The transportation analytics company INRIX recently ranked Houston seventh among all cities in the United States in traffic congestion, with the average driver losing 66 hours to traffic-related delays. With so many cars on local roads, it should hardly be a surprise to hear that major highways are one of the most common places for traffic collisions to occur in Space City, or that wrecks on thoroughfares like I-10, I-45, and the Inner Loop often have life-altering or even life-threatening consequences.
What may be more surprising to hear, though, is that successfully filing a civil suit over a highway car accident in Houston can be an extremely challenging process, even if it seems obvious to you that a specific other person is to blame for your crash-related losses. If you were injured in an interstate or state highway wreck recently, getting support from the capable traffic injury lawyers at Mostyn Law could make all the difference in how well your pursuit of civil compensation goes and what amount of money you ultimately receive.
Identifying Legal Negligence on a Houston Highway
In theory, someone who recklessly or carelessly causes a traffic accident resulting in injury is equally “negligent” under civil law, regardless of where that accident actually occurs. In practice, though, people injured in traffic accidents on Houston highways often struggle to clearly establish civil fault for their injuries, primarily because evidence that is very often available after other types of wrecks—for instance, traffic light camera footage and eyewitness testimony—can be much harder to come by after a highway collision.
Furthermore, many highway crashes involve two or more cars traveling at high speeds prior to colliding, resulting in catastrophic structural damage. This makes it difficult to determine retrospectively exactly who swerved into the other and which driver bears the majority of the blame for the incident. This can make legal roadblocks to recovery like “comparative fault” even trickier to navigate around than usual—but with help from our team, you will be able to proactively build and pursue the strongest claim possible.
What Damages Can Legal Counsel Help You Recover?
Money alone cannot always erase every form of physical, psychological, or even financial harm that a Houston highway auto accident can cause. What civil recovery can do, though, is mitigate the negative impacts that those forms of harm have on your life as a whole, specifically by compensating you for things like:
- Medical expenses for both past and future care
- Lost working capacity and/or working earnings
- Car repair costs and other expenses stemming from personal property damage
- Disability-related expenses for things like assistive equipment, home modifications, and in-home care
- Physical pain and suffering
- Emotional trauma and distress
- Decline in overall enjoyment of life
Our team can help you pursue the restitution you deserve within applicable filing deadlines, which may limit you to just two years to file suit after the date of your crash.
Contact Our Houston Attorneys for Help After a Highway Car Accident
Interstate travel is a regular part of everyday life for many Houstonians, and most trips taken on interstate highways are thankfully uneventful. Unfortunately, sometimes it just takes one irresponsible act by one person to cause a high-speed traffic accident with devastating repercussions.
You have support available from the dedicated legal professionals at Mostyn Law in enforcing your right to civil recovery after a highway car accident in Houston. Learn more by calling today.
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