria Ward said the accident has prevented her from teaching fitness classes and re-opening her daycare after being forced to close it while she was battling breast cancer.

A B.C. woman is sharing her story about dealing with ICBC and its recently-introduced no-fault insurance model.

Last December, Victoria Ward was walking to her car parked on the side of the road when she was struck by a car passing by.

All of a sudden she said she was “on the ground.”

She said she put her hand to the back of her head and realized she was bleeding.

“I crouched down by the side of my car and realized the stuff I was carrying was all over the road and then a neighbour came flying out and said ‘sit still’. I knew then I’d been hit by a car,” Ward told Global News.

Ward said the woman who struck her did not flee the scene but she told Ward she got “in her way.”

However, the neighbours had a porch camera and police could see Ward was not in the middle of the road as the driver had claimed.

“We’re assuming that maybe she had a beep go off in her car and she swerved last minute and that is what the ambulance driver and the paramedics said saved my life, otherwise I would have been pinned between her car and my car.”