Maison Law helps victims hit by inattentive drivers who don’t stay in their lanes on Modesto area roads. Our lawyers make sure those hurt and left with smashed cars receive full compensation with all of their repair and recovery costs.
If you have been injured, please contact a Modesto Car Accident Lawyer for a free case review. It’s an informative, no-string-attached way to find out what your injury may be worth and how to hold a car insurance company fully responsible.
When a Car Accident Lawyer Becomes Necessary
Car accident victims always have the right to file their own insurance claims. But when an accident results in a serious injury, and a careless driver’s lane movement is to blame, a lawyer is often a critical protection to have.
When the cost of recovery skyrockets with a serious injury, insurers pull out all their tactics to try to avoid financial accountability. A Modesto attorney can collect the evidence required to fight back when insurers try to shift blame in an accident. A lawyer is ready with medical documentation when adjusters try to downplay how badly victims are hurt.
A skilled attorney can often win victims much more in compensation when these types of injuries are involved.
- Bone fractures
- Soft tissue injuries such as muscle, ligament, and tendon tears
- Traumatic Brain Injuries (TBIs), including moderate to severe concussions
- Deep cuts or puncture wounds
- Facial lacerations, broken noses and jaws, teeth lost
- Neck injuries and whiplash that persist for more than a week
- Back injuries and damage to the spinal column
- Permanent physical disabilities or disfigurements
- An injury caused to a child or another loved one
- A fatal injury that claims a loved one’s life
The Support to Demand After Being Hit By a Driver Coming Into Your Lane
A driver who causes an accident through carelessness in the lanes must accept full responsibility for the hardships caused to collision victims.
Victims must secure everything they need to pay medical bills and cover the paychecks they’ve lost while out of work. They also have to make sure they have the money to pay for any future medical care they may need.
A skilled lawyer would ensure a car accident settlement check fully covers 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 vacations.
- 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.
The Most Common Victims in Lane Drifting Accidents
Stanislaus County drivers will see motorists inching over white and yellow lines on almost every trip.
It’s a common sight for those alongside large produce trucks and semis on Highway 99. Truck drivers who don’t pay full attention to the road allow their massive rigs to swing over into other lanes.
But all drivers can take their focus off the road, drift sideways, and cause dangerous collisions.
The victims are usually these and other roadway users:
- Drivers and passengers. Car occupants on Coffee Road might get drowsy or be watching videos on a phone when they race across a yellow line to strike a car head-on. Victims will impact car seats, steering wheels, a windshield, a dash, or even other people to get injured. They may quickly end up at Kaiser Permanente Modesto Medical Center with life-threatening injuries.
- A driver on Route 132 might fail to realize they’ve got a rider beside them and not monitor where they are in the lane. They can knock a unprotected motorcyclist to the pavement. They can send the rider into another vehicle.
- On some roads, careless motorists may be sharing a lane with a cyclist, and complete attention to the lane markings is needed. Careless drivers might drift over on helpless riders without knowing it. They can also drift over on bicyclists in bike lanes.
- Drivers can swerve over and hit pedestrians as they cross over an intersection. A drifting motorist might also strike pedestrians on a sidewalk or at a bus stop.
- Road workers. DOT workers in construction zones can be in extreme danger when distracted drivers pass through and don’t stay in the lane they are funneled into. Drivers can also lack focus while dealing with uneven pavement and be sent into other cars or pedestrians.
Lane negligence is easy to spot just before a collision, but victims may need help proving a driver’s mistake when Modesto Police arrive. The facts may have to be protected when an unhelpful insurance adjuster tries to redirect blame in the crash.
An experienced Maison Law attorney would have evidence from a full investigation to help prove what happened. That evidence can include data from an accident reconstruction team, pinpointing the bad driver’s exact position in the lane.
Frequently Asked Questions
What type of documents should I bring to my meeting with a lawyer?
Bring copies of all invoices from hospitals, ambulance providers, and physical therapy providers. Allow your lawyer access to your medical charts that go over your injury outlook as well. Bring pay stubs from your workplace showing the income you usually earn and the changes in your paycheck since you haven’t been able to work. If you have requested a copy of a collision report, you should bring it to. You can also turn over any photos you took at the scene of the accident and any contact information from witnesses you took down.
How long can I wait to file a car accident claim in California?
California sets the statute of limitations on your injury claim at two years. But victims shouldn’t delay in starting the claims and investigative process. Evidence can be lost, and witnesses can become harder to find when victims wait to contact a lawyer.
How can I afford to pay a lawyer after a major accident?
Any Stanislaus County accident victim can afford strong legal protection. Maison Law requires no upfront payment. In fact, we only get paid if we win the case for you. Upon winning, the attorney’s fee is paid out of the settlement check that a car insurance company must write.
Contact a Modesto Lane Drifting Accident Lawyer
Maison Law can often help protect injured car accident victims, and we often earn our clients more than they could by handling their own cases.
To find out what your case may be worth, we offer a no-risk, free consultation to all Modesto accident and injury victims who were struck by a careless driver. This meeting comes with no obligation and is completely confidential.
