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Logically, your car color and crash risk might be connected under certain conditions in Augusta, Georgia. For example, a black car might be more difficult to see at night, while a gray car might blend in with its surroundings on a foggy day.
However, even in these conditions, other drivers must still exercise caution; otherwise, the liability for a car accident may fall on their shoulders. A skilled Augusta car accident lawyer from Nicholson Revell Personal Injury Attorneys can help establish liability for your injuries regardless of your vehicle’s color.
Call our Augusta personal injury attorneys at (706) 722-8784 to schedule a free consultation.
We handle other car accident-related practice areas, including: distracted driving accidents, head-on collisions, hit-and-run accidents, red and yellow light accidents, road defects, and more.
Our attorneys have more than a century of combined legal experience representing accident victims in Augusta, GA, against those responsible for causing their injuries. We’ve successfully recovered more than $160 million in injury-related compensation, including settlements or jury awards of over $1 million in 25 cases.
When someone else’s careless or aggressive driving causes a crash that injures you, our Augusta personal injury lawyers can help you by:
Insurers may use any possible argument, including blaming the color of your vehicle, to avoid paying an injury claim. Contact us today to schedule a free consultation with an Augusta car accident attorney and learn more about how we can hold the at-fault driver accountable for your accident-related losses.
Statistical studies have determined that no car color is more dangerous than any other in all circumstances. In other words, there are no particular colors that are more dangerous in cloudy, sunny, foggy, rainy, or dark conditions. This conclusion comes from a research paper published by the University of Dayton, a project that arose due to a conflict in the existing literature.
Previously, a study conducted by researchers at the University of Auckland had looked at several hundred crash records. After controlling for factors like the time of day and the lighting conditions, the researchers concluded that silver was the safest car color.
Just a few years later, a study in Australia examined hundreds of thousands of crash records. After controlling for confounding factors, researchers at Monash University concluded that silver was the most dangerous car color.
The University of Dayton study acknowledged these contradictory results but took a different approach. Prior studies looked at all vehicles involved in crashes, but this one only looked at the colors of the vehicles found not at fault for each crash. By only examining the victim’s cars, the study addressed the question of whether cars were hit specifically because of their colors.
Based on this analysis, the researchers found no statistical connection between vehicle color and the overall risk of being hit.
The liability for car accidents typically depends on negligence. Under this legal principle, drivers are responsible for unintentional injuries that result from carelessness. Specifically, negligence occurs when a driver’s actions exhibit a failure to exercise reasonable care under a given set of circumstances.
For example, suppose a driver fails to reduce their speed while driving on a highway during a downpour. The same rule applies if they fail to slow down and cause an intersection crash in low-visibility conditions. They would be responsible for the resulting highway accident even if the victim’s gray car was difficult to see due to the rain. In other words, reasonably prudent drivers would have slowed down so they could spot other vehicles; the driver was negligent because they did not.
The injury attorney’s job is to identify the at-fault driver’s actions that created the original risk. For example, the driver might have been speeding when they failed to notice the victim’s car. Alternatively, they might have been texting right before a rear-end collision. In these cases, the driver’s carelessness is responsible for the accident rather than the victim’s car color.
Georgia uses a comparative negligence system to determine how much the at-fault driver must pay. If they’re 100% at fault, they must pay 100% of the victim’s losses. However, the at-fault driver can sometimes chip away at the amount they owe by shifting some blame to the victim.
In some cases, insurers may try to blame the victim’s car color for the accident. For example, an insurer might claim that a silver car created a blinding glare at sunset, preventing the policyholder from seeing it clearly.
The liability for a car accident should fall squarely on the negligent driver, regardless of the color of your vehicle. Contact Nicholson Revell Personal Injury Attorneys for a free consultation to find out how we keep the focus on the other driver’s actions as we pursue compensation under Georgia law. Our Augusta car accident lawyers offer free consultations.
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