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Hurt in an Accident on Icy Roads? Get Some Financial Relief

Ohio winters make driving extra dangerous. When temperatures drop below freezing and snow and sleet start falling, everyone needs to take an extra level of care and caution behind the wheel.

Sadly, not everyone does. Ice, snow and slush were factors in more than 10,000 crashes in 2023, according to the Ohio State Highway Patrol. And most of these happen around Ohio’s big cities—Cincinnati, Columbus and Cleveland.

When a driver slides on ice and hits your vehicle, you can be seriously injured, and your car can suffer major damage. It’s important to know that in Ohio, icy roads aren’t an excuse for an accident.

Drivers must be aware of road conditions—and take steps to minimize the chances of losing control—to best avoid being involved in a wreck.

When they don’t take precautions or drive recklessly, and you’re hurt by their negligence, you’re entitled to financial compensation to set things right.

Proving negligence, however, can be tricky. Having a knowledgeable car accident lawyer is your best path to a successful claim, whether you’re filing with your insurance company, the at-fault driver’s insurance company, or you pursue a personal injury claim in court.

At Horenstein, Nicholson & Blumenthal (HNB), Our car accident, truck accident, slip and fall, wrongful death, and icy road accident lawyers have been helping injured Ohioans for more than 40 winters in the Buckeye State.

In all, we’ve secured more than $500,000,000.00 in awards, benefits and settlements for injured Ohioans.

When you’ve been in a wreck with an inept driver on an icy road, call us. We want you to end up saying, “Helping me, that’s HNB.”

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    Common Causes for Winter Driving Accidents

    When a driver slides on ice and causes an accident, Ohio law doesn’t blame the ice.

    Every driver is responsible for taking every precaution necessary to travel safely in winter conditions.

    The Ohio State Highway Patrol gives a lot of icy road safety advice: Make sure your tires, battery, wipers and defrosters work. Drive slowly. Brake gently. Accelerate gradually. Turn carefully.

    Poor preparation on the part of the other driver may include:

    • Failure to clean ice and snow off a vehicle: If a chunk of ice flies off the car in front of you and causes you to crash, that driver could be liable.
    • Driving on worn tires: Old tires with worn tread diminish a car’s ability to grip the road. Throw in ice or snow, and the chances of an accident go up.
    • Not replacing windshield wipers: Worn wiper blades cause low visibility when driving in sleet or snow.

    Poor decisions may include:

    • Failure to turn on headlights: It gets dark fast in Ohio during the winter. If a driver doesn’t have their lights on, you may never see them—and they may not see you.
    • Driving too fast: Speeding increases the chances of sliding on icy roads and decreases the time a driver has to react. Unsafe speed was the cause of 22% of accidents on icy roads in a recent winter, the Highway Patrol reported.
    • Driving too close: Cars need more distance to stop when driving in snow and ice. Everyone is obligated to keep farther away from other drivers as a precaution against accidents. Driving too close caused 14% of winter driving accidents in Ohio recently.

    Any of these factors can be grounds for proving a driver was negligent while operating a motor vehicle.

    Accidents on icy roads might not easily reveal who is at fault. Every case is unique, and it will take a careful look to win the compensation you’re entitled to when you’re injured in a crash.

    The team at HNB knows how to dissect an accident and win compensation for injured drivers, through insurance claims, personal injury lawsuits and injury settlements.

    If you’ve been hurt in a wreck on a road in Ohio, give us a call. We will evaluate your case at no charge to you. And you don’t pay us anything until we win compensation for you.

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    Proving Negligence in Slippery Road Crashes

    To win a personal injury case or insurance claim after a slippery road crash requires you to prove the other driver’s bad decisions or failure to prepare for bad road conditions caused the wreck.

    The first step is to get your bearings as much as you can after the accident. Did the other driver slide into the intersection at a stop sign or red light? Did they cross the median into your lane? Did they slip into you while shifting lanes?

    The answers can be evidence of negligence or reckless driving. Take mental notes of what happened.

    Call 911. An emergency response team can help stabilize your injuries. The police can immediately investigate the sequence of events that led to the crash. All this evidence is crucial to proving negligence and reckless driving.

    If you can, take photos of the scene. Look for witnesses and get their contact information. Any corroborating evidence can be an asset when you’re making a legal case.

    Most of all, stay safe. Chances are other cars will be coming through the area with dangerous road conditions. Get out of the way of further danger.

    Ohio is a comparative negligence state, meaning that everyone involved could share in some portion of the blame.

    Your goal is to show that the other driver was more than 50% at fault, and a key to this is a well-detailed police report. The officer at the scene may often assign a level of negligence to each of the drivers involved.

    You don’t have to parse all these variables yourself. At HNB, our car accident attorneys have decades of experience digging into the fine details of icy road injury claims.

    We can help you win the financial relief you need to pay for medical bills and the pain and suffering caused by another driver’s reckless decisions.

    Let our icy road accident lawyers help you put this trauma behind you and open a new chapter.

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