In Huston, Texas an average week includes eleven fatal cars cashes causing twelve deaths, mainly men, with a total yearly average of 640 individuals.  The Huston metro area accident rate is deadly.   The Huston Chronicle reported that in seven days in June 2018,  2,777 car crashes were reported.  While Huston has set a record of accidents at a rate higher than the national rate, the New York Time, published in 2017, that there is a nationwide trend of increasing traffic accidents and deaths.  Despite the sophisticated improvements in car safety using electronic stability control systems to prevent skids, more airbags, and rearview cameras the National Safety Council has reported an increased rate in accidents and fatalities.  It is speculated that the causes of this increase in the rate of car accidents are related to both the addition of cars on the roads and distracted driving.

If you were injured in a car accident, you should retain a Houston car accident lawyer within 24 hours after the date of the injury.  The attorney will advise you how to go forward and will discuss the Texas laws that would be relevant in your case. In Texas, there is a two-year time limitation, referred to as a statute of limitations.  Your lawsuit must be filed within this statutory period.  If the limitation period closes before you filed the lawsuit, you will not prevail, and your case will be dismissed.

Your Houston car accident lawyer has the responsibility to determine the strength of your case based upon a negligence theory which is a four-step analysis of the facts.  When driving a car, we have a duty to each other to drive carefully and in conformance with the driving regulations or code of your state.  If you violate the code, then it is said that you breached that duty owed to the public.  But breaching the duty is not enough.  The attorney must establish that the breach of the duty was the cause of your injury.   Establishing the cause of an injury sometimes can be a complex analysis. Your driving ability will also be analyzed to rule out if you participated in the cause of your injury.  If you caused more than 50 percent of your injury, under Texas’s Comparative Negligence Rule you will not be able to recover for any damages.

In other words, if the driver that injured you was 100% at fault, then you will receive total money damages.  If you were more than 50 % at fault, you would receive nothing.   If you were less than 50% at fault, the damage award is proportional to the percent of the fault of both parties.

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https://johnsongarcialaw.com/car-accident-lawyer/
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https://www.sutliffstout.com/injury-guide/texas-is-fault-state/