Practice Area
Vehicle & Transportation Accidents
The vehicle and the operation behind it decide which records exist and which questions a lawyer reviews. This category begins with serious passenger-car and commercial-truck collisions in Houston and routes every other roadway setting to its own page.
Detailed Practice Areas
- Car AccidentsA serious car collision in Houston is reconstructed from more than the crash report. The review gathers agency, vehicle, video, medical, and work records and tests each account against them.
- Truck AccidentsA commercial-truck collision is investigated as an operation. The carrier, the owners of the tractor and trailer, the driver’s employer, the loader, and the maintenance provider each hold records the roadway evidence cannot supply.
- Distracted Driving AccidentsDistraction is established from records of what a driver was doing in the seconds before impact, not from the fact that a collision happened in slow traffic or at a green light. Phone and carrier records, vehicle systems, video, and witnesses each show part of it, and the law limits how each is obtained.
- Drunk Driving AccidentsA collision with an impaired driver starts a criminal case, a separate civil claim, and sometimes a question about where the alcohol came from. Each produces its own records on its own timetable, and the review gathers all three.
- Hit-and-Run AccidentsA hit-and-run review investigates the vehicle’s identity while preserving evidence and examining potentially responsible parties and coverage. Cameras, witnesses, debris, and paint may help identify the vehicle; the injured person’s own policy may matter even before the driver is found.
- Rear-End AccidentsA rear-end collision is analyzed as a sequence: how fast each vehicle was moving, when the lead vehicle slowed or stopped, how much distance the rear driver had, and what each driver could see. Texas decides responsibility from that record, not from which vehicle was in front.
- Rideshare AccidentsA collision involving a rideshare vehicle turns on the driver’s app status at the moment of impact. Texas ties the required insurance to that status, and the platform holds records that an ordinary collision does not produce.
- Uber AccidentsAn Uber trip leaves a record inside the app: the receipt, the mapped route, the timestamps, and the driver and vehicle shown to the rider. That record is read alongside the crash report, and the Uber entities and insurer involved in Texas are identified from Uber’s own documents.
- Lyft AccidentsA Lyft ride is documented inside the app as a receipt, a mapped route, and timestamps, and a collision reported to Lyft starts a claim with Lyft’s insurer. Both records are read alongside the crash report rather than in place of it.
- Alto AccidentsAlto describes itself as a rideshare service that employs its drivers and operates its own vehicles, so an Alto collision may involve company employment, scheduling, maintenance, and in-vehicle camera records rather than a contractor’s personal car and personal policy.
- Motorcycle AccidentsA serious motorcycle collision is reconstructed from what the rider could see and do, what the other driver did, and what the motorcycle, the helmet, and the roadway recorded. None of it starts from an assumption about riders.
- Bus AccidentsA bus collision begins with a question the crash report does not answer: who operated the bus. A school district, a public transit authority, a charter or tour company, an intercity carrier, and a shuttle operator each keep different records and answer under different rules.
- Bicycle AccidentsA bicycle collision is examined for where the rider was and what the roadway offered: a marked bike lane, the right edge of a shared lane, an intersection, a driveway, or a sidewalk. Texas gives a cyclist the rights and duties of a driver, with exceptions written for bicycles that matter in these cases.
- Pedestrian AccidentsThe crossing is where a pedestrian review starts: where the person was, what the signal or crosswalk required of the driver and the pedestrian, and what the vehicle, the cameras, and the witnesses recorded when the person on foot could not.
- Scooter AccidentsA scooter collision is reviewed as three questions at once: what the rider did, what the device did, and, for a rented scooter, what the company that owned and maintained it controlled. The device’s statutory characteristics and the location determine which Texas and Houston rules apply.
- Train AccidentsA collision with a train is investigated by identifying the railroad that ran the train, the company that owns the track, the entity that maintains the crossing, and the public road authority, because each holds a different piece of the record and answers under different rules. Railroad employees have a separate federal framework.
- Railroad Worker FELA ClaimsA railroad employee injured while working may have a claim under FELA, depending on the employment relationship, the railroad’s covered operations, and the applicable basis for liability. Covered claims follow federal rules on negligence, safety statutes, and evidence rather than the Texas workers’ compensation framework.
- Commercial Vehicle AccidentsA collision with a company car, van, pickup, or service truck raises two questions the crash report does not answer: whether the driver was doing the company’s work, and what the company controlled about the vehicle and the trip.