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People spend time behind the wheel of a vehicle nearly every day. You might be as safe as can be on the road, but other drivers might not, and you might be injured in a bad accident. In that case, call for help and call a lawyer.
The first thing you must do after a crash is call for help. Even if you or another driver does not want the police involved, make sure both the authorities and medical personnel are sent to the scene. When ready, you should contact an attorney about how you can get financial compensation for your injuries. Our team can help you gather evidence to support your claims for damages and compensation. When talking to your lawyer, you should discuss the causational factors surrounding the accident. Was the other driver on their phone? Were they intoxicated? How fast were they going? These are important factors to consider. How your accident happened might influence how we pursue damages such as medical bills, property damage, and more.
For a free, confidential review of your case, speak to our car accident lawyers by calling Wruck Paupore at (219) 322-1166.
Car accidents can be frightening experiences, and injured drivers might be in pain and overwhelmed by the chaos of the crash. If you are in an accident, it is imperative that you collect yourself and call for help immediately. If you are too badly injured to make the call yourself, someone else at the accident scene should make the call for you.
In seemingly less serious accidents, the other driver might pressure you to skip calling for help and work things out privately. Do not give in. Call the police and call for emergency medical help. If you feel relatively unharmed and want to avoid an ambulance ride, you should still get to a hospital after speaking to the police. Not only might you have unseen internal injuries, but your doctors can keep thorough notes of your treatment and create accurate medical records that might be used as evidence later.
Start documenting the scene if you can. Take pictures, record videos, or jot down notes about the accident. Anything you think is important should be recorded. Many people take photos and videos for their auto insurance. Our car accident lawyers can also use these records as evidence in civil proceedings.
When the police arrive, be careful what you say. While you should disclose all the important facts and details you can so the police can write an accurate report, you should avoid saying anything that might be misconstrued as an admission of fault. Even saying “I’m sorry” might be twisted into an admission.
When you are ready, call a lawyer for help getting your case started. Your attorney can review your case, determine what your damages are worth, and determine the best path forward to get fair compensation.
We cannot file a claim without some evidence to back you up. Without evidence, your claims may be quickly dismissed as baseless accusations. Collecting evidence after an accident can be difficult, especially if you are badly hurt and cannot gather evidence on your own.
Our team can help you find witnesses who were present during the accident. These might be people who stopped to help you after the crash. We might also find witnesses in the police report from the crash. If the police spoke to any witnesses during their investigation, their names and contact details might be in the report.
Your testimony is perhaps the most crucial part of your case. Only you can testify about what you did before, during, and after the accident. You can refute the defendant's allegations that you were speeding, driving recklessly, or otherwise contributing to the accident. You can also testify about your damages and how the accident has impacted your life.
Video cameras are a great source of evidence. In today’s increasingly digital world, security cameras and dashcams are everywhere, and many can upload videos that can be saved for later. If there were businesses or houses near the accident scene, we can check for security cameras. If there were other drivers, they might have had dashcams that recorded the crash.
All sorts of things might cause car accidents. In most cases, the accident stems from driver negligence. For example, one of the leading causes of car accidents in Terre Haute and all over the country is distractions behind the wheel. While drivers have always had to focus on the road, it has become increasingly difficult. With the advent of cell phones and other communication devices, more and more drivers are distracted on the road. It only takes a moment or two of distraction for a bad accident to occur.
Another common factor in many accident cases is alcohol or drugs. Intoxicated drivers are extremely dangerous. They often drive at dangerous speeds, cannot focus enough to remain in a single lane, and cannot react quickly enough to avoid collisions. If the defendant in your case was intoxicated, the police may arrest them, and there might be criminal charges pending in addition to your civil claim.
A significant factor to consider in nearly every case is speed. Drivers must obey the traffic code and drive according to posted speed limits. If they exceed these limits, they might be liable for a subsequent accident. Speed is so crucial to consider because the greater the speed, the worse the accident usually is.
For a free, confidential review of your case, speak to our car accident lawyers by calling Wruck Paupore at (219) 322-1166.
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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