Accidents Support Group

the lady that was drinking and driving and hit me when i was walking and her lawyer are saying that i was walking on the wrong side of the road so therefore its my fault BS

You aren't alone. At first I felt like the things that were being said were a personal insult to me. This has been going on since Oct. 2004. It is all a legal chess game to see if you give up.

When I was in an accident, my car wasn't running & I was trying to exit it when I was rear ended. The other driver tried saying I could have been intoxicated, I could have been using illegal drugs, etc. My lawyer explained to me that they will use any excuse in the paper work right from the start.

Why the law allows all of the "games" to go on is beyond me. To them it is just business but to the person in pain 24/7 and having physical limitations on top of the pain it is very personal.

I wish you the best of luck. Make sure you have a lawyer who is on your side so to speak & not one just in it for money.

Feel free to contact me anytime if you like.

when they want to get out of trouble thats what they do u fight for ur case dont let it go

The man that hit me fled the scene and later said he did not hit me that someone stole his truck hit me and brought it back. I did get money from his insurance company. 15,000 dollars. After the lawyer got his and the welfare office got theirs I got less than 11,000. My medical bills are almost 500,000 and still climbing. I can never get another penny out of him because that is the limit he was insured up to and there fore that is the highest amount I could get. It angers me that the little bit of money I got took 2 years and both my husband and i lost our jobs. we were in jeopardy every day of losing our mobile home and being kicked out of the trailer park. I suffered pain and my kids suffered due to my inability to care for them. It is not fair the the victims continue to get victimized over and over again.

i want to do something about this BS. its NOT fair and not right that they can take our lies from us and not have any repercussions. but so far there is nothing we can do. it sucks.

My husband and I have talked about trying to change the law as far as how much insurance someone has to carry. I think that if someone has been getting in trouble wit the law for more than 50 years and has broken every driving law on the books and had already caused the death of an unborn infant and hurt many other people they should have to carry a LARGE insurance policy. Large enough that when, and yes I mean when, they hit someone again that person does not have to suffer financially. Ideally that person would never, ever drive again, but this is the real world and sometimes there are people who live in it with no care for the feelings or lives of others. I do believe it is up to us to make changes if the laws don't work. In the mean time though we are the ones who suffer and whose lives get put on hold and even ruined or changed forever. The man who hit me was 76 years old. He NEVER had a drivers license and the earliest he could have obtained one before he hit me was 2042. His driving record is pages and pages long with violations and accidents. He is a known alcoholic and is also an uncontrolled Diabetic and legally blind. He still drives today! But not for much longer. After a 2 year battle including 3 trials and more hearing than I can count He was convicted of 2 felonies. We find out in 9 days how many years he will go to prison and be off of the road. Many people tole me he would never get caught. He has NEVER done any major prison time. Jail time yes, but nothing bigger than a few months. The cops stopped stopping him because he was always let go because of nasty things he did in jail and because he was sick. I got him. I got him off the road and made my little town safer for me, my kids and the community. Don't let this lady off easy. Make her accountable for her mistake. Not out of hate, or vengeance or anger, but because that is what happens when someone does something wrong and hurts someone else. You make it as right as you can. I am sorry this is so long, but I feel very strongly about all of this as most of us do. It just seems like we get constantly victimized from the time of the accident and long after.

people who are at falut will say and do anything to protect them from paying out money.
I have won against a insurance company for worker compo.
They did and said everything to get me to think i should the suit.
Hang in their.

This is pathetic. Why dont people take responsibility for their their actions anymore?! The comments on this is just so sad. I sadly know all about it though. The accident that I witnessed ended up not going to court because the man that hit the lady that i pretty much watch die had money. I was SO angry. We believe it was the lady who died that is to blame because she did not yield when turning left at the light. Even so The guy got out of his car WHICH I HEARD PLAN AND CLEAR saying he was not paying attention that did not see her. And i saw him with my own two eyes go around me which i was going Just a tad under the speed limit so fast that I thought he was going to hit me. So he was obviously speeding and not even going to slow down for the light. Just to let you know it was a 55 speed limit. Guess what....he wont have a problem with the law all because he has money.... This and all of the other situations on this topic just makes me so sad!