(Tulsa,
OK) – September 7th, 2016 – When it comes to incidents such as car
accidents, it is very likely that a police report would have been filed
pertaining to what transpired. Even though police reports play a vital role in accident insurance claims, they are pretty much
disregarded if and when your case goes to court.
However, it is still worth noting that
the police report can still be used as evidence in a civil personal injury
lawsuit. This is why Tulsa, OK accident lawyers acquire the police report and
analyze the comments and statements made within it while preparing to represent
a client in a civil personal injury lawsuit stemming from a car accident.
Using
a police report in your personal injury lawsuit
To reiterate, a police report cannot be
used in court for things such as proving that someone did something to cause
you injury/damages. However, a police report can come in handy early on during
your claim before the case actually goes to trial.
How
to request for the police report
To be able to use a police report to
your advantage in your car accident case, you will need to apply for a copy.
The procedure may vary from one police department to another (especially among
different states). Your Oklahoma accident attorney, who can be reached using
this online gem of a website Accident.USAttorneys.com,
will be able to retrieve the report for you. Generally, you just need to
contact the law enforcement agency that responded and filed the report after
the auto accident.
At this point, you should be using your smart phone to build your own case. |
How
to use police reports in out of court settlements
For the most part, most auto accident
cases never make it to trial. A majority of civil personal injury lawsuits
stemming from car accidents are settled outside of court. However, a settlement
is inevitably accompanied by negotiations with car accident insurance
adjustors.
Your legal counselor will be able to
negotiate effectively, but a police report will help him or her in making a
stronger case, in evaluating the worth of the claim, and in drafting a more
structured and fact-based demand letter. A legal representative will know
exactly how to use the police report as leverage to obtain a fair settlement
during negotiations.
In the movie Hancock (Will Smith who
played John Hancock) there was a bank robbery. The lead antagonist or villain who
was called Red (Eddie Marsan) wanted Hancock to break into the vault and grab
all the money since Hancock killed all of Red’s men. Good riddance! Now Red
thought he could force Hancock to do this by using a bomb as leverage.
Red had his finger on a bomb’s push
button trigger and the bomb strapped around him. If the bomb detonated, many
people in the bank would be killed. Hancock was not having that. Hancock took
Red’s arm before he could press the button by throwing a lamp shade disc or
some sort of disc right through Red’s arm.
Red then had no more leverage. Now this
will not happen in your case for many reasons and your legal pro should not
allow the other side to be able to move that freely since the police report is
restraining them. You have more evidence siding with you than they do with
them.
Police
reports can contain important factual information
Tulsa, OK accident lawyers explain that
a police report is usually just a collection of statements based on facts. Subjective
descriptions and anything that could be considered hearsay is avoided as much
as possible in police reports. The report will contain information such as
names of parties involved, personal details of parties involved, registration
plate details of all vehicles involved, any testimonies made by witnesses or
someone involved in the auto accident, and so on.
All of this information is invaluable as
evidence especially when actually drafting and building your civil lawsuit from
scratch. This is why car accident legal professionals make sure to acquire the
police report as soon as possible in a car accident case.
If you have been involved
in an auto accident and need to recover damages, make sure to reach
out to an Oklahoma accident lawyer as soon as possible. Contact USAttorneys.com
if you have any questions. We will probably call you back that same day.
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