Practice Area
Pedestrian Accidents
Georgia consistently ranks among the deadliest states for people on foot. When a driver strikes a pedestrian, the injuries are severe and the blame is almost always aimed at the person who was walking.
Case overview
A pedestrian has no crumple zone, no airbag and no seatbelt. The same impact that leaves a bumper cracked leaves a person with a fractured pelvis, a traumatic brain injury or a spinal cord injury requiring years of care. Metro Atlanta's wide arterial roads — Buford Highway, Memorial Drive, Cobb Parkway, Roswell Road — were engineered for traffic speed, not for the thousands of people who cross them daily to reach a bus stop, a shift or a storefront.
Almost every pedestrian claim begins with the same accusation: that you darted out, that you were not in a crosswalk, that the driver 'never saw' you. Georgia law is more nuanced than the driver's version. O.C.G.A. § 40-6-91 requires drivers to stop and stay stopped for a pedestrian in a crosswalk on their half of the roadway, and § 40-6-93 imposes a duty on every driver to exercise due care to avoid hitting a pedestrian regardless of where the person is walking — including sounding the horn and taking proper precaution around a child or an obviously confused or impaired person.
Crossing outside a crosswalk is not an automatic bar to recovery. Under Georgia's modified comparative negligence rule (O.C.G.A. § 51-12-33), you may recover as long as you are less than 50% at fault, with your award reduced by your percentage. That single number is what the insurer fights over — and it is won or lost on evidence gathered in the first weeks: signal timing data, crosswalk and lighting conditions, nearby business and doorbell camera footage, event data from the striking vehicle, and the physical evidence of impact and throw distance.
Coverage is the other hard problem. Many drivers who strike pedestrians carry Georgia's minimum $25,000 in bodily injury liability, which rarely covers one ambulance ride and one surgery. Hit-and-run and low-limit cases turn on the pedestrian's own uninsured/underinsured motorist coverage, which in Georgia follows the person — it can apply even though you were walking, not driving — along with resident-relative policies, MedPay and any commercial or delivery policy behind the vehicle.
How We Help
Fast scene and footage preservation
Signal-timing records, roadway lighting, sight-line photographs at the same hour of day, and preservation demands to nearby businesses whose cameras overwrite in days.
Rebutting the 'darted out' defense
Reconstruction using impact and throw distance, vehicle event data and witness sequencing to establish where you were and what the driver could have seen.
Every layer of coverage identified
The driver's liability policy, your own and resident-relative UM/UIM coverage, MedPay, and commercial, rideshare or delivery policies behind the vehicle.
Hit-and-run investigation
Working with investigators and law enforcement on partial plates, debris and paint transfer, and area camera canvassing — while your UM claim proceeds in parallel.
Catastrophic and long-term damages
Life-care planning and vocational analysis for brain, spinal, pelvic and lower-limb injuries, so the settlement accounts for the next decade rather than the last hospital bill.
The Legal Process
What working with us actually looks like.
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Free case evaluation
We listen first. In a confidential conversation we review what happened, answer your questions, and tell you honestly whether you have a claim.
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Investigation
We secure evidence quickly — reports, footage, black-box data, medical records and expert opinion — before it disappears.
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Treatment & documentation
We coordinate with your providers so your recovery is properly documented and your bills are managed while your claim is pending.
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Demand & negotiation
We present a fully supported demand to the insurer and negotiate from a position of strength, never from urgency.
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Litigation, if necessary
If the offer does not reflect the harm done, we file suit and prepare the case for trial.
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Resolution
You approve every decision. We handle liens and paperwork so you receive your recovery cleanly.
Why SinghToro
Prepared as though every case will be tried.
Insurance carriers track which firms try cases and which firms do not. That reputation is worth more at the negotiating table than any argument we could make in a letter.
You will work directly with an attorney, receive candid answers about value and timing, and pay nothing unless we recover for you.
Frequently Asked
Questions about pedestrian accidents.
Free Case Evaluation
Tell us what happened. We will tell you where you stand.
Every consultation is confidential and free of charge. There is no fee unless we recover for you.