A recent hit-and-run case in Hartford Connecticut involved a city employee and a number of other people who were injured at approximately 2 AM this past Saturday. The city employee’s, city owned SUV, was struck by a hit-and-run driver who ran a red light. A number of people involved in the accident, in the city-owned SUV, were transported to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. The driver of the evading car was eventually found and provided the police with an interesting explanation as to why he fled the scene. Hartford police say he told investigators that he fled the scene of this Hartford CT accident because he had to go to the bathroom.
Hit and run accidents, by the very nature of what happens, can result in significant injuries to the occupants of the vehicle that is hit. One of the reasons that a driver will flee the scene of an accident site is that the damage to the other vehicle is quite significant which sometimes causes the driver to panic and flee the scene of an accident. In other words, if the damages are insignificant then there is a greater likelihood that the offending driver will stop unless drugs or alcohol are involved, if the person has an outstanding warrant, if there is a problem with the vehicle or insurance coverage or anyone of a number of other reasons which might cause a driver to flee.
If you have been involved in a Hartford CT accident and the driver of the other vehicle has not been located then you can access insurance coverage by turning to your own motor vehicle’s insurance coverage, or the vehicle in which you were driving at the time of the hit-and-run accident, or to potential other vehicles’ insurance coverage, to access the uninsured motorist coverage provision of that policy. In this situation, your insurance company will step in this to the shoes of the offending driver, even though that driver cannot be located. Getting underinsured and uninsured motorist protection is like buying insurance coverage for every driver out there on the road whether or not that driver can be located after causing your Hartford CT accident.
If you have been injured in a CT hit and run accident you need to get the advice of an experienced Connecticut hit and run accident lawyer at the earliest possible moment. Our Connecticut hit and run injury attorneys have written the book on Connecticut car accident cases in Connecticut. Please visit our website at www.HCWLAW.com and download a free copy of our Connecticut accident and injury law book right away. You can fill out our brief online form and give us some basic information about your CT hit-and-run case and one of our Connecticut injury lawyers will be happy to get in touch with you to discuss your case with you in detail. You can also call our toll-free number at 888-842-8466 and speak with one of our CT hit and run accident attorneys to get your questions answered over the telephone. You can even schedule an in office consultation, at no cost or obligation, with one of our Connecticut hit-and-run injury lawyers to have the facts of your case we’ve reviewed with you in detail and so you can determine what you need to be doing and what you should not be doing.
You should not be concerned that you do not have any money to hire a Connecticut hit-and-run accident attorney as our injury lawyers represent injured parties and their families on a contingency fee basis and advance the cost to properly develop your case. In other words, you will owe no legal fees and you will owe no costs unless and until we recover money damages for you. If there is no recovery then you will not owe us legal fees and you will not owe us our costs. We take all of the financial risk in representing you in your Connecticut hit-and-run accident case so you can concentrate on getting better. Contact us today to see how we can assist you with your serious injury case resulting from a Hartford CT accident.