What Really Caused Your North Carolina Car Accident?
You or a family member recently got into a car accident in North Carolina. Whether it was a devastating crash that resulted in serious injuries or even fatalities, or it was just a bit more than a simple fender-bender, your mind has been furiously “reconstructing” what happened and trying to figure out what went wrong and who should be to blame.
Obsessive fretting after the fact is normal for North Carolina car accident survivors – and for victims of any traumatic circumstances. The brain does not like uncertainty and incomplete pictures. It strives to fill in the details, even if those details are inaccessible, poorly rendered, or based on lapsed or biased judgments.
This can be a big problem because the law likes to deal with absolutes and objective facts – so-called “evidence.”
If you believe that your accident happened because of XYZ, and XYZ turns out to be colored by your imagination, biases, personal speculation, or bad evidence – even partially so –the defense could highlight your logical errors or lapses in judgment. Your case could suffer, and you could wind up being unable to collect much-needed compensation for your medical bills, lost work time, damage to your vehicle, and so on.
For instance, if you recall seeing a blue Honda Civic drive away after a hit and run, and the defendant actually owns an orange Honda Civic, your lapsed or “colored” memory gives an otherwise clearly guilty suspect room for legal maneuvers.
Victims misremember not only small details about their accident but also big details – such as who cut off whom, how much time the accident took, what the weather conditions were, and on and on.
Also, our lapses and misremembrances tend to get more colorful and blurry as time goes on.
For all those reasons and more, you should connect with an experienced North Carolina car accident law firm immediately to get assistance with building your case and making it as bulletproof as possible.
More web resources:
Accident victim’s memory problems
How the brain colors past events
