Car Accident Attorneys Serving Depew, New York
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For many — if not most — New York residents, driving is part of everyday life. Unfortunately, no matter how careful you are on the road, there’s always a chance of getting involved in a car accident.
If you’ve been injured in a car accident someone else caused, you deserve compensation to help you cover medical costs and other expenses.
At Campbell & Associates, we understand that no amount of money can take back your car accident or the harm it has done to you. However, we hope that by fighting to win compensation for you, we can help you get back on the road to a brighter future. Reach out to us online or give us a call for a free case consultation!
Minor fender-benders might not have much of an effect on your life. However, serious car accidents can have devastating lifelong consequences. These are some of the most common injuries we’ve seen in car accident victims.
Usually, your skull protects your brain from hard impacts. However, the force of a car accident is often enough to cause a traumatic brain injury (TBI). You can get a TBI even if an outside object doesn’t hit your head. When a car rapidly accelerates or decelerates, your brain can slam against the inside of your skull, causing an injury.
Mild TBI symptoms will often resolve quickly. However, more serious TBIs can cause a range of lasting symptoms that interfere with daily life, including:
TBIs are challenging and difficult to treat, especially because symptoms can change over time. Even serious TBIs might not seem serious at first, so you should always seek medical attention immediately if you’ve been injured in a car accident.
When most people think of spinal cord injuries, they imagine “complete” spinal cord injuries. This injury is where the spinal cord is completely severed. When this happens, you lose all movement and sensation below the point of injury. That means if you have a complete spinal cord injury in your neck, you cannot move or feel your arms or legs.
However, there are also “incomplete” spinal cord injuries. These are injuries where the spinal cord is damaged or partially torn but not entirely severed. With an incomplete injury, you won’t lose all feeling and movement below the injury, but you’ll have some loss of one or both.
Internal bleeding can be hard to spot at first. However, it can be fatal, so it’s critically important to diagnose it quickly. Tenderness or swelling in your abdomen can be a sign, but if you have more visible injuries (like deep lacerations or broken bones), these symptoms can be easy to miss.
Even if you think you haven’t been badly hurt in a car accident, you should still seek medical attention — it could save your life!
Often, the sudden acceleration or deceleration of a car accident forces your neck and back into a snapping, whip-like motion. Fittingly, one of the most common (and usually minor) neck injuries from car accidents is whiplash — a collection of stress injuries to the bones, nerves, muscles, tendons, and other tissues of the neck.
Unfortunately, car accidents can also cause much more severe back and neck injuries like ruptured discs and vertebral fractures. Your vertebrae (the individual bones that make up your spine) are cushioned by tough, fibrous discs. When subjected to enough force, they can tear and press on spinal nerves.
In some cases, symptoms won’t resolve without surgery — and even then, they may not resolve entirely.
This might sound like an easy question to answer at first. In most cases, the person responsible for an accident where you aren’t at fault is the other driver — but that isn’t always true. Here are some of the third parties who may be partially or totally at fault for your accident.
Borden Road is infamous for always having construction going on. Many people avoid it because they’d rather not deal with the traffic delays, but that’s not the only hazard that comes with roadwork.
Most road crews know how to avoid interfering with traffic. But all it takes is one mistake — like backing a work vehicle too close to the road — to cause a serious accident.
Without regular maintenance from NYSDOT (New York State Department of Transportation ) and other agencies, New York’s roads would quickly deteriorate and become dangerous, and sometimes, necessary repairs can fall through the cracks.
In many cases, missed or incomplete road maintenance leads to annoyance at worst. However, it can sometimes be catastrophic. For example, I-90 doesn’t have guardrails everywhere — they’re only placed where rolling off the road could be incredibly dangerous.
NYSDOT repairs broken guardrails as needed. If the agency has known about a broken guardrail for months, doesn’t fix it, and then a driver is killed because their vehicle rolled down a ravine the rail was supposed to block, NYSDOT could be found partially at fault.
Commercial trucks can cause incredible damage to passenger vehicles. If you are injured in an accident with one, you might assume the truck driver is at fault. That’s commonly the case, but sometimes, the trucking company itself may be responsible.
For example, if the trucking company is responsible for maintaining their vehicles and does not keep them in good working order, a mechanical failure may cause a crash. Some unscrupulous trucking companies even pressure their drivers to skip legally required breaks. Skipping these breaks can lead to fatigued driving, which, in turn, can lead to accidents.
Car manufacturers are responsible for ensuring their vehicles are safe to drive. But sometimes, there’s a design flaw or defect — in your car or the other driver’s — that leads to an accident. If this happens, you may be able to sue the car manufacturer for damages.
It’s important to note that liability for car accidents isn’t all or nothing. There may be multiple at-fault people or organizations involved in your accident, and a car accident attorney serving in Depew can help determine who or what they are.
In the wake of a car accident, everything can start to feel overwhelming. But when you have an experienced car accident lawyer on your side, you have someone who will advocate for you and guide you through the often-confusing legal process.
At Campbell & Associates, we believe that if you’ve been injured in a car accident you didn’t cause, you shouldn’t be left to deal with the aftermath alone.
Our firm’s founder, Colin Campbell, is a trial attorney and former judge with more than three decades of experience, and all of our attorneys are dedicated to giving injured residents of western New York the quality representation they deserve.
If we agree to take your case, you pay us nothing unless we win. Please contact us and set up your free consultation today!
