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Cole, Cole, Easly and Sciba Trial Attorneys can help you when you’re injured as a pedestrian in Victoria.
Walking through Victoria should be one of the simplest parts of your day. But that all changes when you’re struck by a driver or hurt in a fall over a broken piece of sidewalk.
We can explain everything and guide you through it.
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Maybe you’re crossing Navarro after shopping, heading on foot through downtown near DeLeon Plaza, walking the trails around Riverside Park, or just making your way from a parking lot to a store along Zac Lentz Parkway.
None of those everyday moments should put you in danger, and you expect drivers to notice pedestrians, slow down, and give people enough room to move safely. So when that doesn’t happen and you get hurt, it’s extremely demoralizing. But at the same time, you don’t have to get a lawyer to file a claim. If you feel like the situation is straightforward enough to where you can handle it on your own, that’s certainly your prerogative.
But most of the time, pedestrians in your position are overwhelmed. That’s when getting a lawyer makes sense.
Our Victoria pedestrian accident lawyers can:
Every pedestrian accident has its own facts, even if many of them happen for the same basic reasons. But when you’re the one injured, it becomes very real and very personal.
After a pedestrian accident, most people know they need help—they just don’t know what that help is supposed to look like. You’ve got medical bills starting to come in, you may be missing work, and the driver’s insurance company is already asking questions before you’ve had much time to process what happened. At that point, your legal options usually come down to two paths:
You get to decide which option to go with, but one way or the other, the goal stays the same: recovering damages for what this accident has cost you:
Texas generally gives you two years to file most personal injury lawsuits, so starting sooner usually means stronger evidence and fewer missing details later.
Your options for filing a claim after your pedestrian accident follows a general path, but the actual information you’re going to need for a strong claim aren’t necessarily as uniform. Everything comes down to the details, and what you’re trying to do is show what happened and what it’s left you with. Here’s what you’ll need to do that:
Even smaller details can end up carrying weight, especially when it comes time to answer the big question: who’s responsible for this?
Once things settle down at the scene and you start to take stock of what happened, a simple, yet elusive question comes up: who’s responsible for the accident itself?
Legally, that question is liability, and it matters because the person or group that caused the accident is usually the one that has to pay for the damage that followed. In most pedestrian accident claims, liability comes down to negligence—someone failing to use reasonable care when they should have. With that, the legal responsibility could fall on:
Depending on what happened, responsibility can also involve:
So as you can see, it’s not always just the driver that’s going to be responsible for paying your damages—even though they’re usually the primary one. It comes down to the actual specifics of the accident.
We’ve talked a lot so far about how dangerous pedestrian accidents are for you and everyone else in Victoria. But one thing that gets overlooked is that they happen in everyday places—usually with the same underlying causes:
That’s why pedestrian accidents tend to cluster around places like Navarro shopping areas, Laurent intersections, downtown crossings, and large parking lots where cars and foot traffic constantly overlap. But again, they can happen anywhere. And when they do, you don’t want to be the one trying to take on everything by yourself.
Texas generally gives you two years to file most pedestrian injury lawsuits, though waiting too long can make evidence harder to track down.
That makes things tougher, but you’ll still be able to file a claim for a hit-and-run. If the driver flees, try to remember everything you can about the car.
The city doesn’t control every sidewalk there is. So if a piece is broken, the exact location matters. It could be part of a city sidewalk, but it could also be the responsibility of a homeowner, HOA, or business. That’s why you should focus on getting pictures and the exact location of your fall.
A pedestrian accident can leave you dealing with pain, missed work, transportation issues, medical bills, and a lot of uncertainty all at once. That’s hard enough physically. You shouldn’t also have to guess your way through the claims process.
Our Victoria pedestrian accident lawyers at Cole, Cole, Easly and Sciba Trial Attorneys can help you understand your options, gather the right evidence, and deal with the insurance company so you’re not carrying every part of this alone.
Set up a free consultation today.
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In 1954, Emmett Cole, Jr., returned to the crossroads area to found our practice after working a year at a Houston law firm.
We have provided effective, ethical legal representation throughout Texas and nationwide for more than 50 years.
