Articles Tagged with No witness to accident

I’m Ed Smith, a Sacramento Personal Injury Lawyer and over the years many clients have come to me with serious injuries and no witnesses to the collision they were involved in.  Although these cases are difficult because the injured party must prove negligent, an immediate and thorough investigation can sometimes save the day. The first thing the attorney should do is have an investigator or paralegal go to the scene and take photographs from every angle. They should go at the same time of day or night as the collision happened. People are creatures of habit and sometimes they leave school, work or elsewhere at the same time every day. Putting posters up at the scene or putting ads in Craigslist also may be productive.

Secondly, look for traffic cameras if the accident happpened near an intersection. If there is a camera there, it may well have caught the collision on film. You can ask the local police department or other agency maintaining the camera for the film at the caught the collision on film.  You can ask the local police department or other agency maintaining the camera for the film at the time of the crash. A few may be cooperative, but most often the attorney needs to immediately send a letter demanding that They preserve evidence on  the date and time of the collision. Them the attorney will need to file suit and subpoena the video. The attorney must act fast because often the film is destroyed after very short periods of time.

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