Pedestrian Accident Facts and Statistics

Our local Atlanta pedestrian accident lawyers and attorneys have extensive legal experience and knowledge you will need in pursuing and ultimately resolving your claims for injury involving pedestrians, runners, bikers, rollerbladers and skateboarders that are involved in crosswalk accidents with automobiles. In certain circumstances, pedestrians in Georgia have the right to use certain parts of the road. If you have been injured, it is all too frequent that you will need to involve a pedestrian injury attorneys because car and truck drivers not only ignore Georgia's laws when they and collide with pedestrians who walk outside the fog-line on a roadway or other right of way area but they also deny any wrongdoing for causing the collision and will instead put blame on the pedestrian. Frequently, a driver is adjusting the radio, attending to a child, or worse, texting or talking on the phone and not paying attention to what is clearly in front of the vehicle. Most pedestrian accidents occur in Georgia due to in attentive drivers.

Types of Pedestrian Accidents and Injuries

Both Pedestrians and cyclists are legally permitted to use public roads and streets. If such a person is struck by a car or truck while in a cross walk and while the walk signal is green or white, the injuries can be catastrophic and may call for significant compensation to make up for medical bills and lost income not to mention the enormous pain and suffering that goes along with severe bodily injury. Since 2004, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration estimates that at least 5,000 deaths are caused when a car, truck or other motor vehicle collides with a pedestrian. Further, each year at least 78,000 pedestrians are seriously injured from such collisions.

Clearly, pedestrians and cyclists are more susceptible to severe injury and even death while on a street or road than are drivers and passengers in motor vehicles. The pedestrian attorneys at McAleer Law have handled numerous cases involving pedestrians and have successfully litigated frequent pedestrian injuries such as traumatic injury, severe spinal injury, paralysis, amputation, deglove injury, fractured arms, legs, and skulls.

Georgia pedestrians injured by cars or trucks should search and hire experienced Atlanta and Decatur pedestrian injury attorneys. Atlanta, with its crowded downtown streets, can be precarious and dangerous for pedestrians attempting to traverse and cross the street. Our Georgia personal injury attorneys have vast experience that you will need when you are the victim of a pedestrian accident injury and can help you succeed in Fulton, DeKalb County or Georgia cross-walk or pedestrian accident cases.

Contact our pedestrian accident attorneys now to recover full money damages that your serious cross-walk injuries deserve -- 404-816-7374.