Sometimes, but not easily. Georgia generally expects a following driver to anticipate that the vehicle ahead may stop, so a sudden stop alone rarely shifts blame. The lead driver becomes...
Negligent supervision describes a carrier's failure to monitor and manage a driver it has already hired, in a way that allows preventable danger to develop on the road. Where negligent...
Riding in a vehicle that crashes leaves a person hurt through no choice of their own, and Georgia law gives that person broad room to recover. Because a passenger almost...
A rear underride crash occurs when a passenger vehicle strikes the back of a tractor-trailer and slides underneath it, often because a car's hood sits lower than a trailer's rear....
Footage from a traffic signal, intersection camera, or a nearby business's security system can help prove how a Georgia crash occurred, but obtaining it is its own challenge. Unlike a...
Owning the car that caused a crash does not, by itself, make the owner responsible in Georgia. Liability attaches to the owner only when a specific legal theory connects them...
When a left-turning vehicle collides with a driver traveling straight through an intersection, Georgia law usually points liability at the turning driver, because that driver carries the duty to yield...
When two vehicles back out of opposing spaces and collide, Georgia law often treats both drivers as sharing responsibility, because each had the same duty to reverse only when it...
Accident reconstruction turns physical evidence into a clear, defensible account of how a crash happened. When the parties disagree about who caused a Georgia wreck and the available witnesses or...
An insurer treats a vehicle as a total loss when fixing it no longer makes economic sense, judged against the car's value rather than the owner's attachment to it. The...