Whether navigating Ball State’s campus or going out for dinner at the local Pizza King, you need to be careful on Muncie’s roads. Negligent drivers can blow through the city’s intersections, either on accident or on purpose, and put you and your passengers at risk for life-long injuries.
If you’re recovering from a head-on collision, you need to work with an attorney who prioritizes your right to recovery. Vaughan & Vaughan work around your schedule to ensure that you can both recover from your injuries and take up a claim against the party responsible for your losses. Our Muncie car accident lawyers are here for you.
You Have the Right to Take Head-On Collision Cases to Civil Court
Today’s head-on collision accidents tend to stem from negligence. When you take to the road, everyone around you owes you a duty of care. That duty dictates that all applicable parties must take reasonable steps to prevent accidents. Parties who deliberately engage in negligent or reckless behavior may be held liable for that misconduct in civil court.
That said, you must file a civil claim against these parties if you want to hold them accountable for your losses. Your claim needs to detail the nature of your head-on collision, identify a liable party, and outline the total value of the case you want to bring forward. To complete your civil claim, you can:
Use Evidence to Establish Liability
There are several distinct parties that you can hold liable for a head-on collision. These include:
- Private motorists
- Corporation motorists
- Construction crews
- Government officials
- Pedestrians
- Bicyclists
- Motorcyclists
- Truck drivers working as independent contractors
When it comes time to assign liability for your losses, look at the evidence available at the scene of your accident. What kind of negligence do pedestrians remember? What story does the physical debris tell? Is there video or photo footage of the accident? All of this evidence can help you assign fault to a specific party and thus demand compensation from the right people.
Calculate Your Damages
The damages you deserve for a head-on collision case depend on the nature of your accident. In general, you have the right to request both economic and non-economic damages. You must bring forward tangible proof of both kinds of losses if you want to include them in your initial claim.
The non-economic losses that a head-on collision claim entitles you to do not leave a paper trail. That said, you can refer to Indiana’s civil precedent and state-approved multipliers to establish their value. These losses include your post-accident emotional distress, pain and suffering, and mental anguish.
Your head-on collision’s economic losses, comparatively, do leave a paper trail of bills, invoices, and related expenses. The losses you can demand damages for can include:
- The cost of your post-accident medical care
- Future surgeries needed to restore your overall quality of life
- The cost of repairing or replacing property damaged in your accident
- Lost wages or opportunities for you to go back to work
If a head-on collision accident results in the wrongful death of someone you know and have the legal right to represent, you can file a wrongful death claim on their behalf. You should discuss this right and the benefits of a wrongful death case with Vaughan & Vaughan’s experienced attorneys.
Take Control of the Legal Process
Head-on collisions can steal the sense of control you have over your life. When you work with an attorney to file a civil claim, you can retake some of that control. So long as a court considers the claim you bring forward, you have the right to choose how conversations about the compensation you deserve to go.
For example, you can opt to demand damages for your losses in private negotiations. Both you and a head-on collision lawyer in Muncie can manage these negotiations by communicating with a liable party and presenting said party with an estimate of your case’s total value.
That said, negotiations don’t always let you fight for the total compensation you deserve. A liable party may force you to compromise on losses that you think you deserve. In these cases, you can take your losses before a judge.
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When to File Your Head-On Collisions Complaint
If you want to file a head-on collision complaint against another party, you need to do so within Indiana’s personal injury statute of limitations. The state outlines this statute of limitations in Indiana Code section 34-11-2-4. This statute of limitations gives you no more than two years to act on your losses.
Unfortunately, it’s nearly impossible to pursue legal action against an offending party if you file your claim outside of this statute of limitations. Indiana courts have the right to waive your claim if you file it after your statute of limitations expires.
Should you find yourself unable to investigate your own losses, you can work with a Muncie head-on collision lawyer to stay on top of your filing deadline. It’s our job to give you the space you need to recover from your losses while also ensuring that a judge critically examines the details of your case.
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Head-on collisions put you and your passengers in an incredible amount of danger. These accidents can leave you and the people you care about with severe injuries, loss of property, and even short- or long-term disabilities. You don’t have to let the negligence that leads to a head-on collision accident go unanswered as you fight to recover.
You can contact a Muncie head-on collision lawyer with Vaughan & Vaughan to investigate your case instead. Our team has decades of experience helping Muncie residents like you address personal injury losses in civil court. You can learn more about our experience and available services during an initial case consultation.
Contact us online or by phone today to learn more about the ways we can help you secure the financial aid you need to recover from head-on collision accident losses today.
