Car Accident?
I was involved in a car accident recently where a woman crossed the double yellow lines while manueurving to make a left-hand turn. She took out my left side of car.
I had my two toddlers in the car with me at the time. The accident seemed minor to me – I checked on my babies immediately while calling the woman who hit me to come back over to the scene of the accident.
She did not and took off and had to be hunted down like a rabid dog by our local and state police.
The police report stated that she went home to call her lawyer to find out if she was in any trouble.
I did not ask for an ambulance because I did not want to make a big deal of the event but I was wrong so very very wrong.
My 15 1/2 month-old daughter was injured. My husband, while preparing her for bed noticed several bruises that would be consistent with where the seatbelt would have been. The very next day those same areas turned into huge welts and they just kept getting bigger and bigger. I immediately
I immediately brought her to our pediatrician and the welts turned out to be hives which I still believe were due to the accident because I tend to do this when I become so overwrought and nervous. He also detected that she had an enlarged spleen. He gave her an anti-histimine for the hives but every since then she throws a fit when I put her in her car seat to go anywhere and she is just so emotional about everything.
To make matters worse, the woman’s insurance company refuses to take responsibility because apparently they don’t have to.
She was arrested after she found because she was driving with an already suspended license.
I called our lawyer who informs me there is nothing that can be done.
I just don’t understand it – I can’t sue her and make her take responsibility and yet people sue and get money over the most supidist of things.
It is obvious to me that unless I force the issue, she will get away scott free with hurting my baby – I cannot tell you how angry
and upset I have been over this whole situation. I cry constantly for fear of my little girl and when the insurance company finally came to inspect the damage, I had to excuse myself to get her because she had woke up screaming and when I came out I found the bastard in my car.
Once again the violation I felt was just magnified.
Do any of you have any advise on what I can do to force these people to take responsibility to make amends.
All I am doing while I even write this is just keep crying because I had to bring my daughter back to her doctor today because ever since the accident her stools have been extremely dark and I am just living in fear, hurt, and anger. I was told by my insurance company that if I go through them, that my rates go up and we are just barely making it as it is.
What do I do? Can I do anything? What would you do? How would you handle it?
PLEASE I NEED YOU HELP!!!!.
P.S. Her company is Allstate, if you have them get rid of them now
For any of those who believe it is okay to enter another person’s vehicle without their permission you are delusional. He did not need to enter my car for any reason – anything he might need to know is on record or could have been asked. Period.
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That is definetly wrong and something should be done as soon as possible. There were injuries involved, that’s definetly something. There are 1000’s of car crashes who sue people when no one was injured anyway. But in this case, it’s a baby, none the less.
Shame Shame.
You need to get a lawyer. Her insurance company (if she had it) is responsible to pay for your damages. If she did not have insurance you can sue her in civil court. I wish the best for you and your children.
1… When the woman left the scene, she should have been charged with FELONY HIT & RUN…..
2…You will have to SUE the womans insurance company to get your money back….or car fixed…..
3…Unfortunately the medical difficulties may not be a provable thing….. Your child will probably have some trauma issues with being seatbelted in for a long time to come…..
Contact a lawyer to find out your options…. that is the best course of action that I could advise.
Hopefully you contacted your own insurance company. They should be the ones working with her insurance company – that is what you pay them for. Good luck – I hope your baby is ok.
I don’t know what crackpot lawyer told you that you couldn’t sue, because that’s the type of thing that auto accident personal injury lawsuits were made for. Contact a NEW auto accident or personal injury lawyer and file a complaint against this woman right away. If you can’t find one in the yellow pages, call the bar association in your area for a referral.
While I realize that this was traumatic – the first thing you need to do is calm the heck down. Your daughter go frightened and some minor injuries – but she is still with you and she is going to grow up just fine. She’s traumatized – the same as she will be one day when she falls off her bike or slips on ice. Kids are more resilient than we think – as they say “this too shall pass”.
I don’t know what kind of lawyer you spoke too, but you need to contact a personal injury attorney and speak to them directly — most offer a free consultation and contigency fee plan.
No this wasn’t your fault, but yes accidents tend to put a wrench in our daily happenings. You will just have to deal with it and move with the system.
The people who said you need to sue her insurance company are wrong. You can’t sue them. They didn’t wrong you, she did. You need to sue her and then she gets her insurance to defend her. The problem is that if she wasn’t covered due to suspended license, then you will only be able to go after her personal assets which may not be much. You need to speak to another lawyer.
That said, as someone else mentioned, it sounds like you need to calm down some. If you are having uncontrolled fits of crying and such that could just as well explain your daughters emotional and bowel problems. So, the claims adjuster was in your car. Unless he took his pants off first, I don’t see what the big deal is. He needs to fully inspect the car.
Good luck.