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Car Crashes In Snowy Weather: Who Is To Blame In A Lawsuit?
Joy Johnson
As winter hits, an increasing number of people will start suffering from serious car crashes. If you end up causing an unfortunate accident in snowy driving conditions, it is important to know who is at fault, why, and how to defend yourself if necessary.
How Snow Can Affect Your Driving
Driving in snowy conditions will have a major impact on the way you drive and the conditions of the road. For example, it will decrease your visibility distance, decrease the pavement friction, and likely cause obstructions in lanes. It can also decrease your speed significantly and increase your risk of accidents.
All of these arguments might seem like a good one when defending yourself in a case like this. After all, the weather conditions were bad and lots of people were losing control. Unfortunately, that is not the stance of most state courts, which can lead to serious legal trouble.
You May Still Be At Fault
The difficulties of driving in winter are usually not acceptable as a defense in a case like this. It might seem unfair to blame you for an accident caused by snowy weather, but you are responsible for your driving when you're on the road.
This includes gauging weather conditions and driving in a manner that is appropriate for the situation. As a result, the person who lost control and caused the accident is almost always considered at fault, due to the concept of negligence.
Defending Yourself In This Case
Unfortunately, it can be very difficult to defend yourself in cases like these. It is likely to be argued that you were behaving in a negligent manner by driving too fast for the conditions. Even if no eye-witnesses can be found to make that claim, the fact that your crashed is almost always taken as proof that you were driving too fast.
The best chance of defending yourself against this case is to claim comparative negligence in the driver you hit. For example, you could argue that the reason you ran into them was because they stopped suddenly after not noticing something in front of them. As a result, you couldn't stop in time because of the conditions of the road.
Cases like this are often very difficult to manage, both emotionally and on the day-to-day management of the case details. As a result, it is likely necessary for you to contact a professional auto accident attorney like Powers Law to help take care of it for you.
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