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Not every car accident involves two or more vehicles. In many cases, the victims of a car collision are innocent pedestrians. Avoiding a car accident as a pedestrian is sometimes impossible. The car might be moving toward you so fast you do not have time to get out of the way. Your injuries might be extremely serious too. Negligent drivers who strike and injure pedestrians need to be held liable for the harm they cause.
The injuries sustained by pedestrians involved in auto accidents tend to be severe. Significant brain and spinal injuries are common. The road to recovery is often very long and very expensive. Insurance can help you fill in the gaps when paying for medical treatment and other expenses related to the accident. However, you will need to prove the other driver’s behavior caused the collision to get compensation.
If you were a pedestrian involved in a car crash, you should be entitled to damages the same as a person driving a car. Our Indianapolis pedestrian accident lawyers can help you get the money you need to fund your recovery. Call the attorneys of Wruck Paupore at (219) 322-1166 for a free case review to get started.
Pedestrian accidents often happen in different ways from ordinary accidents with two or more vehicles. While typically car crashes happen on the road or highway, pedestrian accidents more often happen in spaces where cars should not be. Our Indianapolis pedestrian accident lawyers can review your accident and determine who should be held liable.
Many pedestrian accidents occur when people are walking down sidewalks or along roadways. Even being on a sidewalk can be dangerous as there is usually no barrier between the road and the curb. If a driver were to lose control of their vehicle, like on an icy or wet road, they could end up hitting pedestrians on the sidewalk. Alternatively, inattentive drivers could end up on the sidewalk because of their own carelessness.
Other pedestrian accidents involve people who are sitting along the road. In many cities and towns, public transportation stops are alongside the road or highway. For example, bus stops are commonly found near street corners. As people are innocently waiting for a bus, a negligent driver could plow into them.
One very common area for pedestrian accidents is the crosswalk. Crossing at a crosswalk must be done carefully. You should always make sure that any oncoming cars are stopped or at least slowing down to a stop. If drivers are confused about who has the right of way, they might not stop and hit a person trying to cross the street.
Many pedestrian accidents do not even happen near the road. Parking lots can be very dangerous for pedestrians. Parking lots tend to be full of people walking in and out of stores or businesses, and drivers need to be careful. It is not unheard of for pedestrians to get hit by impatient drivers in parking lots.
Generally, people assume that drivers are almost always at fault for pedestrian accidents. While this is often the case, it is not necessarily true in every circumstance. There are a variety of instances in which someone other than a driver could be responsible for a pedestrian collision.
Perhaps a pedestrian attempted to cross the street at an intersection. However, the light at the intersection was not working properly, and the driver and pedestrian both thought they had the right of way. The town or city responsible for maintaining the traffic light could be held liable in such a case. When traffic lights malfunction, it is more than just an inconvenience. People could be put at risk by broken traffic lights. Keep in mind that suing a municipality is different than suing a private person. Our Indianapolis pedestrian accident attorneys can help you.
It is also a possibility that the accident occurred because of an equipment failure on the vehicle. For example, if the brakes fail because of a manufacturing defect, the injured pedestrian might have a claim against the manufacturer. However, if the equipment failure was due to the driver’s failure to maintain the vehicle, there is no claim against the manufacturer.
Many injured pedestrians do not realize that their auto insurance could kick in even if they were not driving when the accident happened. All drivers are required to carry insurance. This auto insurance may cover you as a pedestrian in a car accident. This is important in cases where the driver who hit you is uninsured.
When the driver in a pedestrian accident is uninsured, the injured pedestrian may still sue them personally. In such an instance, the driver could be liable, but they will have to pay for damages out of their own pocket instead of their insurance. A pedestrian could also turn to their own insurance. Many policies offer protection in case of accidents with uninsured drivers.
If you are unsure about how your insurance works in your case, speak with our Indianapolis pedestrian accident attorneys. Our team has experience working with injured pedestrians, and we can help you get coverage from your auto insurance if necessary.
Unfortunately, more than one pedestrian may be injured in a pedestrian accident. Sometimes, drivers lose control of their vehicles and end up driving through a crowd. These cases are incredibly tragic as many people are seriously hurt. These cases also present complex legal issues for plaintiffs.
If more than one pedestrian was hurt in your accident, each pedestrian could have a case against the negligent driver. It could be that one pedestrian has already begun legal proceedings against the defendant. Do not worry, you can still file your own lawsuit. However, you could potentially join your cases together because your lawsuit arises out of the same conditions and event as the other pedestrians. This would allow for all plaintiffs to have their cases decided together at the same time. Talk to our Indianapolis pedestrian accident attorneys about a possible joinder issue in your case.
If you were a pedestrian when you were struck by a vehicle, your damages might be severe and extremely expensive. Our Indianapolis pedestrian accident attorneys can help you get compensation. Call the lawyers of Wruck Paupore at (219) 322-1166 for a free initial case review.
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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