WE’VE DRIVEN THE ROAD
YOUR CRASH HAPPENED ON
A car accident claim turns on facts about one specific place. Sight lines. Signal timing. How traffic actually behaves there at that hour. A firm working this market from another state gets those facts from a report. We get them from the commute.
Virginia also makes this harder than most states. Under our contributory negligence rule, an injured person found even slightly at fault can recover nothing at all. Not a reduced amount — nothing. It is the single most important reason not to give a recorded statement to an adjuster before you have talked to a lawyer, and it is the argument insurers reach for first.
Where a claim doesn’t settle, it’s filed in the Norfolk General District Court or the Circuit Court, and we’ve appeared before nearly every judge who has sat in either. We know what those courts expect to see, and we build the file to it from the first week.
WHY THE FIRST WEEK MATTERS
THE ROADS THESE CASES
KEEP COMING FROM
Virginia DMV crash data puts Norfolk at nearly 4,800 crashes in 2024. Around 2,000 people were injured and twenty died. The single busiest location was the I-64 and I-264 interchange — close to five hundred crashes in one year — with the stretch of I-64 between Chesapeake Boulevard and Route 460 just behind it at 470. Speeding accounted for more than a thousand crashes on its own, and drunk drivers caused 188 of them, injuring 121 people and killing six.
Away from the interstates, Military Highway and Tidewater Drive carry heavy volume through commercial stretches full of turn movements. Downtown, Granby Street and Waterside Drive put pedestrians, cyclists and opening car doors into traffic moving faster than those streets were built for. The City of Norfolk’s own figures show people who walk, bike or take the bus are eight percent of commuters and more than a quarter of those hurt in the city’s most serious crashes.
Naval Station Norfolk adds a shift pattern most cities don’t have, which means a Norfolk crash file often involves a service member, a base insurer, and treatment at Sentara Norfolk General — the region’s Level I trauma center. None of that is unusual here. It’s most of the caseload.
IN NORFOLK
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285
injury clients represented in Norfolk in the last two years
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16,000+
injury clients represented since 1995
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65+
years practicing in Norfolk’s courts
TELL US WHERE IT HAPPENED
Name the intersection. Odds are we already know it. Free consultation, no obligation — call 757-622-3317 any time.