After a crash with no witnesses, most people assume the case is their word against the other driver’s and that without someone who saw it happen, there is no way to establish what actually occurred. Insurance adjusters know this assumption exists and count on...
Nobody walks away from a car accident and says, “this was entirely my fault, please hold me fully liable.” That’s not how it actually happens. What actually happens is someone says, “I didn’t even see you coming” while checking on...
“It didn’t seem like a big deal at the time.” We hear some version of that sentence constantly, usually from someone calling three or four days after a fender-bender, once their neck has stiffened up or their back won’t let them sleep. Nobody...
“I had the green light” is usually the first thing someone tells us after a T-bone crash, and it’s usually true. It’s also, on its own, often not enough to close out the fault question in North Carolina the way most people expect it to. T-bone...
Ask most people who’s at fault when a left-turning car collides with an oncoming vehicle, and they’ll tell you the same thing: the driver turning left is always to blame. That’s a reasonable starting assumption, and it’s usually right. But...
Most people picture a multi-car accident as one big, chaotic event with one clear villain. It rarely works that way. A five-car pileup on I-85 is usually two or three smaller collisions stacked on top of each other in the space of a few seconds, and each of those...
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