Auto Accident Reporting Rules

Although police aren’t always obligated to create police reports for every crash, you have a legal duty to report your collision. After colliding, drivers must stop, render aid, and provide papers, including their insurance information, when road conditions are safe for validation purposes.

Reports To DMV

You must file cases of death, injuries, or damage worth over 0 within 10 days according to California Vehicle Code (CVC) §16000. The best lawyers will handle these items for their clients suffering from injuries.

Reports to Law Enforcement?

CVC §20008 requires vehicle operators in crashes, including hit and run accidents, to make a written police report about the crash to the Highway Patrol or local precinct. Any injuries or fatalities must be reported within 24 hours of the crash. Our San Bernardino firm offers this service free of charge to retained clients.

Statute of limitations

Your bodily injury deadline time requires you and survivors to sue someone within two years from the crash date, but exceptions may apply to shorten or lengthen this time. Car wreck survivors have three years to file a lawsuit for damaged property. But suing the government shortens the period. (usually 6 months).

We heavily litigate car accident law claims due to these cases’ frequency and severity.

The medical costs alone for car accident cases have severely devastated many car accident victims. San Bernardino traffic accidents affect every kith and kin, especially when they inflict catastrophic injuries or wrongful death.

Our Greater San Bernardino area car accident attorneys have the legal expertise to help people with:

• Open fracture femur breaks, broken ankles, skull or pelvis cracks
• Mild and major post-traumatic stress disorder (‘PTSD’)
• Wrongful death
• Missing digit: nose, ear, fingertip, or foot amputation
• Deflation injury/collapsed lung
• Open cuts, scars, and wounds
• Facet Joint Syndrome
• Edema swelling joints
• hairline fractures
• Whiplash/cervical lordosis
• Migraines
• Friction Burns
• Scrapes or cuts
• Cracked ribs
• Aching Joints
• Slipped disk
• Bruising
• Scratches
• Bleeding
• Head Injuries, including traumatic brain injuries.
  
  

California Auto Insurance Laws

Important State Of California Auto Insurance Laws

You are not required to give anyone a recorded statement or admit distracted driving, etc. All you have to do is provide personal information at the crash site. California’s insurance law system is tort-based, meaning if you cause a road accident and the insurer refuses liability on your behalf, a lawsuit can be lodged against you.

If you did not buy enough insurance protection, you must pay out of pocket. Those car drivers who caused your car accident injuries must be held legally liable to pay their portion of the fault.