Heavy, fast-moving vans entering Bakersfield neighborhoods can easily cause accidents and leave victims with serious injuries. Victims who get hurt in collisions caused by UPS drivers can demand help with their medical bills and their lost income while they are down.
Maison Law Accident & Injury Lawyers of Bakersfield offers a free, no-obligation consultation for all delivery van accident victims in Kern County. It’s a chance to make sure that large companies are held accountable for their delivery drivers, and that you receive everything needed to make a full recovery.
How Can I Know If I Need a Lawyer for My Case After a UPS Accident?
If you are struck by a UPS driver and you are diagnosed with serious injuries, it’s a good idea to have a skilled Bakersfield truck accident lawyer handle your case. UPS can afford teams of lawyers, and you’ll probably need protection as they are instructed to question fault in the accident and to downplay how badly you’ve been hurt.
These tactics reduce the settlement you receive for recovery.
Our attorneys go to work immediately, investigating what happened, looking into the driver’s record, and the safety policies and hiring practices of UPS. Then we work on getting you the maximum amount on a settlement check as possible.
Our attorneys are often able to win you much more for your injury than if you handled a claim yourself.
Who Can I Hold Responsible After a UPS Van Hits Me?
UPS does cover its drivers with a substantial commercial truck insurance policy. And it’s available for the benefit of victims in most any accident that a UPS driver causes.
Fortunately, UPS generally doesn’t use contract workers to make deliveries. Their drivers are usually full-time employees backed by full company-provided accident insurance. This is good news for victims, because other delivery businesses can use contract drivers so they can deny responsibility if they get into accidents.
UPS backs its drivers and their victims with a $1,000,000 accident policy. Of course, not every victim gets the same amount in an injury claim, even when the injuries are very similar.
It’s often necessary to provide evidence and negotiate from a position of power to earn the most possible from UPS and its insurers. A lawyer helps you back up your case with documentation, even hiring accident reconstruction experts when necessary. An experienced lawyer and negotiator can work to get you everything you need to rebuild your life. This process is handled while allowing you to focus on healing.
UPS Truck Accident Risks on Bakersfield Streets
The physical characteristics of large brown step-vans make it pretty obvious why you would never want to be in a collision with one. They carry heavy loads through neighborhoods like Rio Bravo, and that extra weight can carry more force into impacts. A van’s shape makes it harder to keep between the lines, and that shape can also cause more damage in a collision with a normal car.
You might also have to contend with a UPS semi-truck on Highway 99 veering over into your lane. The size of a big rig also makes the elevated risk pretty obvious. But the other factor, the UPS driver’s behavior, can also play a huge role in accidents and how they occur.
Drivers at work as they travel around Bakersfield can make mistakes and cause devastating collisions with their giant vehicles.
These are just a few of the factors that can cause serious accidents and land victims in Kern Medical Hospital.
UPS Driver Error – UPS drivers are under delivery pressure, and that can tempt them hit the gas and drive aggressively. UPS employees might also become distracted by delivery updates from their headquarters. They may simply take their eyes off the road to check in on Instagram. These decisions can be dangerous when there are rows of packages being hauled along into any impact.
UPS Truck Dangers — As mentioned, the size, shape, and weight of brown vans make them much more likely to cause a major accident. The heavy loads mean that UPS drivers need to allow for more time to slow down and stop for red lights and construction delays. When drivers are distracted, they can cut down on their reaction time even more. With the shape of these step-vans, drivers must not skip checking mirrors as they make turns and change lanes.
These and other actions often lead to UPS drivers being listed as the cause of Kern County accidents. But a CHP accident report isn’t always enough to force a company like UPS to accept blame immediately. A skilled attorney working on your case would gather further evidence to make it much harder for insurers for UPS to justify delaying sending a settlement check.
Contact a Bakersfield UPS Accident Attorney Who Backs Your Claim with Evidence and Fights to Earn You More
Our attorneys never want to see you struggling to pay medical bills after an accident caused by a UPS employee. Those costs are the responsibility of the transportation company that hired the driver and put them on the road. Our attorneys are ready to get aggressive with companies and corporations that don’t immediately accept blame for the mistakes of their drivers.
If you have a serious injury, and a careless delivery driver caused your accident, contact Maison Law Accident & Injury Lawyers of Bakersfield to schedule a free consultation. It’s a confidential, no-obligation review of your case with a real car accident lawyer.
If you end up needing our help to hold UPS accountable, you don’t have to worry about how you’ll get a lawyer paid. We don’t charge anything up front, and we only get paid if we win your case for you. Then our attorney’s fee comes out of the settlement check UPS must write for you.