Pedestrian Car Accidents

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Occasionally, clients come to see us for help in pedestrian accidents in Virginia, and these usually are involving cars that have struck a pedestrian as they’re crossing an intersection. They’re some of the more difficult cases to prove under Virginia law, but there are certain presumptions that you can take advantage of as a pedestrian when you’re involved in that type of collision. The first and most important is to establish what your position on the road was. That will determine whether you were within the intersection, which grants you a legal right of way over any vehicle entering the intersection while you’re there.The next is to determine what the activities of the other vehicle were that it was doing prior to hitting you, and by establishing, for example, that a vehicle made a rolling stop through a stop sign, disregarded a red light, or ran through a yellow light while the crosswalk was still occupied. Those facts can make all the difference in the world to prove your pedestrian injury case.