Car Accident Lawyer, Lacey Township NJ

You prove it with evidence from outside the two drivers' stories: independent witnesses, camera footage, the diagram in the crash report and the damage pattern on both cars. That corner and the blocks around it are lined with businesses, and footage can also come from dash cameras and the responding officers' body-worn cameras, but most of those systems overwrite what they hold within days or weeks. We send written preservation requests to the likely owners as soon as we are retained and ask Lacey police for their recordings. Until then, write down the names of anyone who stopped, photograph the intersection and both cars, and give the other insurer no recorded statement.

No, sun glare is not a defense, because a driver who cannot see what is ahead is expected to slow down or stop. Lacey Road runs east and west between Route 9 and the Parkway at Exit 74, so a low sun sits in the windshield of westbound drivers toward evening and eastbound drivers in the morning, and where it stood can be worked out from the date, the time on the crash report and the direction each car was traveling. His explanation helps you more than it helps him, since it admits he drove on without being able to see. Write down the time and exactly what he said, and call us before his insurer asks for a recorded statement.

Yes, for your medical bills: your own auto insurer pays for treatment through PIP under N.J.S.A. 39:6A-4 whether or not anyone was at fault, and a deer strike on the wooded part of Lacey Road is no exception. Damage to the car is a comprehensive claim under your own policy, if you carry that coverage. There is a claim against another person only if another driver played a part, for example by swerving into your lane or stopping short for the animal. Get examined the same day, report the crash to the police so there is a record, photograph the car before it is towed, and call us to go through the policy with you.

In most respects no: a trailer is generally covered by the liability policy on the vehicle towing it, so your injury claim is made against that driver and that insurer, and your own PIP still pays the medical bills first. What changes is the evidence, because the hitch, the safety chains, the trailer lights and the load all become questions, and the rig may leave Lacey Township that weekend. If that policy turns out to be small, the underinsured motorist coverage on your own policy can make up the gap up to your limit, but only if your own insurer is notified and given its chance to respond before you accept the other side's money. Photograph the truck, the trailer and both plates, and call us.

The report itself is rarely rewritten, but it does not decide fault: the officer's conclusion is an opinion formed afterward from statements and vehicle positions, and it does not bind the insurance companies or a court. You can ask the department to add your written statement to the file, and factual mistakes such as the wrong lane, direction or point of impact are worth correcting through a supplemental report. What moves an insurer is evidence the officer never had: a witness who left before police arrived, footage from a business on Route 9 or Lacey Road, or damage that does not match the other driver's account. Send us the report and your photographs and we will tell you where it is weak.