Afer An Accident Get A Free Consultation From An Experienced Injury Lawyer

by Emery Brett Ledger on Mar. 27, 2011

Accident & Injury Car Accident Accident & Injury  Personal Injury Accident & Injury  Wrongful Death 

Summary: According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), every year there are more than 6,000,000 car accidents with more than 1,500,000 injuries and more than 20,000 deaths.

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While getting informed and gaining as much knowledge as possible is always a good idea, the best way to find out if you have a case and to fully understand your rights is to have a free, confidential initial consultation. The hard-working legal professionals at Ledger & Associates have helped a vast array of clients and their families who have been injured or killed due to the negligence, carelessness or willful intent of others.

It will probably surprise no one that car accidents are the leading cause of avoidable deaths in the United States. According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), every year there are more than 6,000,000 car accidents with more than 1,500,000 injuries and more than 20,000 deaths. Yes, these are sobering statistics. While most car accidents are caused by driver negligence there is an increasing amount that are caused by external events. For example, you could get into an accident because your mechanic installed your cars tires incorrectly. There are countless ways for something to fail in your vehicle that causes you to crash and cause great harm to your vehicle or your person. An accident caused not by your or another drivers error but by the work of another. If that's the case, a car accident law firm would be a great place to start to ensure that you are protected under the law. Now, tires are not the only thing that can fail on a car - brakes, steering or even the engine itself. Sometimes human error or gross negligence can cause a car to lose control, fires to start, brakes to fail etc., etc. Human beings make cars and fix cars and sometimes they make mistakes. Unfortunately, when dealing with cars traveling at great speeds, those mistakes can cause serious injury or even death. Prosecuting such cases, holding a mechanic or an auto technician liable, are incredibly complicated to undertake are require only the most experienced auto accident personal injury lawyer. As with any legal action against a corporation, your auto accident attorney will have to prove that the automobile failure, the malfunction that caused your accident, was not performed to the appropriate standards and that it specifically caused your accident and injuries. Now, let's say that nothing on your car failed. Let's day you got into an accident because something on another vehicle failed - a tire or a foreign object flew off another car, struck yours and caused injury or even death. These types of accidents occur all of the time and they are very challenging cases to pursue. Catastrophic auto accidents injuries such as these require a great deal of legal expertise and absolutely necessitate an experienced auto accident lawyer. To be remunerated by either your insurance company, the guilty parties insurance company or to be financially compensated, negligence usually must be discovered and proved. In any case where a qualified auto accident lawyer will need to work on your behalf to gather the police report, eyewitness testimony, expert witness testimony, photographs, sketches and prove that negligence exists. If you have suffered a personal injury from an auto accident of any type and need help determining whether or not you have a case, seek the advice and counsel of an experienced auto accident attorney as soon as possible to determine what legal options you may have. For a free and detailed evaluation with a auto accident lawyer at Ledger & Associates, please call 1-800-300-0001 or visit the firm's website for more information at www.ledgerlaw.com.

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