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Susan Handel is a lawyer who specializes in serious personal injury accidents, with an emphasis on motorcycle accidents resul ng in catastrophic injuries and fatali es. Visit her on the web at www.handellaw.com or call Toll Free Na onwide 800.564.1164 for more informa on. In addi on to having the police report assessed against Ma hew, there were no independent witnesses who observed the actual accident occur. Ma hew could not remember how the accident happened as a result of his head injuries. The physical evidence at the scene of the accident revealed that Ma hew could have very well caused this collision. Then there was the built in unfounded prejudice against a motorcyclist as being a reckless, irresponsible rider that I had to deal with- even though it is the defendant drivers of vehicles who frequently cause the accident because of their failure to observe the motorcyclist. The leading cause of motorcycle accidents con nues to be the failure of vehicle drivers to observe and see the motorcyclist. Ma hew's case was no different. My lengthy inves ga on revealed that the defendant driver had become lost and confused at the me of this accident and was not familiar with the area. I also discovered that the defendant driver a empted to make a right hand turn onto a street that was closed due to flooding and that she a empted to make an illegal U-turn on that street in order to travel back onto the road. Clearly, this defendant driver was not thinking clearly and was not driving responsibly. My inves ga on revealed that the defendant driver was ina en ve as to her surrounding traffic and that she never observed Ma hew un l he impacted with her vehicle. Had the defendant driver been aware of her surrounding traffic, she would have observed Ma hew and been able to avoid the collision completely. The bo om line is that the defendant driver was not paying a en on to her surrounding traffic, that she failed to observe Ma hew, and that she made a right hand turn directly in Ma hew's path, and caused the resul ng accident. I made a demand for the defendant's insurance policy limits of $1,500,000.00 (One million five hundred thousand dollars) with a zero offer from AAA, the defendant's insurance carrier. I filed a lawsuit and li gated Ma hew's case vigorously. I no ced the defendant driver's deposi on, intending to prove that she was not truthful about the facts of the accident, that she was not a credible witness, and that she alone caused the accident. AAA contacted me before the defendant driver's deposi on was to take place, and tendered the defendant's policy limits of $1,500,000.00 to Ma hew. AAA was concerned that I would prove the defendant driver did in fact cause Ma hew's accident and clearly, they wanted this case se led with no chance of it ever going to Court. www.HandelLaw.com The moral of the story-always ride safe-and never give up, even when the police report is against you! See our WheelsOfGrace.com Volume 9 Issue 5 11 WITH THE