
WHAT MAKES PEDESTRIAN ACCIDENTS SUCH A BIG PROBLEM?
Who is at risk of being in a pedestrian accident?
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Who is at risk of being in a pedestrian accident?

It is vital that your case is thoroughly investigated so that we can determine the true extent of the financial damages you suffered.

The CDC reports that men are more likely to experience injury or death in a pedestrian accident than women are.

In many cases, a spinal cord injury will be immediately apparent because victims often notice that they don’t have feeling in their extremities or below the waist when they are being treated by emergency responders.

A settlement conference is a meeting between or among opposing parties to a lawsuit intended to allow them to agreeably resolve the disputed claims without the need for a trial.


Experienced advocacy can help individuals seek compensation to provide for the physical and emotional recovery an injured pedestrian needs.

If an accident does occur, pedestrians are more likely to experience serious injury than the person in the vehicle.

Recovery in these instances is multi-fold. Emotionally, each family member will handle things differently.

A Chevy Malibu hit the man as he was walking in the freeway.

Other duties of a pedestrian include the requirement to walk close to his or her left-hand side of the roadway unless a crosswalk or other safe means of crossing to do so isn’t an option.

Safety rankings of the California Office of Traffic Safety put the defendant third out of 97 cities in the state with like population in a number of pedestrian accidents – with the first being the worst.