According to the Governors Highway Safety Association (GHSA), New Mexico is the deadliest state in the country for pedestrians, with more fatalities per 100,000 residents than any other state in 2017. 2018 is on track to be just as deadly. Albuquerque alone is tallying 84 pedestrian deaths by early December. Final statistics for the year are not yet available. This comes at a time when pedestrian deaths are spiking across the country. According to GHSA data, 2018 was the deadliest year for pedestrians in the last 28 years, with 6,227 fatalities. When these many people are killed, we can only imagine the number of people suffering serious injuries.
Depending on the details surrounding a pedestrian accident, the person struck by the vehicle may be entitled to recover compensation from the at-fault driver. Because these types of accidents often leave a pedestrian with traumatic injuries and a lengthy recovery process, the pedestrian accident attorneys at Keller & Keller seek out all possible sources of recovery for our clients.
How Our Albuquerque Personal Injury Attorneys Can Help
If you or a loved one is hit by a car on a dark Albuquerque or Santa Fe street, there could be several parties who are liable for compensating you for your losses, and our personal injury team will identify them. What happens if I get into an accident with an uninsured driver? For example, if a pedestrian is struck by a driver who is found to be uninsured or flees the scene, we will contact the accident victim's own insurance company to determine if their coverage will pay for medical expenses, pain and suffering, and lost wages that the at-fault driver would otherwise be responsible for paying. To be compensated in this scenario, the pedestrian's insurance policy will need to contain uninsured motorist coverage.
