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When victims need compensation after car accidents, which is often the case, they can seek it by pursuing claims against negligent drivers.
When police officers get to your crash site, tell them your insurance and personal information, and the other driver should do the same. Report any pain, discomfort, or visible injuries to law enforcement and accept care from paramedics. The police will indicate the apparent severity of your injuries at the scene in the report, so be candid when discussing your injuries. Tell officers if your car sustained significant property damage, and ask them to photograph the damage if you cannot do so yourself. When talking with law enforcement, tell them what you can recall about the accident and why it happened. After we get the report from law enforcement and start preparing your case, we will see if it contains eyewitnesses’ names and contact details so that we can quickly schedule interviews. In addition to eyewitnesses, experts in crash reconstruction can often benefit claims, and we can quickly provide experts with the necessary resources to determine the accident’s cause.
For a free and confidential case review from our car accident lawyers, call Wruck Paupore today at (219) 322-1166.
When you call 911 to report an accident and police officers arrive at the scene, immediately give them your personal and insurance information. Then, tell the police if you are hurt, and accept the care paramedics offer. Tell officers why the accident happened and what the negligent driver did wrong, being careful not to accept partial fault for the collision.
Start by giving police officers your information, including your driver’s license and insurance details. Law enforcement will collect the same information from the at-fault driver, and our car accident lawyers can refer to the police report for those and other details when building your claim.
Victims should also point out any property damage to their vehicles so officers can mention it in their reports. If you are too hurt to take photos of property damage yourself, you can ask police officers to take pictures. These photos can help accident reconstruction experts ascertain the negligent driver’s speed during impact and other important details.
Also, tell officers if you are injured. While victims may not know their eventual diagnoses at the scene, they can explain that they are hurt and need medical attention. Officers might note the apparent extent of your injuries in the crash report and whether or not you could leave under your own power or needed transportation to the hospital. If you do not have any visible injuries, police officers can observe, they might not know that you are hurt if you do not tell them, so be candid with officers about your pain levels after a collision. If paramedics do not arrive on the scene along with police officers, you can ask officers to alert them so you get the appropriate care at the location.
Police officers will ask all involved parties for their accounts of an accident and make observations based on such information and evidence at the scene. When officers ask you what happened, be as thorough as possible. Seriously injured victims, like those who sustain head injuries, might be unable to speak with law enforcement at the scene and recount an accident’s events. In these cases, victims can focus on getting medical care, and police officers may contact them after the fact if they need more information to complete the report.
When talking with the police, be mindful not to accept fault for the accident or say something that could be misconstrued as negligent. At-fault drivers might point to such statements as evidence of comparative fault, possibly lowering a victim’s compensation, according to I.C. § 34-51-2-5. Our lawyers can help ensure you make consistent statements after the accident and throughout the recovery process so that you do not unintentionally jeopardize your claim.
When witnesses stop at crash sites to aid victims, victims can ask for their contact details. You can give this information to our lawyers at the start of your case, and we can promptly call to schedule interviews. When victims cannot talk to witnesses themselves, they can ask first responders to do so. Police officers typically speak to witnesses who stay on the scene long enough and include their information in accident reports.
Once we identify witnesses, we can interview them to ascertain what they saw and how they may be of value to your claim. Preserving witness statements is crucial, as memories could become less reliable with time. Witnesses could see a crash from a different angle than victims, offering a new perspective or information. For example, if a negligent driver rear-ended you, you might not have noticed them speeding behind you until it was too late. Witnesses, however, might have watched the entire accident happen and can give statements confirming the other driver rear-ended you because of their own negligence.
Other witness statements may come from experts. For example, experts in crash reconstruction can analyze evidence from the scene, incident reports, eyewitness statements, and other information to determine who or what initiated the collision. Identifying whether accident reconstruction experts or other expert witnesses may benefit your claim early in the process is important. This will give experts time to review evidence and make their findings. If more than three years pass since the accident, you can no longer seek compensatory damages against a liable driver, according to § 34-11-2-4.
Call our car accident lawyers at (219) 322-1166 for a free case evaluation from Wruck Paupore.
Don is a founding partner and one of the nation’s top-ranked personal injury litigators. He is a member of the Multi-million Dollar Advocates Forum, which includes less than 1% of the nation’s trial lawyers, and awarded the highest ranking given by Martindale Hubbel and AVVO.
More importantly, Don understands representing personal injury victims is about more than recovering the best settlement: it’s about helping clients get back on their feet and supporting them in every aspect of their recovery.
In nearly all cases, our clients seek compensation from the wrongdoer’s insurance company. Before forming Wruck Paupore, Jason worked for a prominent law firm representing some of the world’s largest insurers. This experience gives Jason a deep understanding of the insurance industry and the strategies it uses to pay injury victims as little as possible.
Jason -- and our entire team -- put this inside knowledge to work to force insurance companies to pay what is actually owed. Often, we use the insurance company’s own tactics against them as we fight for the full compensation our client deserves.
For more than four decades, Keith has been fighting for injury victims. During that time, he’s watched the insurance industry change, with insurers now more interested in protecting their stock price than treating injury victims fairly.
Since the beginning, Keith has put people first. From his childhood in Gary, Indiana during the 1960’s and working his way through law school, Keith has risen to become one of the Midwest’s most respected trial lawyers. He has never forgotten that being a lawyer is about helping people -- and seeing injury victims through struggles in a way that could change their lives forever.
Over the decades, Keith, Don and Jason have fought relentlessly for clients, even when other lawyers have said the case was impossible to win.
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