Dallas DART Accident Attorney
Accidents involving DART (Dallas Area Rapid Transit) buses can happen in a number of ways. Given that there are hundreds of thousands of commuters almost everyday that use DART, accidents involving other vehicles, pedestrians, and bus riders are bound to happen. However, unlike motor vehicle accidents involving cars, injury claims involving DART buses must be filed within a fairly short period of time. Additionally, DART, as a public transportation authority, investigates itself when injury accidents are involved. As a result, unless you’re represented by a personal injury lawyer who undertakes and investigation of his or her own, any “facts” determined by an accident investigation will be those provided by DART itself.
Determining the Cause of a DART Accident
While it would be unfair to suggest that DART investigators are automatically prejudiced in favor of DART when conducting their investigation, there are no checks and balances to ensure the investigation doesn’t suffer from intentional or unintentional bias. When conducting an investigation, is there any way to guarantee that DART investigators won’t give the benefit of doubt to a DART bus driver who claims he didn’t pull into traffic without signaling, made sure everyone was aboard before pulling away from the curb, or came to a stop in an appropriate manner? The issue here is transparency and disclosure: do you, as a DART injury victim, have any way of knowing for sure that the investigation into your accident was free from prejudice?
DART injury accidents can happen in any one of the following ways:
• A DART bus suddenly comes to a stop, throwing a passenger to the floor
• A DART bus pulls away from the curb before a passenger has completely boarded
• A pedestrian is hit by a DART bus as it turn a corner at an intersection
• A DART bus pulls into traffic and side swipes or collides with other cars
• Debris on a DART bus causes a passenger to fall
• Lack of a security camera on a DART bus contributes to an assault
• A mechanical failure with a DART bus leads to an accident
For these reasons, it’s important to work with an attorney who can begin investigating the cause of a DART accident and assert your rights and interests if more than one person was injured in the same accident.
Protect Your Rights and Interests – Hiring a DART Injury Accident Attorney
After you’ve been injured, it important to talk to an experienced personal injury lawyer for a number of reasons. First, if you have an attorney representing you, insurers (or representatives of DART) are required to talk to your attorney and leave you alone. This protects your rights and ensures you aren’t misled into saying something that could be used later to deny or reduce your injury claim. Secondly, if multiple people were injured in the same DART accident as you were, you need a personal injury attorney who will actively promote your case and ensure it doesn’t get buried in a backlog of claims with DART. Lastly, you’ll need someone who can collect eyewitness testimony, conduct an investigation, and hold DART accountable.
Contact Dallas DART Injury Attorneys at Dement Roach & Stern
At Dement Roach & Stern, PLLC, our personal injury attorneys have the resources and knowledge needed to protect and assert your rights in a DART accident injury claim. To discuss your case and learn how we can help you, contact Dallas DART injury claim attorneys at Dement Roach & Stern, PLLC today.
