DRUNK DRIVING ACCIDENTS

ADDISON DRUNK DRIVING ACCIDENT LAWYER

INTOXICATED DRIVING INJURY ATTORNEY ADDISON

The state of Texas considers drunk driving as a serious case and if you or a loved one has been a victim of drunk driving accidents, you can seek for the same damages that are claimed in personal injury and wrongful death resulting from other kinds of accidents. People who suffered injuries can get compensation for damage to property, medical expenses (past and future), lost wages, decreased earning potential, pain and suffering. If a family member has been killed because of the accident, the survivors, which include the children, parents, spouse and siblings in some cases, can seek compensation for wrongful death, which can include medical expenses, incurred by the decedent before dying, funeral expenses, loss of economic support, loss of companionship, as well as emotional and mental trauma.

A survival action could also be pursued in drunk driving accidents, which gives the survivors the right to seek for damages that the decedent could have pursued legally had the person only suffered injuries. However, only the closest relatives of the decedent could file for survival damages. The spouse has the primary right then the children, the parents and then the siblings. Survival damages can include medical expenses, damage to property, lost earning capacity, lost income, pain and suffering.

Proximity Cause of Drunk Driving Accidents

An accident that resulted from drunk driving is not considered by the law to be a solitary incident but as a result of a succession of events. A person for example may get out of his vehicle, go into a bar, get intoxicated with alcohol, leave and go back to the vehicle, try driving home and get involved in a car crash. Although it has no physical participation in the accident, the bar would be a proximity cause for the car crash. However, in order to make a bar or restaurant liable for the mishap, you must be able to convince the jury that the business establishment should have recognized that the patron is already intoxicated. There are a couple of methods that are mandated to drinking establishments by Texas law in identifying patrons who are already drunk, which are circumstantial and direct evidence.

In majority of drunk driving accidents cases, the driver has drunk excessively and is far beyond the intoxication point. Business establishments can stop such accidents from happening by identifying drunk customers, refusing to give more services to them and finding them transportation that will take them home safely. The plaintiff must be able to prove in court that it was in fact the bar that caused the accident and that the obvious intoxication of the patron made an accident inevitable.

Suffering an injury from an accident caused by a drunk driver after the person left a bar or other establishments serving alcohol may give you the right to sue the establishment under the dram shop law of Texas, which imposes liability to vendors that serve alcohol to drivers who consequently injure other people. In Addison, you should get in touch with a lawyer from an Addison Law Firm to know your rights under the law. We consider drunk driving accidents to be inexcusable and will litigate on your behalf to get the best compensations for your injury or the wrongful death of a loved one. Contact an attorney from The Goolsby Law Firm today.

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