What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? Arkansas
I was crossing the street on a university campus and was hit by a car. I was crossing the street to get on a loading bus and did see the car before it hit me. There were no crosswalks available. I forgot that I shouldn't move after an accident got up immediately but felt a lot of pain. I knew that I had a severe back injury and was taken by ambulance to a hospital, where I found out I have a compression fracture in one of my vertebrae. I had several tests, x-rays, MRI, c/t scan. I have to wear a brace for 3 months that costed about $2,000 of which I paid around $200 and my health insurance paid the rest. I'm taking about a month off work (weekend job since I'm a student) and was prescribed about 4 weeks of painkillers.
The police report says that she said the sun was in her eyes and didn't see me until the moment of impact. The officer decided she couldn't see me because a shadow of a tree was blocking her vision of me, and no citation was issued. The officer interviewed me at the hospital not long after I arrived and I said I had a lot of things on my mind and didn't even see her until the moment of impact. I kind of wish I'd made a better statement, but that is the truth of what happened. He decided that she wasn't going over the unposted speed limit of 15 mph because she stopped immediately and I supposedly was on the ground right where it happened. I doubt that is very accurate, because by the time he had arrived, some people had gotten off the bus to help me as I could barely walk, and my stuff was moved out of the road, which had been scattered (including a shoe that came off during the accident..).
I have talked to an attorney, so I guess I should ask him more questions when I see him again. Just wondering how long this usually takes and what to expect, how much the settlement will be eventually. The police report is a little inaccurate in a couple ways. For example, it says I walked up between parked cars instead of to the side of the cars and that she was able to stop immediately and wasn't going over the speed limit. I wasn't in a crosswalk, but considering it was a parking lot on a college campus directly in front of a loading bus, it seems like she should have been going more slowly if the sun was in her eyes. Was she driving negligently, or am I partly at fault for not seeing the vehicle?
I was crossing the street on a university campus and was hit by a car. I was crossing the street to get on a loading bus and did see the car before it hit me. There were no crosswalks available. I forgot that I shouldn't move after an accident got up immediately but felt a lot of pain. I knew that I had a severe back injury and was taken by ambulance to a hospital, where I found out I have a compression fracture in one of my vertebrae. I had several tests, x-rays, MRI, c/t scan. I have to wear a brace for 3 months that costed about $2,000 of which I paid around $200 and my health insurance paid the rest. I'm taking about a month off work (weekend job since I'm a student) and was prescribed about 4 weeks of painkillers.
The police report says that she said the sun was in her eyes and didn't see me until the moment of impact. The officer decided she couldn't see me because a shadow of a tree was blocking her vision of me, and no citation was issued. The officer interviewed me at the hospital not long after I arrived and I said I had a lot of things on my mind and didn't even see her until the moment of impact. I kind of wish I'd made a better statement, but that is the truth of what happened. He decided that she wasn't going over the unposted speed limit of 15 mph because she stopped immediately and I supposedly was on the ground right where it happened. I doubt that is very accurate, because by the time he had arrived, some people had gotten off the bus to help me as I could barely walk, and my stuff was moved out of the road, which had been scattered (including a shoe that came off during the accident..).
I have talked to an attorney, so I guess I should ask him more questions when I see him again. Just wondering how long this usually takes and what to expect, how much the settlement will be eventually. The police report is a little inaccurate in a couple ways. For example, it says I walked up between parked cars instead of to the side of the cars and that she was able to stop immediately and wasn't going over the speed limit. I wasn't in a crosswalk, but considering it was a parking lot on a college campus directly in front of a loading bus, it seems like she should have been going more slowly if the sun was in her eyes. Was she driving negligently, or am I partly at fault for not seeing the vehicle?