Car Accident Lawyer Serving Barnegat Township
West Bay Avenue is the only road in Barnegat Township that crosses the Garden State Parkway and the only one with a Parkway interchange, so a trip between the two halves of town runs along it, past the ramps at Exit 67.
Commuters from the developments on the west side, shoppers moving between the stores on both sides of the Parkway, and drivers coming off the ramps onto a county road all meet in the same short stretch, and what goes wrong there is particular to the place: ramp traffic merging into a line it did not expect, and cars crossing the lanes to reach a store on the far side of the Parkway. Route 9 is a different kind of road, the old village's through street, used by drivers passing between Waretown and Manahawkin. Wherever it happened, N.J.S.A. 39:6A-4 puts your medical treatment on your own auto insurer first, through PIP, even when the other driver was plainly to blame, and the lawsuit limitation in N.J.S.A. 39:6A-8 may restrict the pain-and-suffering claim depending on the policy you bought. We sort out coverage, fault and proof early, before the insurers settle on their own version. The consultation is free, and there is no fee unless we win.
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In the old village Route 9 is two lanes with side streets and driveways opening onto it, so a collision there is a different claim from one beside the Parkway: fault turns on who had the right of way when a car came out, and the proof is in where the vehicles came to rest, what could be seen from the side street and what the people nearby watched happen.
Around the Exit 67 ramps on West Bay Avenue much of the useful evidence is privately held, since stores on both sides of the Parkway may have cameras that take in part of the road along with their lots, and because that footage is recorded over on the owner's schedule, a written request to keep it goes to each business in the days right after the crash.
The Parkway itself is the exception, because nothing fronts on it: there are no shops beside those lanes to ask for footage, so a crash in that stretch is proved from what the troopers recorded at the scene, from the damage to the vehicles and from the people who were in them, which makes photographs taken before either car is repaired worth more here than anywhere else in the township.