Best wishes to this man as he recuperates. If alcohol was involved, I’m glad that there weren’t other motorists who were affected by any impaired driving.

Ron Kramer represents clients in Magna, West Valley City, West Jordan, Taylorsville, Riverton, and provides attorney services in areas of Utah accident and personal injury law.

The most experienced West Valley City, Utah, personal injury attorney knows there are many traps just waiting to catch the uninitiated – including those accident victims who decide to go it alone. Those that drive in the West Valley City metro area know that accidents out there are just waiting to happen. Statistically, West Valley City is the second-largest city in Utah with a population of 123,447. West Valley is home to the E Center, the Utah Grizzlies and large concert venues like the USANA Amphitheatre. On any given day, there are auto accidents, motorcycle accidents, scooter accidents, pedestrian accidents, bicycle accidents, drunk driving accidents and text messaging accidents that injure people and send them to the hospital, and sometimes to the morgue.

Getting What is Fair Can Be Difficult and Trying for the Uninitiated

Sadly, when someone is involved in a West Valley City car accident, either as a driver, motorist, or pedestrian, obtaining just compensation can be extremely trying. Sometimes the claim needs to be brought against a Utah governmental agency, such as UTA. Agencies such as this are not accustomed to giving injured victims the time of day, let alone justice. Getting fair compensation from these agencies and the big insurance companies takes real experience and dogged persistence. A knowledgeable West Valley,Utah accident lawyer will tell you that big insurance, companies and governmental agencies just won’t pay over the compensation you may be deserving if they happened to have been negligent. So, unless there is a Utah advocate holding them accountable, they are likely to deny or severely minimize your valid injury claim.

The Secret Way Insurance Companies Make Their Millions

Let’s face it, the insurance industry is a highly-competitive industry. Every day, we hear and see countless commercials in Utah from car insurance companies that want us to switch over to them for our car insurance needs. Despite their insistence that we all become their customers and pay them premiums however, the insurance companies make most of their profit when they deny or minimize otherwise valid claims. What skilled West Valley City, Utah accident attorneys know is that as long as the insurance companies bring in more in premium dollars than they pay out, they are profitable. However, if the insurance companies can avoid paying out on valid claims, or only pays pennies on the dollar, the amount they avoid paying out is pure profit to them. So, for example, if they paid out $10,000 less than they should of on your claim, that is an extra $10,000 of pure profit to that insurance company. That’s where the BIG money is for them. This is the area that they really focus their business attention on.

Fight Fire With Fire:  Get a Good Lawyer!

Insurance companies hire the best lawyers to defend them so they can limit their payouts to the bare minimum. This is why you need to fight fire with fire by consulting with the best West Valley City, Utah accident and injury lawyer you can find. Such a lawyer will not bow to the manipulative games that these insurance companies play. They have trial experience and take cases to trial when necessary. They stand firm in the face of their claims that your case is worth less because you have “degenerative disc disease,” that you were in a car accident 10 years ago, that your accident was too minor to have caused you injury, etc. Since almost all accident and injury lawyers will offer a free consultation, make sure you consult with one who can explain what your rights are and what you can expect on your claim. Remember that it cost NOTHING to meet with an experienced lawyer. If you were seriously injured, you will be miles ahead if you do.

Learn All You Can To Get the Best Possible Outcome on Your Case

Finally, you should take the time to educate yourself as to what you are in for when you have been involved in a West Valley accident and what mistakes you must avoid to get full and fair compensation for your case. Ron Kramer wrote the Utah Accident Book to give Utah consumers this very direction. This book is free to those who have been injured in a Utah accident. You can get one by calling our office or clicking here: http://www.MyAccidentBook.com.

If you have been injured because of someone’s neglect, we would love to meet with you or a family member. You can visit us in our office in Salt Lake County:

Kramer Law Group
12357 South 450 East
Suite 1
Draper, Utah 84020
801-553-8840

I wish the family of young Joseph Barela the very best as they are cope with this tragic loss. It appears the passenger was treated and released; I wish him well as he recovers in the coming weeks.

Liability appears to lie with the driver, Joseph Barela. The initial reports indicate that Barela may was driving under the influence of alcohol. Alcohol inhibits our senses making driving extremely difficult. Drunk driving leads to serious lapses in judgment, lapses that are magnified on the road. The slightest obstacle can present a serious problem to a drunk driver. Alcohol causes slower reaction time, decreased perception ability, and a tendency to be overconfident with your driving. All of these outcomes put the driver, passenger, and everyone else on the road in serious danger.

In this case, the passenger has a claim against the car’s insurance. This claim will help him cover medical bills associated with the crash, recover lost wages and compensate for pain and suffering. I recommend that the passenger of the vehicle contact an experienced Ogden, Utah personal injury attorney who will help him explore all legal avenues available.

If you are uncertain about hiring a Bountiful personal injury and accident attorney, you’ll want to look at the chapter in the Utah Accident Book dealing with what to look at in hiring a personal injury and accident lawyer. Hint: the guy on TV or on the billboard may not be the best attorney for your case.

For those who totaled their cars in the accident, Kramer includes a chapter in the Utah Accident Book on the steps to getting top dollar from the insurance company and discusses why you may be entitled to get a rental car when the other guy totaled yours. In short, this book offers something for everyone! To get your own copy of the Utah Accident Book, call (801) 553-8838, or click http://MyAccidentBook.com

Ron Kramer is a Bountiful personal injury attorney and author with six children. He has offices in Bountiful, Draper and Provo, Utah. His Bountiful office is located at 503 West 2600 South, Suite 200, Bountiful, Utah 84010.

Reported by KSL news, I-15 in Salt Lake City, Utah was a major trouble spot. Drivers reported that they were not able to go a half mile without passing a Utah auto accident. Teresa Henderson was riding in an SUV that spun out on I-15. “It’s a mess. It’s just ice,” she said. “It’s like ice skating.”

Driver Matthew Skaggs’ car was involved in one of the more severe accidents of the morning. He was trying to pass a bus when he realized a car had spun out and was stopped in his lane. He didn’t have anywhere to go.”It was either left into a car next to me or right into a bus. So I decided to do neither and put my brakes on. I slid into the bus and bounced off of it right into the median.

Skaggs says he was driving less than 55 miles per hour when he got in his accident but troopers say that is not slow enough.

Ron Kramer is a Salt Lake City, Utah personal injury attorney who helps his clients receive compensation for medical bills, lost wages and pain and suffering.

Ramirez died at the scene. The passenger in the car, 21-year-old Tihare Salazar of Provo, Utah was transported in serious condition to Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center in Pocatello, Idaho.

I offer my sincere condolences to the family of Carlybeth Ramirez. What a tragic loss for this family. I hope for the very best for young Tihare Salazer as she recovers from her injuries.

The investigation shows that Ms. Ramirez may have drifted slightly and then overcorrected causing the car to spin out of control. Typically, the initial investigation will only show that the vehicle spun out of control but will not show that factors that caused the accident. Could a mechanical malfunction have lead to the car to spin out of control?

As a passenger in the vehicle, Ms. Salazar should hire a skilled Utah personal injury attorney who will help her receive compensation for her medical bills and pain and suffering.

The woman fell through the shuttle’s side rear door as it turned left from North Campus Drive onto Mario Capechhi Drive at around 8:20 at night.”She was standing at the time of the turn, apparently lost her grip and fell against the doors,” said campus police officer Sgt. Arbon Nordgran said. Police are investigating why the doors opened during the turn. The woman apparently hit her head and was alive but unconscious when paramedics arrived. She died later that evening at University of Utah hospital.

The Utah Highway Patrol inspected the bus and determined that driver error was not a factor and the bus appeared to pass a simple safety inspection. University officials are cooperating with The Utah Department of Transportation officials who are conducting a more comprehensive investigation.

I offer my sincere condolences to the family of this victim as they mourn this loss.

As the investigation continues, many questions will need to be answered; specifically, why the door opened in the first place. It seems logical that shuttle passengers will stand close to doors. Safety devices are used so that those doors don’t open when the bus is moving. University officials admit that the shuttle door should not have opened while the bus was still moving so that certainly needs to be answered for. If it was an equipment malfunction, the door or bus manufacturer could be responsible.

Ron Kramer is a Salt Lake City, Utah accident and injury lawyer with offices in Bountiful, Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah and Provo, Utah.

The Kramer Law Group does not currently represent any of the parties referenced in the blog article above. We have cited and linked to the source of our information. If you were involved in the above incident, or one like it, and have questions about your rights and possible remedies, you may call us or another reputable Utah personal injury law firm. The information and opinions expressed above are provided as a public service and should not be used in place of legal advice from a qualified personal injury lawyer. Most skilled and qualified Utah lawyers offer a free consultation. We will likewise provide a free consultation to not-at-fault persons (and their family members) mentioned in this article.

There were no serious injuries reported but details continue to come in on this story. The crash closed the two left-hand lanes for a short time.

In my experience, most rear-end collisions happen because the following motorist is “following too close.” Drivers need to remember the “two second” rule that they learned in driver’s ed so that they are never too close to the car in front of them. We may never know why the car in front of us is stopping or slowing, but we are required under Utah’s traffic rules to be ready to avoid that collision. It is never a good defense that the person in front of us stopped too quickly. If we had been following the rules of the road, we would be prepared for such a contingency.

Ron Kramer is a Utah personal injury lawyer with years of experience representing the injured in the state of Utah.

The driver was taken to Castleview Hospital with minor injuries.

I offer my condolences to the Jones family as they mourn this loss.

The Chevrolet Van was near Scipio when it went off the left shoulder early in the morning. The driver pulled the van pulled the van back to the right but went off the left shoulder again. The driver attempted to straighten out and steer back to the road but the vehicle rolled from the over-correction.

A total of 8 people were in the van. John Vibas of Alberta was ejected from the van and passed away at the scene. Two other passengers were rushed to Central Valley Medical Center with critical injuries, one was taken to the hospital in serious condition and four others were taken to the hospital as a precautionary measure.

The cause of the crash is still under investigation. I wish the surviving family and friends of John Vibas my sincere condolences.

I would also point out that the estate of John Vibas has a claim against the driver of the van or his insurance company for what sounds like negligent driving. I would advise them to speak with a Utah injury and accident lawyer to find out what remedies are available to them.