If you’ve been hurt by a Bakersfield driver carelessly drifting from a lane, Maison Law can help you earn support to pay all of your medical bills. We make sure the motorist’s car insurance company can’t dodge blame and leave you with nothing for recovery.
If you have been injured, please contact a Bakersfield Car Accident Lawyer for a free, no-obligation case review. It’s an informative and confidential way to find out what your injury may be worth and how to hold a car insurance company fully responsible.
When You Might Need a Lawyer for Your Case
When you’ve suffered a serious injury, something beyond minor scrapes and soreness, and another driver was to blame, a lawyer may provide a powerful advantage for your case. Maison Law can help make sure the liability stays with the driver who left the lane when insurance adjusters try to redirect blame.
A lawyer would take these steps and others to help increase the amount on your injury settlement check:
- Fully investigate the accident, collecting evidence of why the driver left their lane
- Use accident reconstruction teams if necessary
- Use the evidence to fight back if an insurer tries to blame you for what happened
- Work with your doctors to make sure insurers can’t try to downplay your injuries or claim you are healed when you are not
- File your claim for you while you are allowed to focus on healing
- Demand full compensation for your current damages and the medical care you may need in the future
- Check over every settlement offer you receive, reject it, and demand more if it doesn’t cover all of your hardships
You can always file a claim yourself, and if your accident only involves car damage, you may earn a fair settlement check on your own. But when you emerge from a side-swipe crash with serious injuries, a lawyer can often earn you much more than you could by handling the case yourself.
Taking Advantage of a Free Accident Consultation
If you still have questions about whether you have a strong case or not, there’s no harm in scheduling a case review with a real Kern County car accident attorney. This consultation is free, 100% confidential, and it comes with no obligation.
Allow Maison Law to help you navigate through this difficult time. We can answer your questions. We’ll go over all of your legal options and help you find the best path to getting your bills paid and getting back on your feet.
Demanding Support After Being Hit by a Drifting Car
Victims sideswiped by an oncoming car inching over a yellow line can suffer major injuries. A truck on Highway 99 with a tractor-trailer swinging back and forth over dotted white lines might also end up on top of a car, trapping the victims inside.
The physical consequences can be life-threatening. If not fatal, a traumatic injury can change someone’s life completely.
It’s why victims have to secure as much in injury compensation as possible. They need to have all of their ER bills paid, along with any hospital and rehab care they’ll need in the years ahead.
A skilled lawyer would create a full list of every damage the victim has faced, and then demand compensation for these factors and more:
- All medical bills.
- The lifelong support needed for victims suffering a permanent physical disability.
- The victim’s emotional trauma, such as depression and anxiety, while managing a difficult and painful recovery.
- Loss of enjoyment of life. The difficulties encountered when having to give up favorite hobbies and sit out family activities.
- Support for the physical pain victims must live with temporarily or as a lifelong issue.
- Lost wages and benefits while victims are unable to work.
- Money for car repairs or a new car.
- Help with transportation costs while victims are in casts, on crutches, or even in wheelchairs and required to go out of the area to see specialists.
The Dangers of Unintentional Leaving of the Lane
Drivers can get in a rush and not maintain their lane integrity. They can get aggressive and whip from lane to lane, only to lose control and slide into a nearby vehicle.
Lane drifting accidents happen nearly every day across Bakersfield, and the saddest part is, they can easily be prevented when drivers pay full attention to their driving.
These are just a few of the most dangerous types of lane dangers:
- Head-on collisions. The most dangerous of all impact angles. Drivers on cellphones or drowsy motorists can veer across a yellow line and ram an oncoming vehicle. The force of the crash is doubled as the speed of both vehicles factors in. More speed and extra severe injuries.
- DUI accidents. Drivers impaired by drugs or alcohol will have plenty of trouble staying in their lanes. Other drivers, not expecting a wild move in the next lane, may not be able to steer clear.
- Losing control. Distracted drivers can run off the side of the road and lose control. Some drivers try to jerk their cars back on the roadway, only to hit the steep edge and flip the vehicle or fly out of control.
- Merging accidents. Drivers taking an on-ramp to merge onto Route 178 have the responsibility to merge with the drivers already on the road safely. But they can get nervous alongside the rush of highway traffic and cross a white line without intending to.
- Sending motorists into other cars. A driver may see a car that’s weaving back and forth, and swerve to avoid a collision. They can instead strike another vehicle nearby. Unfortunately, the careless driver originally responsible can sometimes drive away without consequence. In these cases, it’s often a good idea to have a skilled lawyer on your case to help track down the culprit and hold them liable.
- Especially dangerous for Motorcyclists. Riders won’t be able to withstand a side-swipe tap from another car safely.
- Bicyclists can also be knocked off the road when they share a lane with a drifting vehicle or are riding in a bike lane alongside an unfocused driver.
- Big Rigs. The many farms, ranches, and orchards around the Central Valley can put large, heavy trucks on the road. Many truck drivers have trouble keeping their giant payloads in one lane. Local stores can be restocked by big trucks, like the semi-trucks heading for Albertsons. Amazon and FedEx trucks and vans can also run motorists off the road.
Any of these possibilities can occur, but proving an accident was caused by another driver’s carelessness can be harder than you think. Their insurance adjusters will be trying to protect them and even to get the blame reassigned in the crash.
A skilled Maison Law attorney can help you collect evidence and witness testimony to fight back. Our lawyers can also call upon accident reconstruction investigators to help show the physics behind the accident and who was careless at the wheel.
Contact a Bakersfield Lane Drifting Car Accident Attorney
If you’ve suffered a serious injury, and a driver who couldn’t stay in their lane was to blame, it’s a good sign that you could earn more with a lawyer’s help. Contact us to set up a free consultation with a real lawyer to go over your options.
Keep in mind, if you feel we can help you earn more for your injury, you don’t have to worry about how you’ll pay a lawyer. We work on a contingency basis. It means we don’t get paid unless we win your case. Then, our fee comes out of the settlement check that an insurance company must write for you.
