This is how to best investigate a hit-and-run accident. Hit and run accidents can be challenging and you’ll often want the assistance of an attorney. After hit-and-run accident, it’s important that you call the police. You want them to investigate the case. The police have resources and they have the ability to look into an accident and potentially solve it. They have access to resources that law firms will not have in that moment. The police will also get to the scene right away, much faster than a lawyer will. So, it’s very important that you call the police, report it, and get the police working on the accident. They can talk to witnesses. They can search license plates or even partial tags. There are systems in place along the roadways that scan license plates. So, they can scan your license plate and search for other license plates that may have passed through the intersection close in time to you. And if you can provide them any information, the color of the car, the make of the car, they can start narrowing down who may be the at fault driver, the hit-and-run driver. But you should also talk to a personal injury lawyer if you’ve been hurt. A personal injury lawyer will do his or her own investigation for you. We’ll try to piggy back off what the police did, but we have our own investigator. We can go out to the scene, too. Sometimes the police are busy. Sometimes, you know, they don’t see that Ring doorbell camera nearby or that business camera up on the wall. We can send our own investigator out behind the police, never getting in the way of their investigation, but behind the police talking to witnesses, seeing if we can get our hands on some video that may lead to the identification of the at-fault driver. In a perfect world, we figure out who hurt you. That person gets prosecuted. We sue them and hold them accountable and even ask for punitive damages for you. But sometimes the police, despite their best efforts and despite our best efforts, may not be able to figure out who that driver is. And that’s okay. You can still have a personal injury case in Virginia. The law allows us to sue John Doe. If we don’t know who hurt you, we sue John Doe. And we still make claims against the different insurance companies, your personal insurance or any other insurances involved. And we can still pursue a personal injury case for you even if we can’t find the person. No need to worry. Call Cooper Hurley, The Car Crash Experts. 333-3333.
