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Understanding What To Do After A Taxi Accident
If you were injured in a taxicab accident that a cab driver or someone else’s recklessness or negligence caused, Texas law may entitle you to a monetary recovery for your damages. The team of Houston taxi accident lawyers at Stewart J. Guss Injury Lawyers understands the damages, frustration, and inconvenience associated with a serious motor vehicle accident in Houston. These injuries often require serious and lengthy medical treatments and missed time from work.
When this happens, call the experienced Houston legal team at Stewart J. Guss Injury Lawyers. Our skilled Houston personal injury attorneys are not afraid to take on the insurance company, either through tough negotiations or, if necessary, at trial. Feel free to contact us at any time, and we can address all of your legal questions and concerns. Our intake department can help 24 hours a day, seven days a week or you may contact us now by CLICKING HERE. Taxicab companies and their insurers are never on your side in an accident case. Many times, insurance companies will try to say that you were not seriously injured—or that you were not injured at all—in your accident. In some cases, insurance companies refuse to offer full and fair compensation in personal injury car accident cases. Our legal team works hard to protect the interests of our clients and will fight for your right to recover monetary compensation.
Laws Applicable to Common Carriers in Texas
In Texas, taxicab drivers are designated as common carriers. This distinction has special legal significance. While all motor vehicle drivers owe their passengers and fellow drivers a duty of care while they operate vehicles on the road, Texas law holds common carriers to an even higher standard of care because taxicab drivers are charged with safely transporting passengers from one destination to another for money.
Houston’s common carriers must also comply with other requirements. For example, common carriers must:
- Comply with all motor vehicle inspection requirements
- Pass drug tests and security screenings before operating vehicles
- Regularly complete driver training programs
Cab companies and their drivers face additional regulations. For example, taxicab companies must maintain more insurance then noncommercial drivers. In Houston, that amounts to $1 million per accident. Taxi drivers may not drive for more than 12 hours in a given 24-hour time period. The law also precludes them from using cell phones or any other electronic devices while operating taxicabs on the road.
The experienced team of Houston taxi accident attorneys at Trust Guss Injury Lawyers, understands the laws and regulations surrounding taxicab accidents. Our attorneys can determine if a taxicab driver did something wrong in your case, and if so we may pursue legal action against the driver and the cab company.
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What to Do if You Are in a Houston Taxicab Accident
Some taxicab passengers are injured in accidents where their own driver carelessly or recklessly caused the accident. In other cases, drivers or passengers may sustain serious injuries when a taxicab strikes their own vehicle into another object or person. In either case, the processes and procedures that you should follow after your accident remain the same.
If you are in a taxicab accident, the first thing you should do (if you are able) is to call the police and ambulance to the accident scene. The police need to come to the accident scene to create a written record of what happened during the accident. While at the accident scene, gather as much information as your injuries allow. This includes obtaining contact information from all involved drivers, as well as from any eyewitnesses to the accident. If possible, take photographs of the accident scene, as well as any damage to the vehicles in the accident, before leaving the scene of the accident.
If you were injured in the accident, seek medical care from the ambulance as soon as possible. If you are not sure whether you sustained injuries, it is ALWAYS better to be safe than sorry. Always seek treatment and leave it to a medical professional to determine whether you suffered injuries.
Seek follow-up medical care at a hospital emergency room or urgent care facility. Preferably, go to the facility in an ambulance or have someone you trust drive you there. Let the doctor know about any symptoms or pain that you are experiencing. Finally, follow through with all of the emergency room doctor’s treatment recommendations, including going to your primary care doctor.
Seeking initial medical treatment after a taxicab accident shows that you take your health and injuries seriously. If you fail to seek initial medical treatment but later try to claim that the accident injured you, the insurance company will likely argue that the accident did not injure you at all or not to the extent you claim.
At Trust Guss Injury Lawyers, our team of attorneys and legal professionals are fully aware that serious motor vehicle accidents can result in equally serious injuries and damages. We also understand that you need to make your primary goal after a motor vehicle accident the treatment of your injuries and taking all the time you need to recover from them. At Trust Guss Injury Lawyers, our experienced legal team can begin the grunt work by building your case with evidence and official legal documentation while you concentrate on getting better.
Holding the Taxicab Driver
Responsible for Your Accident
If you have sustained injuries and damages in a taxicab accident, you may take legal action against the negligent driver. Taxicab drivers owe their passengers and all other drivers on the roadway a duty to behave as a “reasonable taxicab driver” would behave under the same or similar circumstances. This means that the driver must operate a taxi in a safe and careful manner, obeying all traffic laws and regulations. It also means that the driver must not engage in distracted driving by texting or using a cell phone without a hands-free option.
If the accident victim shows that the taxicab driver violated this standard of care by behaving in a careless, reckless, or unreasonable manner, then the victim may recover monetary damages. To recover monetary damages, the accident victim must first prove that the accident caused their injuries. If so, the accident victim may recover compensation for some or all of the following:
- Medical and physical therapy bills
- Lost compensation for missed work time
- Related pain, suffering, and inconvenience stemming from the accident
- Lost earning capacity from having to switch to light-duty work (or switch careers altogether)
- Lost use of a body part as a result of the accident
- Lost quality of life or enjoyment of life
To successfully recover damages, the accident victim must obtain a professional and objective opinion that proves the damages occurred as a direct result of the accident.
The team of lawyers and legal professionals at Trust Guss Injury Lawyers are experienced personal injury negotiators and litigators. Our skilled team can work to help you prove the legal elements of your case and can pursue monetary damages on your behalf.
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