The average, fully loaded 18-wheeler weighs around 80,000 pounds, or 25 times more than your car. So after a serious crash with a heavy commercial truck, the occupants of a passenger vehicle might have life threatening or fatal injuries.
When you’ve been injured in a wreck with a semi truck, you suffer heavy physical, emotional, and financial burdens in the aftermath. Funerals must be conducted for those who didn’t survive the crash. You might spend months in bed trying to recover from your injuries. Hospital bills and other medical expenses pile up. And meanwhile you and other accident victims are unable to work. The pain and trauma makes it difficult to move forward with your life and to take the legal steps necessary to hold those responsible for the accident financially accountable for your injuries and losses.
At the law firm of Denena Points, PC, our Board Certified Houston truck accident attorneys understand. Our goal is to shoulder the legal burdens for you and help you make a full financial recovery so that you can put your energy into your physical and emotional recovery.
18-wheeler accidents are complex. Multiple factors likely contributed to the final crash scene. And your accurate identification of all of the parties responsible for causing the crash, as well as their proportionate shares of the blame, is essential to your chance of making the full financial recovery you deserve after the crash injury.
The parties responsible for your pain and loss don’t have to pay you anything unless you take steps to file suit against them and you also adequately prove every aspect of your claim, including the actual monetary value of all of your injuries and losses. Proving the value of your damages can be tricky. It’s essential not to over-inflate your claims. You could benefit from the services of an experienced, Board Certified Houston 18-wheeler accident attorney as you valuate the damages from the wreck.
You must also begin your own thorough investigation of the crash and the accident scene. That investigation could uncover additional parties, like negligent cargo loaders or truck route planners, who might be financially liable to you. If you don’t get a skilled accident attorney on the case for you right away, you could be cheating yourself out of the chance to win full financial compensation for your injuries. If your opponents’ accident investigation is more thorough than yours, they might find evidence to shift the blame to a third party you didn’t even name to your lawsuit. Then they walk away without paying you anything.
At Denena Points, PC, our 14 years of experience with Houston heavy truck accident cases enables us to locate, secure, catalog, and clearly present strong evidence to support your claims. We understand the best way to approach a truck accident investigation, and know how to get the photographs and measurements from the scene that can help establish fault in the case. The measured distances between skid marks and impact points can be very important for instance in showing when or if brakes were applied. Bits of evidence from the scene like shredded tire rubber can be important, and we know how to get the necessary forensic tests done to establish contributing causes to the wreck. We could obtain first responders’ reports, and locate and interview witnesses to the crash to get their information, as well as any surveillance video or photographic evidence that might have captured the accident sequence. Sequestering and examining the vehicles involved might also yield essential clues.
You also need to act quickly to secure and preserve the integrity of any evidence from the accident scene or the vehicles involved in it. It’s not enough to have found evidence: it also must be relevant, admissible in court, carefully preserved, and convincing enough that a jury will understand and agree with your claims.
Accident scenes evolve quickly. Authorities are under pressure to get the scene cleared and traffic moving again as soon as possible. In the aftermath, some evidence can be lost or destroyed. And in the chaos, negligent truckers might have the opportunity to remove or hide key pieces of evidence.
Every minute lost in indecision about hiring an attorney for your case could lead to additional pieces of evidence being lost or destroyed. The wrecked vehicles will end up in salvage yards, and some parts might be removed or sold. Witnesses start becoming confused about what they actually saw. They may forget critical details almost at once. Surveillance videos might be taped over within a matter of hours or days.
So time is an essential element when it comes to winning your case. Remember: the defendants don’t have to prove anything in court. They only have to cast enough doubt on your claim to get it thrown out. The legal burden of proof in the matter rests entirely on you.
Don’t delay: get the legal help you need to build a string and convincing case and win a full financial recovery for your injuries. Call the Board Certified Houston truck accident attorneys of Denena Points, PC at 713-807-9500 for a free and confidential initial legal consultation. Or just schedule your no obligation consultation by filling out our simple online contact form.
We will aggressively work to protect your interests, gather the evidence you need, and build a strong and convincing case for you. Let our years of dedicated experience winning truck accident injury claims on behalf of our clients put the in-depth legal knowledge and practical experience you need behind your case.