Car Accident Law

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When involved in a car accident, you can experience a terrible feeling. More often than not, someone that is involved in the crash, whether it be drivers, pedestrians, or passangers, is hurt; sometimes fatally. The cars involved can be damaged or even utterly destroyed. The legal system can help those involved sort out who exactly may be at fault, and which group or party is resposibile when it comes to paying the bills associated with the accident such as doctors' and mechanics' bills. Car accident law is a partial combination of both personal injury and traffic law. If you're involved in an accident, you may start to worry about working with insurance companies, repairing your car, and recovering from injuries you may have recieved in the accident. If you were the victim in the automobile accident, you should also begin thinking about whether a lawyer can help you recover and collect money so that you may pay for your accident-related bills and compensate you for your pain and suffering. …show more content…
If there is alcohol or drugs involved, the party at fault will be prosecuted. Yet for most other car accidents, you, the other driver, and your insurance companies may be left to deal with medical bills and car repair expenses. More than often, these issues are resolved in the court.
There are many causes of automobile accidents. Among the more common:
⦁ Distracted Drivers: This means drivers who are talking on the phone or texting, on any other device, fiddling with music, paying attention to other passangers, or zoning out and not paying attention to their surroundings.
⦁ Drowsy Drivers: Meaning drivers who've gotten little sleep, have been driving long amounts of time, driving after a big meal, or driving after taking