Pedestrian Accident Lawyers in Atlanta

The turning driver is the danger, and the law is on your side

The pedestrian crashes we see in Atlanta rarely involve someone appearing from nowhere. They involve a driver turning right on red or turning left across a signal who is watching for cars and never registers a person in the path. Georgia law is clear that a driver must yield to a pedestrian lawfully in a crosswalk under O.C.G.A. Section 40-6-91, and even outside a marked crossing a driver still has to exercise due care to avoid hitting someone on foot. We build the case around what the driver failed to do, not around second-guessing the person who was walking.

Signal timing and cameras decide these cases

When a driver claims you entered against the light, the answer is usually recorded somewhere. We move to pull the intersection's signal-timing data, nearby traffic and business cameras, and transit or dashcam footage that shows who had the right of way. In a downtown or Midtown crash there are often several cameras pointed at the same corner, and getting that video before it is overwritten frequently settles the fault dispute outright.

Pedestrian injuries are severe, and we document all of them

With nothing between a person and a vehicle, these crashes cause broken pelvises and legs, internal injuries, and traumatic brain injuries, and many victims arrive at Grady Memorial Hospital, the region's Level I trauma center. Recovery can take months or years. We work with your doctors to document not only the treatment you have had but the surgeries, therapy, and long-term care the injury will still demand, so the claim reflects the full arc of the harm.

What a pedestrian claim can recover in Georgia

The compensation covers your economic losses, the medical bills, the future care, and the earnings you miss while unable to work, and your non-economic losses, the pain, the trauma of being struck, and the independence a serious injury can take away. Because pedestrian injuries tend to be catastrophic, valuing the future correctly is often where the real difference is made.

You have two years, and the evidence has less

A pedestrian injury lawsuit in Georgia generally has to be filed within two years (O.C.G.A. Section 9-3-33). The camera footage that proves fault does not last that long, and neither do witness memories of a fast-moving intersection, so the real deadline for protecting your case is much sooner than the legal one.

Comparative fault and the blame the insurer will try to assign

Under O.C.G.A. Section 51-12-33, Georgia reduces or bars recovery based on your share of fault, and a pedestrian found fifty percent or more responsible recovers nothing, so insurers routinely argue the victim stepped out or was distracted. We counter with the signal data and video that show what actually happened, which keeps the focus on the driver who failed to yield.

Serving injured pedestrians across metro Atlanta

We work from 34 Peachtree St NW in downtown Atlanta and represent people struck while walking throughout the region, across Fulton, DeKalb, Cobb, Gwinnett, Cherokee, Clayton, Forsyth, Douglas, and Henry counties, and in the walkable districts where these crashes cluster, from Midtown and Buckhead to Decatur, Sandy Springs, and Marietta.

Talk to an Atlanta pedestrian accident lawyer

If a driver hit you or someone in your family while you were on foot, you deserve a firm that will not let the insurer rewrite what happened. Reach a lawyer at (678) 293-9307 for a free case review, or start your claim through our contact page. You will not owe a fee unless we recover money for you.

Speak with a Atlanta pedestrian accident attorney

Common questions

A driver turning right on red hit me while I had the walk signal. Who is at fault?

In that situation the driver is almost always responsible, because a right turn on red still requires yielding to people lawfully in the crosswalk. We confirm it with the signal-timing records and any camera footage of the intersection, which show you had the right of way.

The driver's insurer says I stepped out in front of the car. How do you push back on that?

We do not argue it, we disprove it. Intersection signal data, traffic and business cameras, and witness statements typically establish when you entered and whether you had the signal, and that objective evidence is far more persuasive than the driver's account.

I was hit near a MARTA stop downtown. Are there cameras that might have captured it?

Very likely. Busy downtown corners usually have transit cameras, traffic cameras, and private security cameras all covering the same area. We move quickly to identify and request that footage, because most systems overwrite it within days.