Traffic & Car Accident Lawyer

Accidents happen and they happen fast, but with lasting consequences. Poughkeepsie Pam works with her clients and applies her legal expertise to bring them on the right road again.

Traffic law is more complicated than people assume. It is made up of individual sub-areas which basically always have two things in common: the motor vehicle and its use. The vast majority of the sub-areas and regulations are interlinked, so decisions and the behaviours within the context of one sub-area can have an impact in another area. For example, any statements made in criminal investigations on account of a hit-and-run accident may reappear later in a liability proceeding of the liability insurance company. As a rule, an accident with mutual accusation not only has consequences under compensation law in two directions (enforcing one's own claims, defending others) but also consequences under criminal or regulatory law.

A lawyer needs to be aware of and take into account these interactions and provide the best possible advice from the very beginning.

Examples of cases applicable under traffic law include:

• Sales contract and warranty law for dealers, private sellers and buyers of all types of vehicles (cars, trucks, motorcycles, boats)
  

• Questions concerning vehicle repair and service contract law
  

• Traffic accident: liability issues, compensation & settlement
  

• Reductions of the amounts of compensation by the insurers
  

• Personal injury, such as compensation for pain and suffering and damage to the household
  

• Motor vehicle insurance law (comprehensive and partially comprehensive insurance)
  

• Driving licence demerit point reduction

• Traffic infringements (speed limit, red light and parking offences)
  

• Criminal traffic offenses (negligent bodily injury, hit-and-run)