Can Our Family Still Recover If a Hit-and-Run Driver Is Never Caught After Killing My Brother?
Every single circumstance is different, and the question that an experienced licensed and well-versed attorney would have is whether your brother was walking on a frontage road with a sidewalk where pedestrians are designated to be in our community. That is vastly different from an individual who is walking on the highway.
Walking on a Highway vs. a Frontage Road
A jury would question, “Why ever would a pedestrian would be walking on the highway if it weren’t an intention to harm themselves?” Often times, juries will conclude and decide that there is no negligence of the other motor vehicle individual because a pedestrian cannot be anticipated to be walking on the highway.
When the Frontage Road Changes Everything
But if your brother walks home on the frontage road on a designated walkway and a vehicle veers off of the walkway and strikes, that is negligence for which there would need to be a very thorough investigation by the responding police department — in this case San Antonio Police Department and the fatality division would be investigating.
Broken-Down Vehicles on the Roadway
If your brother was on the side of the highway near a vehicle, for example, broken down, those instances also merit recovery. When a vehicle is broken down, people on the roadway need to be extra cautious of the individual because there is a high propensity to cause injury if not death.
It is important to hire a lawyer that has seen these types of cases before, like us at Fernandez Moore Injury Law. Eunice Moore has seen all of these circumstances above and represented families through recovery for the loss of their loved one.