Car Bicycle Accidents
Tampa Bay Bicycle Accident Lawyers
The Tampa Bay area is home to many who love to bike recreationally and a fast growing population of competitive cyclists and triathletes. Many others rely on cycling as their only means of transportation throughout the dangerous highways and roads of Pinellas, Pasco, and Hillsborough counties. While the West Coast has the Pinellas Trail, Suncoast Trail, and the Upper Tampa Bay Trail, these relatively safe travel routes cannot meet the demands of our Tampa Bay area cycling community, forcing many instead to take to the public roads to bike. While cyclists hope that motor vehicle and truck drivers subscribe to the “Share the Road” philosophy of our community planners, oftentimes the cyclist doesn’t get his or her “fair share.”
Bicycles are legally defined as vehicles, and as such, they receive the same rights to use the road as a car or other automobile would, and correspondingly, they also have to follow the same traffic rules as other motor vehicles. Many drivers on the road fail to recognize the rights of cyclists, however, and with a difference of nearly 3,000 pounds in weight, even minor collisions involving bicycles and vehicles usually result in severe injuries for the cyclist.
In most cases, bike accidents are the result of motorists failing to be aware of the cyclists and their rightful presence on the road, and therefore are negligent in following the laws governing the legal usage of bicycles on our roadways.
Recent studies have found that insurance companies settle injury claims for bicycle accidents 30% – 40% lower than those settlements for identical injuries suffered in car accidents. For too long, victims of bicycle accidents have been given a raw deal, and our skilled bicycle accident lawyers will fight for you to ensure your injuries are justly compensated.
We represent bicyclists and their families when others fail to respect the rightful place of bicyclists in our Tampa Bay Community. If you are in need of a Tampa Bay bike accident attorney, contact PERENICH The Law Firm today to speak to one of our experienced bike accident lawyers.
Our personal injury and bicycle accident lawyers have devoted their professional career to representing innocent victims of accidents of both cars and bicycles in Clearwater, Tampa, St. Pete and throughout the entire Tampa Bay area. We personally understand the specific issues that many cyclists face on the roads throughout Tampa Bay. Injuries resulting from bicycle accidents are usually very severe, and range from abrasions, cuts, and scars to brain injury, broken bones, dental trauma, and possible permanent damages to the brain and spinal cord. In cases where the accident victim is hospitalized and unable to work, our skilled team of bicycle accident lawyers have the knowledge, experience, and resources necessary to fully investigate the cause of the crash, determine fault and pursue a fair and just recovery for the damages to the victim.