Car Accident Lawyer, Manasquan NJ

Usually the person who opened it. This is proved as ordinary negligence: someone sitting in a parked car has to look before swinging a door into a lane that traffic and bicycles are using, and the physical evidence usually settles it, where the door is dented, where the bike or the car came to rest, and how far the door was into the travel lane. The parked car's own liability policy is what responds, which surprises people who assume a stopped car cannot be at fault. Photograph the door and the street before the car is moved, get the driver's information and a police report, and send both to us.

It helps you. A driver approaching a marked grade crossing with lights and gates is expected to anticipate that the cars ahead will stop, so being hit there is a strong case of following too closely rather than a sudden, unforeseeable stop. The crash report should note the crossing and the signals, and the station area is one of the few places in town where cameras and witnesses waiting for a train are likely, so ask us to look early before the footage is gone. Get checked out, then let us open the claim.

No. Declining transport is a decision about the ambulance, not a statement that you were unhurt, and the refusal form the crew asks you to sign records that you turned down the ride, nothing more, so do not let an adjuster treat it as more than that. What an adjuster can use against you is a calendar with nothing on it, so go to urgent care or your own doctor now, tell them the date and place of the crash and every symptom including the small ones, and keep the appointments that follow. Your PIP coverage pays for that treatment regardless of fault, and the record it creates is what answers the argument that a crash this slow could not have hurt you.

Yes. A cyclist or pedestrian struck by a car has the same claim against the driver as another motorist would, and New Jersey's PIP coverage usually pays your first medical bills through your own auto policy even though you were on a bike, with the driver's coverage or a state fund available if you have none. If the driver was uninsured or carried only a thin policy, your own uninsured and underinsured motorist coverage can respond. Make sure a police crash report was written, get treated, and have your own auto policy handy when we talk, because its uninsured and underinsured limits may decide the case.

There is no upfront cost and no fee at all unless the case recovers money for you. The fee is a percentage of the recovery, set out in plain terms before you sign, and the consultation is free. If our honest read is that the claim is not worth pursuing, we tell you that at no charge, and you never get a bill for asking.