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Unfortunately, pedestrian accidents happen regularly in South Carolina. In fact, our state’s pedestrian accident rates rank among the worst in the nation. Many pedestrians who survive these accidents commonly suffer severe injuries and other significant damages. To help support themselves financially, injured pedestrians and the families of deceased victims can file claims or lawsuits to recover compensation.

If you or your loved one were injured in a pedestrian accident, a Columbia pedestrian injury lawyer from our firm can help. Get a free case evaluation from Louthian Law Firm, P.A. so we can assess your accident’s circumstances and fight for your legal rights. With our help, you can get fair compensation from a careless or reckless driver. We’re also ready to take your pedestrian accident claim to trial and prove the driver’s negligence.

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Why Should You Choose Our Columbia Pedestrian Accident Lawyers?

At Louthian Law Firm, P.A., we have a great deal of experience handling personal injury and pedestrian accident cases like yours, so you can rest easy if you choose to work with our firm. Our South Carolina firm also offers a high level of client service others may not provide. We offer:

A Personal Touch

Our family-owned law firm aims to treat you like family. We offer a personal touch to our service. Other firms may treat you like a number, but we won’t. Our lawyers are there with you every step of the way, ready to answer any question and address any concern, to make this process easier for you.

Additionally, since family means so much to us, we understand its importance to you, too. Therefore, we’re motivated to help you and your family through this challenging time by pursuing compensation for you and offering our service on a contingency basis.

The Benefits That Come With Decades Of Experience

Our clients benefit from our attorneys’ 80 years of combined experience handling personal injury cases like pedestrian accident claims.

For example, our clients never have to handle an insurance company alone. We know how to negotiate your settlement for you, protect you from unfair insurer tactics, and, if necessary, handle your case in court. In addition, we know what it takes to recover our clients’ damages.

Also, thanks to our experience and commitment, we have outstanding case results and satisfied testimonials from our past clients. You will know that we intend to fight just as hard for you, too.

Contingency Fee Basis

We understand that pedestrian accidents leave their victims with steep medical bills and property repair expenses. This is why we offer a contingency fee arrangement.

This means you get immediate help from a Columbia pedestrian accident lawyer, but you only pay for our services if we deliver results. Afterward, your pedestrian accident lawyer simply collects a fee from the payout they recover for you.

Since the cost comes as a percentage of your case’s final award or settlement amount, this encourages your Columbia pedestrian injury attorney to fight hard for a high payout.

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What Damages Can I Claim In A Columbia Pedestrian Accident Case?

If a driver or other party behaved negligently and caused your pedestrian accident, this may offer grounds for legal action.

In a pedestrian accident claim or lawsuit, you can seek compensation for:

• Medical expenses for injury-related healthcare, including emergency care and/or ongoing medical care
• Costs for rehabilitation, like physical therapy
• Bills for any renovations to your home you may need to accommodate a disability
• Bills for equipment to assist you in managing a disability
• Lost wages, whether for lost income due to missed work days or loss of employment
• Loss of future earning capacity due to injuries
• Lower quality of life
• Temporary or permanent disfigurement
• Physical pain
• Mental suffering

This is by no means an exclusive list of the damages you may suffer in a pedestrian accident. Get a free consultation from us so we can assess your case’s unique circumstances. A pedestrian accident lawyer from our firm can help you list the damages for your claim or lawsuit.

What Damages Can I Claim In A Wrongful Death Case?

Despite the development of safer motor vehicles, the number of pedestrian deaths due to aggressive driving or distracted driving has only increased in the past decade. We’re so sorry if you lost a family member in a pedestrian accident. As a family-owned firm in South Carolina, we can empathize with you.

In a wrongful death claim or lawsuit, you can demand your and your family’s damages, including:

• Emotional suffering
• Loss of companionship
• Loss of income
• Medical bills that haven’t been resolved yet
• Other end-of-life expenses, such as funeral and burial costs.

Our compassionate Columbia wrongful death lawyers can support you through every step of your case. We can seek the wrongful death damages your family deserves under South Carolina law.

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How Our Attorneys Pursue Compensation for Pedestrian Accident Victims?

As an accident victim or an immediate family member of a victim, you can pursue compensation through legal action. However, you don’t have to do this alone. One of our firm’s pedestrian accident attorneys can pursue compensation on your and your family’s behalf while you handle health and family matters.

In pursuit of your compensation, your Columbia pedestrian accident attorney can:

• Build your case: To begin, your lawyer can investigate your incident and determine the circumstances, such as if the driver was intoxicated or exceeded speed limits. Afterward, your lawyer can collect evidence for your case, such as the police report, and other supporting evidence, such as a written medical statement from your doctor.
• Assess your damages: In addition to helping you determine your damages, your lawyer can determine the monetary value of these losses. Doing so can often prove crucial because it can help prevent the insurer from devaluing your case.
• Negotiate or litigate your case: Your lawyer can negotiate your settlement for you. Negotiations can prove complicated, especially if the insurer or driver does not want to compromise. In such a situation, your lawyer can litigate your case and sue the other party.
• Meet the deadline for a lawsuit or potential suit: Suing the at-fault driver and other responsible parties may be your best option. Your Columbia pedestrian accident lawyer can meet the filing deadline for a lawsuit. South Carolina law gives you three years from the injury to file a lawsuit. You also have three years to file from when you lose a loved one. Note that if the at-fault driver works for a government entity, the statute of limitations only gives your lawyer two years to file a personal injury claim.

Responsibility for a Columbia Pedestrian Accident

The driver or other party who hit you could bear fault and could be held responsible for your injuries. However, even if it’s the driver who personally failed to avoid hitting you, another party may also share responsibility for their careless actions.

For example, if the other party was a truck driver and an employee of a trucking company, the trucking company may be considered another liable party for the incident. Additionally, if the local government failed to maintain a road, causing the driver to lose control and resulting in a pedestrian accident, it may be liable as well.

A Columbia pedestrian accident lawyer from our firm can determine who was involved in your accident, who was negligent, and who’s responsible.

Additionally, a lawyer from our team can prove liability to an insurance company or a court by showing your case meets all criteria for negligence, which include:

• Duty of care: The other party needed to act carefully to prevent harm to other people. In pedestrian accident cases, it’s typically the driver who has the burden to observe a duty of care toward pedestrians.
• Breach of duty: The party failed to act responsibly and carefully (e.g. the driver ran a red light or ignored traffic signals).
• Causation: Their failure to act responsibly resulted in injury to the plaintiff (e.g. refusal to observe traffic regulations that resulted in a collision with a pedestrian).
• Damages: The harm to the plaintiff resulted in compensable damages for the plaintiff (e.g. physical injuries to a pedestrian and/or property damage).

In short, we can show that the other person’s careless actions directly caused your accident, injuries, and suffering.

Some injured pedestrians may be concerned that they won’t be able to ask for compensation if they were partially at fault in traffic accidents – this is known as comparative negligence. However, comparative negligence doesn’t erase the liability of the at-fault driver, so you may still be entitled to just compensation.

Don’t be afraid to reach out to us if this is the case. We’ll still carefully examine all the facts of your accident to prove the maximum amount you deserve.

Frequency of Pedestrian Accidents in South Carolina

The NHTSA (National Highway Traffic Safety Administration) compiled data on pedestrian fatality rates across the country.

The data shows that South Carolina’s pedestrian fatality rate ranks among the worst in the U.S. A total of 160 pedestrian accidents resulted in fatalities in 2019 alone. The state ranks fourth-worst for these accidents, following New Mexico, Florida, and Delaware.

If you and your family now face losses because of a pedestrian accident, you are not alone. One of our Columbia pedestrian accident lawyers can help if a crash injured you or took the life of a loved one. We can help you pursue compensation and hold the responsible party accountable, which could also help prevent people from causing similar incidents in the future.

Common Pedestrian Accidents in South Carolina

Most accidents involving a negligent motor vehicle driver will affect pedestrians. Common reasons why pedestrian accidents occur include the following:

• Backing up a motor vehicle in a parking lot or a driveway
• Distracted driving, such as driving while taking a cell phone call
• Exceeding speed limits, especially in a residential area or construction work zone
• Ignoring traffic lights, such as running a red light or rushing to “beat” a yellow light
• Refusing to yield to pedestrians crossing the crosswalk
• Turning into an intersection
• Ignoring a stopped bus with its lights on
• Driving onto a sidewalk

If a motor vehicle driver failed to observe traffic laws or acts negligently, this may have been a significant factor in your accident. Our attorneys can work hard to gather all possible evidence of negligence in your case.

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What Injuries Do Pedestrians Incur in South Carolina?

Pedestrian accidents can cause severe and sometimes fatal injuries. In addition, certain injuries may never heal, and the families of deceased victims may never recover.

Some of the more common pedestrian accident injuries include:

• Injuries to the lower extremities: Many victims of pedestrian accidents commonly suffer lower-body injuries, such as pelvic fractures and trauma to ligaments and muscles in the legs.
• Injuries to the neck and/or head: Any fall can result in serious head injuries, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). This includes falls on pavement caused by vehicle accidents. You may even suffer certain head or neck injuries that prove disabling or fatal, such as a vertebrae injury or traumatic brain injury.
• Injuries to the upper extremities: These injuries happen frequently, too. They can include injuries to the hands, wrists, arms, chest, and abdomen.

If you’ve been injured in a pedestrian accident, seek immediate medical care and contact our South Carolina firm for a free case review. Our Columbia pedestrian accident attorneys can consider every way that an injury affects your life, health, and wallet. Afterward, we can assess how much compensation you can receive according to South Carolina law.

How to Help Yourself and Your Family After a Columbia Pedestrian Accident?

Many pedestrian accidents leave their victims facing serious challenges. After being injured, you might still be dealing with serious physical pain and feel unable to care for yourself. On top of that, you could still experience psychological or emotional trauma from your accident.

Right now, it’s essential to focus on:

1. Getting Care

If you have not gone to the doctor since your accident, go now, even if you feel fine. After all, many injuries, like concussions, could worsen.

Getting medical care is essential for other reasons, too. For one, it could prove vital for your claim that the insurance company knows you sought medical attention after your accident. Additionally, it’s essential that you start any necessary treatments as soon as possible and assess if you need future medical care for a full recovery.

2. Reporting The Incident

It’s important to report your accident immediately to the police if you haven’t done so. This report could offer invaluable evidence for your case. A Columbia pedestrian accident attorney from our firm can report the incident and ask for the police report if you can’t, as well as request any necessary copies.

3. Seeking Compensation

Seek compensation through a personal injury claim or lawsuit. You can claim damages like medical bills, lost income, and other losses. One of our firm’s lawyers can help.

4. Seeking Protection

With a lawyer from our firm on your team, you won’t have to protect yourself from any tactics the insurance company may use to diminish your case, and you won’t have to defend your rights before a jury if your case goes to trial. Your Columbia pedestrian accident attorney can protect you instead.

Reach out to our personal injury lawyers for a free case evaluation as soon as you can. The sooner you contact us, the more time you give us to build your case and develop a plan to protect your legal rights.

Contact Louthian Law Firm, P.A. for a Columbia Pedestrian Accident Lawyer

Consider working with a Columbia pedestrian accident attorney from our firm to navigate the legal process. With one of our lawyers, you or your injured family member won’t have to file pedestrian accident claims or fight alone in court.

Instead, your lawyer can manage everything for you, fight until you’re properly compensated, and make sure at-fault parties don’t avoid liability. You won’t pay for our services unless we can resolve your case with a payout.

Get a free case review today so we can help you understand your case better. In your initial consultation, we’ll assess your options and give you a better idea of what to expect when working with Louthian Law Firm, P.A. Afterward, if you decide to hire us, we’ll get right on your case and treat you like family.

For your free consultation, call us today at (803) 454-1200 or contact us online.

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Louthian Law Firm, P.A. – Charleston SC Office

215 East Bay St., Suite 403-G
Charleston SC, 29401
(843) 544-7272