Car Accidents
Have you or a loved one been injured in a car accident?
Before you speak with an insurance adjuster, give a recorded statement or sign any papers, call now and speak with a lawyer immediately about your case.
A few tips:
- Seek Immediate Medical Attention
- Do Not Speak With the Insurance Company without Consulting an Attorney
- Gather as Much Information (witnesses, times, dates, locations)
- Order your free copy of our new personal injury book
- Don’t Delay, Call Now And Speak With a Lawyer for Free
The most common causes of car accidents are:
- being hit from the rear by another vehicle;
- being hit by a car making a left turn without yielding the right-of-way to oncoming traffic;
- running red lights or stop signs;
- hit and run
The main cause of car accidents is driver inattentiveness; the driver simply isn’t paying attention to the road, traffic signs, and traffic lights.
If you have been injured or a loved one killed in a car crash—especially if the injuries are serious or a death is involved—it is imperative that you contact an experienced personal injury lawyer immediately. Do not talk with an insurance company investigator or adjuster before you have had the chance to retain a lawyer. The lawyer will often advise you against giving a statement to the insurance company’s adjuster, as they are trained to trick you into saying things that will come back to haunt you at a later stage of the case.
Another reason to hire an experienced personal injury lawyer immediately is that the lawyer will want to start gathering evidence as soon as possible. Your lawyer will want to send his or her investigator to visit the scene of the collision to see if there were any contributing factors to the accident, take photographs of the scene and the cars before they are repaired or destroyed, talk to witnesses while their recollection of the accident is still fresh in their minds. In catastrophic injury and wrongful death cases, the lawyer will frequently hire an “accident reconstructionist” –an expert in recreating automobile crashes—to prove that the other driver was at fault.
If you or a loved one has been seriously injured or killed in a car crash, contact an experienced personal injury lawyer immediately so he or she can start working right away to obtain all the monetary compensation you are entitled to.
