Car Accident Lawyer Serving Bay Head
Bay Head is where the road up the Barnegat Peninsula stops being a highway and turns into a village street.
Route 35 arrives from Mantoloking as two lanes marked for bicycles; inside the borough those markings end, the road takes the name Main Avenue, cars are allowed to park along it, and the State's posted limit steps down from 35 miles per hour to 30 for the blocks between Johnson Street and Harris Street. Bridge Avenue comes in from Point Pleasant over the Lovelandtown Bridge and runs through the small business district around Mount Street and Lake Avenue to meet Main Avenue, and the North Jersey Coast Line ends at the Bay Head station, so some of the people in the road arrived by train and are on foot. That mix is why a Bay Head collision can so easily involve someone who was not inside a car: a rider sharing the travel lane where the bicycle markings ran out, a walker crossing toward the beach entrances off East Avenue, a passenger stepping out beside traffic. New Jersey's no-fault law, N.J.S.A. 39:6A-4, still pays that person's treatment through an auto policy, and the claim for the injury is made against the driver. We work out which policy, and whose fault, at a free consultation, and there is no fee unless we win.
What We Know About Bay Head Cases
The Bay Head Police Department works from Bridge Avenue, beside the borough hall that houses the municipal court, and its officers respond to a collision on Main Avenue, Bridge Avenue, East Avenue or the side streets between them, so that is where the crash report, the diagram and any body-camera recording of what each driver said at the scene are requested, ideally within days of the crash.
Any summons handed out at the scene is heard at Bay Head Borough Municipal Court, which deals only with the traffic charge, while a claim for the injury belongs to the Superior Court for Ocean County, with civil filings at 118 Washington Street in Toms River, and a guilty plea entered on the ticket can be offered there as an admission unless the municipal court orders otherwise at the moment the plea is taken.
When the person hurt was on a bicycle or on foot there is no second damaged car to photograph, so the proof is kept differently: the bicycle left exactly as it was, the helmet and torn clothing saved, the spot measured against the crosswalk, the parked cars and the posted limit, and the names of people on the sidewalk taken before they return to a rental house or board a train.