New Compensation Your West Virginia Car Accident Attorney Can Help You Secure
Road conditions, traffic patterns and bad driver behavior are all causes of crashes and the personal injuries that result. West Virginia is a mountain state. Its hills and valleys add a layer of hazard that a negligent driver may ignore.
Despite the unique nature of every car accident, there are some common scenarios our personal injury attorneys see often.
- Sideswipes: A vehicle abruptly shifts into your lane, slamming into the side of your car.
- Head-On Collisions: A car drives the wrong way or drifts over the yellow line, causing catastrophic injuries.
- Rear-End Collisions: Failing to look ahead as cars slow down at a red light can send one car right into another.
- Intersection Crashes: Left-hand turns across oncoming traffic are some of the most dangerous maneuvers on the road.
- Construction Zone Crashes: Confusion around signs, orange barrels, lane shifts, construction equipment and workers can lead to car wrecks.
All of these can bring serious injuries. Sometimes they are fatal.
Our West Virginia personal injury clients have suffered head injuries, back injuries, broken bones, burns, abrasions, whiplash, and worse.
From a legal standpoint, Shaffer & Shaffer has extensive experience addressing common car accident injuries in West Virginia.
Don’t hesitate on your next move. Give us a call. Shaffer & Shaffer will examine your case for free. In a personal injury case in West Virginia, you don’t pay an attorney fee until we win payment for you.
Common Car Accident Injuries in West Virginia & the Compensation You Can Pursue
It’s important to remember that not all car accident injuries are obvious at first.
Get follow-up medical care and don’t consider your case finished too soon, because many common car accident injuries in West Virginia take time to show themselves, or they worsen over time.
Of course, many other injuries you can see immediately. Still, don’t underestimate the long-term costs of healing.
The Shaffer & Shaffer car accident lawyers see these situations occur again and again in West Virginia:
- Concussions from hitting your head on impact will linger after the initial trauma.
- Traumatic brain injuries (TBIs) from an even more severe blow to the head could require long-term medical care.
- Tissue damage to soft body parts like ligaments, muscles and tendons are not immediately visible after the wreck.
- Organ damage and other internal injuries may not be obvious at first but are extremely dangerous.
- Back injuries, including spinal injuries, can have lasting consequences.
- Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) means damage to your mental health that you may struggle with and need to seek help for a long time.
- Injuries to your chest from hitting the steering wheel or jerking against your seatbelt are obvious but sometimes underestimated in their seriousness.
- Broken bones can have long recoveries and complications.
- Lacerations from sharp materials piercing your body in the collision don’t just cause obvious wounds and blood loss but bring a risk of infection.
Work with a West Virgina car accident lawyer who pursues compensation for injury costs that might stretch into the future. Shaffer & Shaffer personal injuries know what medical records will give you a stronger case for compensation.
You can seek several forms of payment after you’re injured by another driver’s carelessness:
- Medical costs for doctors, hospitals, surgeries, medicine and more
- Rehabilitation costs including physical or occupational therapy for a long recovery
- Lost income when your injuries disrupt your ability to work, now and in the future
- Mental trauma with real costs that are tricky to put a number on
- Damage to your car or property for your probably totaled car
A wreck can upend so many of your future plans. Sometimes, no amount of money can make up for what you lost.
But the financial relief you can win in a personal injury case helps you through a difficult time, giving you some freedom to focus on what’s important: your family, your life, and getting better.
Act quickly. West Virginia has a two-year limitation on bringing a personal injury case, and that clock starts on the date of your car accident. It’s much easier to win a case when you bring it soon after your wreck, before evidence goes missing and witnesses become hard to find.
Shaffer & Shaffer can do the hard work for you. Talk to us today to get on a path to better times.
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