Partnering with an experienced car accident attorney will help increase your chances of procuring a change or addendum to the report. Close Menu. Menu Call Email Visit Search. Without one, your chances of recovery become thinner. Some police officers are able to observe things at a car accident scene that allow them to make factual findings as to fault.
For example, skid marks, debris from the vehicles, damage to the vehicles, etc. Some officers have accident reconstruction training that will allow them to make determinations based on this evidence.
However, most do not. If the officer is simply basing his findings of fault, on statements provided by the individuals involved in the car accident, then those findings may not be reliable.
Specifically, if both sides say the other is at fault, then the officer is simply picking a side and making a credibility determination when it is improper to do so. However, this happens all too often. Police officers are also busy and tend to treat car accidents that do not result in major injuries as insignificant. If someone is not critically injured, the officer may just go through the motions when collecting evidence and putting together the police report.
The officer may be more concerned with investigating crimes that he or she believes is a more serious and important use of his or her time. At the same time, the officer may even be upset that he or she has to do the paperwork associated with responding to a car accident that he or she views as not serious.
The majority of those reports have errors in them. Even if the finding of fault is correct, the report may contain other errors, wrong information or omissions. Some of the typical information that is wrongly reported in police reports or crash reports include the following:.
Pictured below is an example of a typical error in a police report or crash report. The example contains two consecutive pages from an actual police report from a client we represented. You can see on the first page that the officer marked that neither driver did anything improper and that there was no violation. You can see on the second page that the officer issued a citation to the at-fault driver for a violation of A. Clearly, the first page contains an error and discrepancy.
Police reports and crash reports often contain these types of errors. Unfortunately, there is little you can do to contest the findings in a police report or crash report with the police officer or law enforcement officer who wrote it. You can go to the agency and department that wrote the report and ask that a supplemental report be filed.
Do not leave the scene of an accident--even a minor one--until everything has been resolved to everyone's satisfaction. Interacting with the Other Driver. Once the initial shock wears off and it's apparent that no one's been seriously hurt, tempers may flare. Refrain from losing your temper. Get the other driver's name, address, contact information and insurance details, and provide the same for him this is why it's a good idea to carry your insurance information in your vehicle.
See if an amicable settlement can be made. Remain at the scene until the investigators arrive and tell you that you can go. Insurance and Repairs. With the basics taken cared of, it's time to see about the damage to your car and how you can go about getting it fixed. If you can, call your insurance agent immediately while you're still at the scene and ask him about repairs.
Keep in touch with the traffic investigators, and file a report on the accident if they ask. Major Accidents. Check if anyone is hurt. Check yourself and your passengers to see if anyone has been injured. He never responded from his new job to why he changed report. I stated the semi trucker was driving crazy and made a UTurn and hit me.
Trucker also drove maybe yards away from scene of accident. He changed it because he claims that is unlikely because i should have been behind the truck at stop sign. The police diagram is wrong also. I also said he may have been drunk or etc. Driver was not tested cause he was put at fault. No lawyer wants to take this case cause the change in the report. Unfortunately, a police officer does not have to change their report.
The only thing you can really do is continue to seek out attorneys until you find one willing to represent you. You might consider contacting the legal clinic at your local law school. Sometimes these clinics take on cases that attorneys in the field are unwilling to take on. If you were not the driver, I would contact the police department and ask them to change the report.
From Tennessee I got my crash report and almost everything is wrong. I was hit from behind by a new black Yukon in the report it says I was hit by silver 03 Yukon and there was a passenger in his car report says no. Within minutes there were 5 sheriffs vehicles around us the report says nothing about this..
This happened in September Is there anything I can do at this point. You can ask the responding officer to change the police report. However, the report is unlikely to be changed unless you have strong evidence supporting the need to change report. Keep in mind that crash reports are not determinative and generally not admissible in court, so the fact that the report is wrong may not hurt your case. From Michigan Not accident related but I find myself being charges with malicious acts!
I was a legal guardian for the state Michigan and now stand accused of stealing from and taking advantage of my clients. The reports are wrote up to paint me in the worst shade possible and a lot of the basic information is incorrect.
Locations, comments and other details and assumptions are all false!
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