Car Accident Lawyer Serving South Toms River
Route 9 stops being a local road in South Toms River.
It comes in from Beachwood as a four-lane highway, becomes a divided road inside the borough, crosses Dover Road and then merges onto the Garden State Parkway at Interchange 80, staying on the Parkway across the Toms River until Exit 83. Drivers who are not bound for the Parkway use Route 166 instead, Atlantic City Boulevard, which clips the borough's northeast corner on its way to the four-lane bridge into downtown Toms River, and Dover Road, County Route 530, brings Berkeley Township traffic across the borough to South Main Street beside the river. All of it happens inside a little more than one square mile, so drivers are picking lanes and destinations in a short distance, and the collisions that follow are the late lane change, the sideswipe at a merge and the hit from behind when the line ahead slows. However yours happened, N.J.S.A. 39:6A-4 sends the treatment bills to the PIP coverage on your own auto policy first, and the claim for the injury is brought separately against the driver who caused it, within whatever lawsuit option you selected under N.J.S.A. 39:6A-8. We take these cases on contingency, no fee unless we win, and the first call is free.
What We Know About South Toms River Cases
When the other driver fights the summons written at the scene, you can be subpoenaed as a witness, and because the borough's municipal court sits mainly by Zoom you may give that evidence from your kitchen table, but it is still sworn and recorded testimony about speed, distance and how you felt afterward, and an insurer can obtain the recording later, so we prepare you for that session as carefully as for a deposition.
New Jersey permits a stripped-down basic auto policy that can carry no bodily injury liability coverage at all and no uninsured motorist coverage, so when the driver who hit you bought one, payment for a serious injury has to come from the uninsured and underinsured motorist coverage on your own standard policy, which is why both declarations pages are the first documents we read.
South Toms River police write the report for a collision on Route 9, Route 166, Dover Road or a side street, the State Police write it for one on the Parkway's own lanes, and a lawsuit from either is filed just across the river, at the Superior Court for Ocean County, civil filings at 118 Washington Street in Toms River, inside the two years N.J.S.A. 2A:14-2 allows.