Pedestrian Accident Attorney Altamonte Springs and Apopka, FL

Drivers in Florida have a duty to operate their vehicles with due care to avoid striking pedestrians. However, Florida is no stranger to distracted or dangerous drivers. Distracted drivers are a serious threat to pedestrians.

Pedestrian accidents often result in serious injury, such as broken bones or brain damage, as well death. In Florida for 2016, there were over 9,000 injuries to pedestrian-involved crashes – with 667 resulting in death. That is more than one person injured or killed every hour as a pedestrian.

Pedestrian injuries and deaths occur for a variety of reasons. Some of the more common ones include:

Distracted drivers
Speeders
Aggressive drivers
DUI
Improper lane changes
Texting
Driving too fast for road conditions
Failing to keep proper lookout
Failing to yield

Pedestrians who have been injured frequently find their world has changed in a moment. Along with serious and permanent injury are increasing medical bills and painful recovery.

For a pedestrian who has been injured, their world can change in an instant. With serious injury and increasing medical bills, it can often be difficult to keep up with everything. Who is responsible for the payment of medical bills? What happens if I cannot work? What are my rights? These are just some of the common concerns of injury victims. We are here to help.

At Presser Law, P.A., we aggressively represent pedestrians injured as a result of dangerous drivers. We fight to bring our clients justice so they can focus on what matters most – getting better.

If you have been injured as a pedestrian, contact Presser Law, P.A. for a FREE CASE EVALUATION. We will immediately start to investigate your case and answer any questions you may have.

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At Presser Law, P.A., we fight for you because justice is what injury victims deserve. We will provide you with legal guidance and insight about your case and explore issues of fault, causation and damages so that we can fight to bring you the justice you deserve.

Located in Altamonte Springs, Seminole County, we handle cases throughout Orlando and Central Florida. No fees or costs unless we make a recovery for you.

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Pedestrian Accidents Result In Serious Injury or Death

In a 2015 study, the U.S. Department of Transportation estimated there were almost 70,000 pedestrians injured in motor vehicle crashes in the US and almost 5400 killed from pedestrian accidents. The study revealed an increase in pedestrian fatalities as an overall percentage of pedestrian-involved crashes. This means that, as a percentage, more pedestrians are being killed by motor vehicle crashes today than they have been historically.

Florida is known as one of the more dangerous states for pedestrians. A recent analysis revealed the Central Florida metro area from Kissimmee-Orlando-Sanford was near the top of the most dangerous places to walk. In 2016 alone, Florida saw over 9,000 pedestrian involved crashes which resulted in over 650 fatalities. Even in non-fatal pedestrian accidents or crashes, serious physical injury are often the result, including:

Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)
Spinal Cord Injury
Loss Of Body Part
Broken Bones
Torn Ligaments
Severe Scarring
Injuries Requiring Surgical Repair

With so much interaction between pedestrians and motor vehicles, many people often forget both have duties to each other in order to avoid these dangerous collisions. Those duties are outlined in Florida Statute 316.130. Some of those duties are outlined below:

Driver Duties

Florida Statute 316.130(7)(a): The driver of a vehicle at an intersection that has a traffic control signal in place shall stop before entering the crosswalk and remain stopped to allow a pedestrian, with a permitted signal, to cross a roadway when the pedestrian is in the crosswalk or steps into the crosswalk and is upon the half of the roadway upon which the vehicle is traveling or when the pedestrian is approaching so closely from the opposite half of the roadway as to be in danger.

Florida Statute 316.130(7)(b): The driver of a vehicle at any crosswalk where signage so indicates shall stop and remain stopped to allow a pedestrian to cross a roadway when the pedestrian is in the crosswalk or steps into the crosswalk and is upon the half of the roadway upon which the vehicle is traveling or when the pedestrian is approaching so closely from the opposite half of the roadway as to be in danger.

Florida Statute 316.130(7)(c): When traffic control signals are not in place or in operation and there is no signage indicating otherwise, the driver of a vehicle shall yield the right-of-way, slowing down or stopping if need be to so yield, to a pedestrian crossing the roadway within a crosswalk when the pedestrian is upon the half of the roadway upon which the vehicle is traveling or when the pedestrian is approaching so closely from the opposite half of the roadway as to be in danger. Any pedestrian crossing a roadway at a point where a pedestrian tunnel or overhead pedestrian crossing has been provided shall yield the right-of-way to all vehicles upon the roadway.

Florida Statute 316.310(15): Notwithstanding other provisions of this chapter, every driver of a vehicle shall exercise due care to avoid colliding with any pedestrian or any person propelling a human-powered vehicle and give warning when necessary and exercise proper precaution upon observing any child or any obviously confused or incapacitated person.

Pedestrian Duties

Florida Statute 316.130(3): Where sidewalks are provided, no pedestrian shall, unless required by other circumstances, walk along and upon the portion of the roadway paved for vehicular traffic.

Florida Statute 316.130(4): Where sidewalks are not provided, any pedestrian walking along and upon a highway shall, when practicable, walk only on the shoulder of the left side of the roadway in relation to the pedestrian’s direction of travel, facing traffic which may approach from the opposite direction.

Florida Statute 316.130(5): No person shall stand in the portion of a roadway paved for vehicle traffic for the purpose of soliciting a ride, employment or business from the occupant of any vehicle.

Florida Statute 316.130(10): No pedestrian crossing a roadway at any point other than within a marked crosswalk or within an unmarked crosswalk at an intersection shall yield the right-of-way to all vehicles upon the roadway.

Florida Statute 316.130(11): Between adjacent intersections at which traffic control signals are in operation, pedestrians shall not cross at any place except in a marked crosswalk.

Florida Statute 316.130(12): No pedestrian shall, except in a marked crosswalk, cross a roadway at any other place than by a route at right angles to the curb or by the shortest route to the opposite curb.