When you think of a personal injury attorneys, you probably automatically correlate it with motor vehicle accidents, since they compromise most of the cases that these types of attorneys take each year. Yet they are not the only ones. Personal injury law also covers pedestrian mishaps. Pedestrians being injured occurs far more often than you might think. Some accidents occur in the least likely places but the negligent people responsible for the accident are still held accountable.

Most pedestrian accidents do not involve an automobile. The city may have a large, damaged portion of sidewalk that is not corded off and someone could trip and break an ankle. A bike messenger might accidentally run into someone as they zipped down the sidewalk instead of using the road. There are all types of cases covered under personal injury law.

One of the most bizarre cases where a personal injury attorney had to become involved was the case of a 76 year old woman walking on a pedestrian bridge. A teenager, disobeying the posted signs notifying that no skate boards or bicycles were allowed, ran into the woman and caused her significant bodily damage. The lawyer could not sue the teenager because obviously the teen did not have any assets to help pay for the woman’s medical expenses. But he did sue the teen’s parents and their home owner’s insurance covered the woman’s medical expenses and she received fair compensation for her pain and suffering.

There are many cases of pedestrians suffering personal injuries due to faulty crosswalks, overgrown hedges that obscured the vision from oncoming traffic and even sidewalks causing people to trip and fall. In most of those cases someone was at fault. In those examples it was the fault of the city or the county for not maintaining the streets, sidewalks and crosswalks.

It is comforting to know that personal injury law is there for you when you need it. If you are hurt due to someone else’s negligence, or even a city’s negligence, then you need to have the law on your side to pay for your medical expenses. Some claims may be dismissed by a judge but you will not know unless you make the injury claim. Hire a personal injury lawyer to help you win your case and get you the money you need.