any advice appreciated on this accident. My girlfriend was driving my car turning right out of a alley and was hit by a truck

Gather all pertinent documents and any evidence at your disposal. Much of the record keeping should be done from the moment of the accident, before you even meet with your personal injury lawyer. Write down everything you remember about what happened, before, during and right after the accident. Videotapes, photographs and witness names and testimony will help a great deal. Then contact a personal injury lawyer. Your personal injury lawyer will take your case through civil court proceedings and will try and contact the other party to reach a settlement. Filing an official lawsuit may not be necessary.

You need a lawyer. Get a personal injury lawyer right away and notify your insurer.

Check with a lawyer in your locale to discuss more of the details.

Good luck to you.

God bless.

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Sounds like a good case to me. Do not be discouraged by what the other insurance company is saying or doing. Claims adjusters actually get bonuses for reducing the value of claims.

As attorney Brinkmeier indicated, document everything.

I do not practice in your jurisdiction so this is not a solicitation. But, please go to an attorney at your earliest convenience. The insurance industry's own statistics show that once an attorney gets involved, the value of any claim doubles. Most personal injury attorneys offer a free initial consultation and so there is no risk other than the time involved, which is minimal in relation to the fact that your son and girlfriend were injured.

The attorney's first step should be to get the witness to give a statement and to make sure you have good pictures ot the skid marks before time and the weather make them fade.

Whether or not the citation sticks is not neecessarily relevant in that the police officer more likely than not did not actually observe the collision itself. However, the fact that the other guy got the citation should help you.

Don't take any line from the claims adjuster. Retain an experienced personal injury attorney.

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Your son and girlfriend will need a lawyer to evaluate their claim, and pursue it with the insurance company. Their adjuster is looking out for his interests, not yours!

Whatever happens with his citation, it appears that he is at fault, and his insurance should be responsible for the damages to your truck, as well as the injuries.

A quick note: The out of state practitioners neglect to mention that it is very likely the defendant driver will NOT be responsible for the injuries IF your girlfriend owned a car that was insured with a policy where she accepted the "limited tort" option - ALWAYS a very bad idea in Pennsylvania - or if your car was uninsured, or if she owned no car but your car had a limited tort policy. Nothing in your statement reflects your OWN insurance company's involvement. Normally, if you have insurance, you could have YOUR insurance pay for the damages to your car, subject to your deductible, then your insurance company would go to bat trying to get the other insurance to pay it all back -- including your deductible. If uninsured or subject to limited tort (your son and any family member who lives with you is bound by your tort option), your injury claim may be worthless and you may have great difficulty getting a Pennsylvania injury lawyer to take it. NEVER say yes to full tort. It will "save" you a few hundred dollars for giving up insurance rights for yourself and resident family members worth tens of thousands of dollars.

Correction to mine from above: never say yes to LIMITED tort (FULL TORT is what you want from your auto insurance company -- insist on it or understand you are giving up extremely valuable rights).