Our local Los Angeles pedestrian accident attorneys have the same vast legal experience as our Orange County pedestrian attorneys and we have the legal knowledge you will need in setting up and resolving your auto insurance claims for accidents involving pedestrians, bikers, joggers and skateboarders and crosswalk accidents. All pedestrians in California, unlike New York for example, have the right-of-way to use the road. But often, pedestrian injury attorneys are required because car drivers and truck drivers ignore this well settled California law and collide with pedestrians as they cross the street in a cross walk, or other right of way area. Often a vehicle driver is at bliss on his or her cell phone and not paying attention at all! This is how many pedestrian accidents in Los Angeles, California occur.
Types of Pedestrian Injuries
When a pedestrian, biker, rollerblader, runner, or jogger is legally using a county street, or city street, such as when in a cross walk, on a green "walk" sign, and he or she is hit in a car crash, or truck crash, the injuries will usually require compensation in the form of money damages for hospital bills, lost wages, mental and physical pain and suffering. As of 2004, our own National Highway Traffic Safety Administration claimed that at least 5,000 reported deaths as the result of reported auto v. pedestrian accidents. In fact, more than 78,000 pedestrians are seriously injured each year from a car or truck crash
Obviously, pedestrians are more vulnerable to injury and death on a roadway than are the occupant(s) of a car or truck with safety features such as seatbelts, airbag and roll cage. Approximately 90% of non-vehicle occupant deaths/fatalities involve pedestrians, as opposed to skateboarders, rollerbladers, and bicyclists. Motor vehicle v. pedestrian accidents usually result in catastrophic loss.
California pedestrians injured in a car accident or truck crash, must seek and retain experienced Los Angeles and Orange County pedestrian attorneys. Southern California, with crowded cities like Laguna Beach, Venice Beach, Huntington Beach and Hermosa Beach, can be dangerous for pedestrians and elderly people crossing the street. Pedestrians don't have airbags, seatbelts, or a safety cage to protect them in an auto v. pedestrian accident. Our Los Angeles personal injury attorneys and lawyers have the experience with pedestrian accident law to help you win your Los Angeles or Orange County Cross-walk accident case.
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