Cherry Hill Distracted Driving Accident Lawyer

When a distracted driver causes a collision and you’re the victim, you’ll want to discuss your legal options with a skilled Cherry Hill distracted driving accident lawyer at Folkman Law.

We have years of experience investigating distracted driving accidents and successfully assigning the at-fault driver. Our goal is always to get the maximum available compensation for our clients.

Signs of a Distracted Motorist

Some tell-tale signs your fellow motorist may be distracted include:

• Start aggressively moving within their lane
• Repeatedly suddenly apply their brakes
• You can see them applying makeup, shaving, taking care of other self-grooming in their rearview mirror
• Failing to maintain a steady speed
• Venture outside of their lane
• You see something (e., a phone, food, etc.) in their hand

While some of the above may be more obvious signs a driver was distracted, they don’t necessarily have to be to cause a crash.

Ask any Cherry Hill distracted driving accident lawyer on our team about factors they identify as being responsible for the collisions that injure our clients. You’ll hear a multitude of answers.

Injuries That Distracted Drivers Often Cause

Much like there isn’t a single factor responsible for these types of collisions, there isn’t one type of injury that can stem from these types of wrecks either. While some victims are fortunate enough to walk away from these crashes unscathed, others suffer catastrophic injuries such as:

• Blunt force trauma
• Burns
• Spinal cord injuries
• Bone fractures
• Amputation
• Traumatic brain injuries

Sadly, it’s not uncommon for individuals hurt in accidents with distracted drivers to experience the above injuries together with psychological impacts, like post-traumatic stress disorder.

Also, although many people may survive these crashes, accidents caused by distractions are often fatal.

How a Cherry Hill Distracted Driving Lawyer Supports Your Case

Many auto accident injury victims initially file an insurance claim on their own. However, making such a choice isn’t ideal in every situation. Doing so after a distracted driving accident in Camden County is a particularly bad idea.

Why?

It has to do with how complex cases like these tend to be. Take, for example, the following aspects of cases like these:

Securing Evidence to Prove Liability

Sorting out whether the driver who struck and injured you was indeed distracted isn’t straightforward, but instead may require requesting their phone records, surveillance video footage, and having eyewitnesses provide depositions.

A lot of legal know-how and “legwork” may be required to secure this information. This is one area where it can be extremely helpful to work closely with a Cherry Hill distracted driving accident lawyer who has experience securing this evidence.

Adhering to Case Filing Deadlines

Also, as you may be aware, there’s no open-ended timeline for filing a legal claim. Instead, a statute of limitations applies. It’s generally two years from the date of the injury incident here in New Jersey, but there are some exceptions that apply. Once this date passes, crash victims often lose their right to recover any compensation for their losses.

Any attorney you work with in our office will know the deadlines that apply to cases like these and whether you qualify for an exception to the general rule.

Negotiating a Settlement

Once insurance adjusters find out that you’ve filed a claim and that you have serious injuries, you can expect them to become pretty aggressive in attempting to get you to settle matters with them. This is why our lawyers often advise our clients to let us handle all communication with insurance companies.

It minimizes the chances of you doing or saying something that could affect your ability to secure a settlement in your case.

Provided you involve our distracted driving lawyers in Cherry Hill in a timely manner, we can build a strong case and submit it to insurers for their review. Should they offer a settlement, we can discuss it with you and potentially make a counteroffer with the goal of securing you fair and adequate compensation for your crash-related losses.

Representing You in Court

If we encounter resistance from the insurance company to provide a fair settlement or they deny that their policyholder is responsible, we might advise that the next best option would be to file a civil lawsuit and take the insurance company and the at-fault driver to court. We will be ready to pivot and provide a strong representation before a jury.

Throughout the entire civil lawsuit procedure, we’ll continue to negotiate in order to achieve that fair settlement.

What To Do If You Encounter an Unfocused Motorist

If you see a driver doing the following, the best course of action is to ensure your safety. You can accomplish this by pulling over at a safe location as soon as it’s safe to do so.

If possible, make sure to take down their license plate number, description of the driver, and the general direction in which they were traveling. Consider calling 911 with this information. While you may have been able to narrowly avoid an accident, someone else might not have.

Any information regarding what you saw may prove valuable to someone else hurt in another crash.

That being said, if you’re reading this, it’s likely because a distracted driving wreck in New Jersey left you injured. While there’s nothing you could do at this point to reverse fate, if you collected any of the above information, you’ll want to be sure to bring it to the attention of the lawyer you meet with.

Doing this is particularly important if you suffered one of the following catastrophic injuries in that collision.