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Being hit by a car in Los Angeles is something you’d never plan for. It’s not like any of us leave home expecting to be involved in an accident on our way to work, school, or the corner market. But with over 50,000 car crashes within LA city limits alone last year, Los Angeles is one of the most dangerous municipalities for drivers, pedestrians, and bicyclists in the entire nation. In fact, your odds of being injured in a car crash in Los Angeles are about 1 in 75.
Sadly, our city is getting even more dangerous in spite of the massive public safety investments and outreach campaigns LA has initiated. LA remains one of California’s top cities for pedestrian accidents
Never accept an insurance company’s initial offer without first consulting a qualified Los Angeles pedestrian accident lawyer. Insurance adjusters in California are not on your side; they aim to reduce your compensation and record all your statements for use against you in this and future claims. It is best to direct all communication to your lawyer. Acting quickly is vital, as evidence deteriorates and witness memories fade over time, weakening your case.
Although hiring an attorney is challenging while recovering from injuries and managing financial strain, a good lawyer can relieve much of this stress. Choosing the right pedestrian accident attorney in L.A. is crucial—it impacts whether you receive the full compensation and support you deserve or end up with less due to an uncaring or overwhelmed lawyer prioritizing profits over your needs.
Los Angeles is the most dangerous county in the US for pedestrians, plagued by heavy traffic, outdated infrastructure, and limited pedestrian access. With over 10 million residents, the city faces severe pedestrian safety risks. Annually, about 30 pedestrians die and 80 suffer serious injuries in accidents.
In 2014 alone, LA had 207 fatal pedestrian crashes, making up 41% of all local fatal accidents, much higher than the national average of 14%. Although accidents occur citywide, 25% of fatal crashes happen at just 1% of intersections, highlighting hotspots like South Alvarado Street and major boulevards where pedestrian risk is highest.
If you’ve been injured as a pedestrian in Los Angeles, you deserve legal representation that understands your pain and fights aggressively for your rights. Our all-female pedestrian accident legal team combines compassionate care with fierce advocacy tailored to LA’s unique traffic challenges. We handle every step from medical bills to insurance negotiations, so you can focus on healing. Trust a dedicated female-led law firm that listens deeply and delivers powerful results for pedestrian injury victims across Los Angeles.
Sally Morin and her Los Angeles pedestrian accident attorneys aren’t like other personal injury lawyers. When they commit to a client they do so wholeheartedly. They handle the entire legal process from the moment they accept your case so all you have to do is concentrate on your physical recovery. No dealing with the paperwork, the investigators, the insurance companies, the bill collectors—Sally and her team handle everything.
How can they provide this concentrated level of dedicated, personal service to each client?
Sally and her team choose to work with hardworking individuals who have suffered serious injuries only. They work with people in need of a helping hand to get their lives back on track quickly, not those looking for some sort of payday from their accident. It’s those people who refuse to let their accident get them down and those who maintain a positive attitude throughout the process that inspire Sally and her team to work their hardest.
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Your needs come first. We’ll keep you informed, answer your questions, and work relentlessly to protect your rights.
If you’ve been injured in an accident, don’t settle for less than you deserve. Contact Sally Morin Personal Injury Lawyers today and let us help you achieve the best possible outcome.
If you’ve been hit by a car in Los Angeles you need an experienced Los Angeles personal injury attorney on your side. While the at fault party’s insurance company will often pay without hesitation in California, your injuries could be worth much more than they offer you. Worse yet, those settlements may not include all of your expenses like lost wages, therapy (both physical and emotional), the cost of you having to hire someone to help you around the house or even just the value of you not being able to do those things – that’s compensable! or obvious things like insurance co-pay’s and prescription costs. California law entitles you to compensation for a lot more than you probably know.
Having an experienced Los Angeles pedestrian accident attorney on your side gives you the leverage you need to get a just settlement or financial award that befits the injuries and damages you’ve suffered.
Not ready to make a decision about your Los Angeles pedestrian accident representation yet?
If you’ve been hit by a car in LA and don’t know what to do, here’s our list of the first things you should do to take care of yourself AND your pedestrian accident case.
The Top 8 Things You Need to Do if You Are a Pedestrian Hit by a Car in Los Angeles
Regardless of whether or not you hire a LA pedestrian accident lawyer, you really should:
1. Call 911 to get the LAPD on the scene of the accident.
They can help you gather the important information you need to build a solid case. BUT, don’t rely solely on the cops for this.
2. Collect all important information (or evidence).
The police will be busy directing traffic, speaking to witnesses and gathering contact information. If you can, take photos of the scene, the driver and their car – with a close-up of their license plate. Get a pic of their insurance and registration too.
3. Do NOT post about your pedestrian accident on social media.
No matter how tempting this might be. These posts can get into the wrong hands and be “twisted” to minimize your injuries and the amount of money you can recover for your accident.
4. Get medical care!
This is really obvious if you are seriously injured, as an ambulance will show up and transport you to the hospital. However, if your injuries are less obvious, you should be sure to get checked out immediately to document your injuries.
After you have left the scene of the accident make sure you:
5. Open a claim with the motorist’s insurance carrier,
but do NOT give them your Social Security Number. Also, don’t let them record the conversation.
How Car Insurance Works After You’ve Been in an Auto vs. Pedestrian Accident
The most direct way to get compensation for your LA pedestrian accident is to file a claim against the at fault party’s insurance. While these companies will try to pay you as little as possible, you can fight back and, if necessary, even take your case to court. If a California driver is uninsured or under-insured, things may get a little more complicated. You may have to rely on your own auto or homeowner’s insurance – if you carry such policies.
All auto insurance companies in California offer uninsured motorist and underinsured motorist coverage with every auto policy, and unless you specifically decline them, you’re covered.
In such cases, your insurance company acts in the stead of the at fault driver’s own. If the other driver has no insurance at all, your California-issed policy should cover the cost of all your injuries – up to the limits of your coverage. If the driver’s policy doesn’t offer enough coverage to pay for your medical expenses, your policy could “make up the difference” if you carry more insurance than they do.
6. Again, stay off social media
with regard to your accident or your injuries. We can’t emphasize this enough. It’s such an easy way for the other side to minimize your claim.
7. Find out if you have a viable LA pedestrian accident claim.
You can do that here now for FREE by completing our online case evaluation form, or just call the pedestrian accident team at Sally Morin Personal Injury Lawyers at (323) 283-8211. You can also Google or Yelp to find the best Los Angeles pedestrian accident lawyer and have a consultation with them. We’ve been helping injured pedestrians in California for over 20 years.
8. Hire a great Los Angeles pedestrian accident law firm
To minimize your stress and maximize the amount of money you receive for your injuries and the pain and suffering you were forced to endure at the hands of a distracted driver.
The top contributing factors to avoidable pedestrian accidents in Los Angeles include:
In Los Angeles, speed is one of the top contributing factors to car vs. pedestrian accidents. Speed also magnifies the impact of a vehicle and can multiply the force applied to your body in the event of a auto vs. pedestrian crash. That means that your injuries will likely be more grievous—possibly life-threatening.
Indeed, the types of injuries doctors most often see in pedestrian accident victims after being hit by a car in Los Angeles include:
Even the mildest of these types of injuries can have long-lasting after effects, require months or even years of recovery, and can leave injured individuals struggling to put their life back together forever. But, if you’ve been hit by a car in Los Angeles, you don’t have to struggle alone.
You may wonder if we’re the best pedestrian accident attorneys for you. Let’s find out. Well, we can assure you that we’re different. You won’t see our ads on the sides of buses, on billboards or flooding your television screen while you’re watching the news. That’s because we don’t believe in inflating our own egos or trying to hook you with false promises. Instead, we dedicate ourselves and our resources to giving the best possible service to our clients. “Quality over quantity” of clients is definitely something we value at Sally Morin Personal Injury Lawyers!
If you work hard, appreciate straight-talk and don’t buy the hype you see in those exaggerated TV and billboard ads, you’ll appreciate Sally Morin Personal Injury Lawyers’ honest approach to California pedestrian accident claim recovery.
Become one of our Los Angeles pedestrian accident clients you’ll see the difference immediately!
Focused Experience
We take only serious injury traffic accident cases in California—we’re experts in this precise field of law, as we focus all energy on these cases. We don’t spread ourselves too thin by handling all sorts of personal injury cases.
Personal Service
You have direct access to the attorney handling your case. We keep you in the loop and never make you work to get in touch with us. We discuss all important aspects of your case with you, we make key decisions
with you not for you and we answer your calls, emails and questions ASAP.
Quick Resolution
We offer quick claims solutions by negotiating on your behalf to get a fair but SOLID settlement in your LA pedestrian accident claim without dragging your case out simply to punish the at-fault party. You can get back to your life without the worry.
Maximum Compensation
We increase your “in-pocket” financial result by pushing back against insurance companies while at the same time decreasing your financial obligations to medical service providers. This lets you keep more money for yourself.
Sally Morin Personal Injury Lawyers Gets Results!
Check out this recent settlement Sally Morin Personal Injury Lawyers achieved for a client in a
Los Angeles pedestrian accident (crosswalk) case on Pico Boulevard and 28thStreet in Santa Monica.
2016 was the first full year that Los Angeles’s ambitious Vision Zero (the plan to reduce traffic fatalities by 20% by 2020) was in effect. The city spent hundreds of thousands of dollars and thousands of work hours on the project but it hasn’t shown any appreciable benefit. In fact, it has done nothing to decrease the number of traffic accidents in Los Angeles.
According to stats reported by the LA Times, there were more people struck and killed by cars in Los Angeles in 2016 than there were in 2015—many more. The number of fatal car accidents in Los Angeles spiked in 2017, jumping 43%. (That’s almost eight times higher than the national average increase!) And in 2018 that sad statistic is on its way toward capping out 25% higher than last year.
But even that figure is tiny compared to the number of people injured in car accidents. Some conservative estimates put the number of victims around 50,000 per year in Los Angeles alone! And that doesn’t count all of the minor injuries that victims don’t feel the need to report.
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Ask Yourself These Questions to see if we are a good fit
If you answered “yes’ to these questions, contact us for solid legal representation and a hassle-free claims resolution experience.
We get solid, quick results without litigation (filing a lawsuit) in approximately 94% of our cases. But, when getting what’s fair for our client requires litigation, we take on the challenge.
For example, we “went to the mat” and litigated a pedestrian accident case to get our client a $937,500 settlement. The opening offer in that case was only $65,000!
Needless to say, we fight for our client’s best interest!
If you’ve been injured by a careless, distracted, or reckless driver, hiring the right pedestrian accident lawyer in Los Angeles is essential for getting the compensation you deserve.
Find out now if Sally Morin and her experienced team of Los Angeles pedestrian accident attorneys can help you. Call us at (323) 283-8211 today or get your FREE LA pedestrian accident case evaluation online now.
Still not sure? Learn more here about whether we are the best attorneys to handle yourLos Angeles pedestrian accident case.
Learn more here about how the claims process works if you choose us to help you through your Los Angeles pedestrian accident.
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It depends on the specific circumstances of the accident. Generally, the party who acted negligently or recklessly is at fault. This could be the driver, the pedestrian, or even a third party, such as a municipality responsible for maintaining safe roads and sidewalks.
California has several laws designed to protect pedestrians, such as:
Drivers must yield the right of way to pedestrians in marked or unmarked crosswalks.
Drivers must exercise due care to avoid colliding with pedestrians.
Pedestrians must obey traffic signals and use crosswalks when available.
Jaywalking is illegal but does not automatically absolve a driver of responsibility in an accident.
Seek medical attention immediately: Even if you feel fine, it’s crucial to get checked out by a doctor. Some injuries may not be immediately apparent.
Call the police: Report the accident and ensure an official police report is filed.
Gather information: Get the driver’s contact and insurance information, and take photos of the scene and your injuries if possible.
Contact an attorney: Consult with a personal injury lawyer as soon as possible to discuss your rights and options.
You may be able to claim compensation for:
Medical expenses (past and future)
Lost wages
Pain and suffering
Emotional distress
Loss of consortium (if applicable)
Property damage
Generally, you have two years from the date of the accident to file a personal injury lawsuit in California. However, there are exceptions, so it’s best to consult an attorney as soon as possible.
You may still be able to recover compensation through your own uninsured motorist coverage or by filing a claim against the driver’s assets.
The value of your claim depends on several factors, such as the severity of your injuries, the impact on your life, and the degree of the other party’s negligence. An experienced attorney can help assess the value of your claim.
It’s generally not advisable to accept the first offer without consulting an attorney. Insurance companies often try to settle for less than your claim is worth.
A lawyer can:
Investigate the accident and gather evidence
Negotiate with the insurance company on your behalf
Represent you in court if necessary
Protect your rights and ensure you receive fair compensation
Most personal injury lawyers work on a contingency fee basis, meaning they only get paid if they win your case. The fee is typically a percentage of the settlement or award.
