What Should You Do After the Accident?

You must take immediate steps to preserve the evidence in your case, take pictures and get witnesses to give you their names and phone numbers. then you should get a lawyer to begin investigating the accident scene. Every moment you wait means that evidence is beginning to spoil, witnesses’ memories fade, or their stories’ even “mysteriously” change, the accident scene also changes, and evidence that proves your case also might begin to “mysteriously” disappear. M ore on this website

As soon as we are hired, our Law Office begins our thorough investigation of the accident scene to uncover evidence proving the liability of the truck driver and the other defendants. We inspect all the vehicles, measure the distance from skid marks to the point of impact, hunt for photographic and video evidence, and assemble it all to prove your case beyond a shadow of a doubt.

For example, we were immediately hired by the families of two men involved in a terrible accident with a flatbed rig. The collision killed one of the men at the scene. The other was left fighting for his life for quite a while. The truck driver left his trailer stretched across a dark road on a moonless night, preventing anyone from passing – an occurrence that often happens in accidents involving 18-wheelers. Only the taillights of the trailer by the curb were indirectly visible to oncoming drivers. Our clients rounded a curve and smashed into the trailer. The collision’s force ripped off the vehicle’s roof, killing the driver immediately and critically injuring the passenger. We immediately flew to the scene to begin investigating that same day. Our client’s car had already been towed to a salvage yard by the time we arrived. After examining the vehicle, we noted its strange lack of headlights. Finding this odd, our investigators spotted a security camera on the premises, and we asked to look at the video. It showed an official of the trucking company illegally removing the headlights. When the company tried to claim our client had been driving a car without headlights, we produced the video and caught them dead-to-rights. We don’t have to tell you how this case ended up. You don’t know that law enforcement officials and the U.S. Department of Transportation found this video very interesting. Sometimes, just desserts against those who lie and steal can come with an extra helping of whipped cream when we do our job of leaving no stone unturned in representing our clients. And you get a better idea of what we mean when we say that evidence can sometimes “mysteriously disappear.”If the loved ones of these two men who were minding their business when tragedy killed one and gravely injured the other had waited any longer to hire us, this crucial evidence would have been gone forever. Usually, the salvage yard’s surveillance system didn’t save its video for more than two days before recording it. We can’t think of a more substantial reason you must find a lawyer now, so the investigation can begin while the case is fresh. Because lies and missing evidence can cripple your legal right to fair compensation for an 18-wheeler flatbed trucking accident from the moment it happens.

For any questions, feel free to call the Carabin Shaw Law Firm in San Antonio