A text can easily distract a driver while behind the wheel, and the temptation to look down at your phone can overtake better judgment. If a driver texts while they drive, they can crash into another vehicle.
If you suffer injuries in a collision where the other driver was texting, you should look to recover compensation from that driver. Our vehicle crash attorneys at Thurswell Law could help victims of texting while driving car accidents in Southfield make legal claims based on their injuries.
Texting While Driving and Possible Injuries From an Accident
One of the most important parts of driving is paying attention. The operator of a vehicle must be able to both observe their surroundings and react to changes in those surroundings in order to drive safely.
Distractions can take a driver’s attention away from the road and from controlling their car, and a text message can quickly draw that attention. In the time it takes to glance down and read a text—and in the several moments it takes to respond to a text—a serious crash can result. The driver may not notice another vehicle entering the same lane, or they might drift into another lane, fail to stop in time, or adjust to changing traffic signals.
As a result of distracted driving, a driver can cause a car crash and injuries to others around them. Those injuries can range from severe brain, spine, and organ damage to broken bones and superficial cuts and bruises, but all injuries can cause pain and affect a person’s ability to live as they otherwise would.
Serious injuries can put a person out of work and give them large medical bills, both in immediate care and in the future. After a texting while driving car collision, an injured person should seek legal compensation with the help of our Southfield attorneys.
How Do You Pursue a Legal Claim Based on a Texting and Driving Crash?
A claim requires compensation for injuries and holds someone responsible for the effects of those injuries. Most claims involve negligence. Negligence means a person breached a legal duty by acting unreasonably and caused harm as a result. That harm is expressed in categories such as medical expenses, lost income, property damage, and pain and suffering.
Proving negligence requires evidence of each of those elements (a legal duty, breach of that duty, causation, and damages), and our lawyers could gather that evidence on behalf of a person injured in a crash. Our attorneys could speak with witnesses and obtain traffic camera footage, as well as law enforcement reports and official medical records, to establish what happened and who is responsible.
Our attorneys could also assist an injured person with filing their car accident claim based on a texting and driving crash within Southfield’s statute of limitations. Set by Michigan Compiled Laws § 600.5805 at three years, the statute of limitations can prevent an injured person from getting compensation if they file a claim too late.
Contact our Southfield Attorneys to Discuss Texting While Driving Accident Claims
When recovering from a car accident, you deserve to rely on professionals for help. At Thurswell Law, we know that experience gets results, and our attorneys bring decades of experience for the benefit of our clients.
Our firm could bring claims for texting while driving car accidents in Southfield and charge fees only when we win you compensation. Contact our offices to schedule a consultation.
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