Little Rock Cell Phone Car Accidents

At any given time in a day, approximately 660,000 motorists are using their cell phones while driving. The National Safety Council reports that cell phone use while driving leads to 1.6 million crashes annually. These figures are alarming to say the least, so it is important to discern that the following are some examples of cell phone use:

• Texting
• Talking on the phone
• Checking social media accounts (e.g. Facebook, Twitter, Instagram)
• Surfing the web
• Sending and reading emails
• Using Snapchat
• Scrolling through your music library

Basically, any use of your cell phone that redirects some or all of your attention from the road to your cell phone is dangerous and can be considered negligent.

In Pulaski County, you could be driving on Interstate 630 and be hit by another driver talking on their cell phone. Suffering injuries from such an accident may result in you being transported to a nearby medical facility, such as the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) – located at 4301 West Markham Street, Little Rock, Arkansas 72205. If you are planning on bringing a lawsuit against the other driver, it can be beneficial to your case to obtain copies of the documentation of your injuries from the hospital at which you were treated.

Establishing negligence is what you will have to do in order to recover damages from the other driver. To do this, you must prove that the other driver, the defendant, owed you a duty of reasonable care, breached that duty, and caused you to sustain injuries. If you retained an experienced car wreck attorney in the Little Rock area, he or she could help you substantiate your claim in many ways, e.g. obtaining the defendant’s phone record to prove that they were talking on their cell phone at the time of the collision.