Atlanta Bicycle Accident Lawyer
Atlanta Bicycle Accident Attorney Overview
On a bike, you can do everything right and still be at the mercy of the driver next to you.
Cycling around Atlanta is cheap, quick, and good for you. But it’s not a fair fight when a two-ton car forgets you’re there. When a collision happens, the rider loses, and the injuries can be brutal. If a careless driver hit you while you were riding, you shouldn’t be left holding the medical bills and a mangled bike.
At Bey & Associates, our Atlanta bicycle accident lawyers dig into what happened, pin down who’s at fault, and fight to recover what the crash cost you. You focus on healing. We’ll handle the rest.
Safe Spots to Bike in Atlanta
Our city has bike lanes and other features to make riding a bike through the streets safer and more accessible. Atlanta has been named a bicycle-friendly community by The League of American Bicyclists, meaning we meet the criteria for ridership, safety, education, enforcement, and other factors. The city plans to improve cyclists’ safety in Atlanta even further.
To help make it easier to find the most accessible and safest biking routes in the city, the Atlanta Bicycle Coalition created a map. The map here colors the most accessible biking roads in blue, moderately difficult roads in yellow, and the most challenging biking routes in orange. Here are the qualifications for the streets with the lowest difficulty to bike:
- Alternates to main roads.
- Slow-speed traffic.
- Low traffic volumes.
- Wide lanes, bike-able shoulders, and visible bike lanes.
- Few merge lanes, right turn lanes, commercial driveways, or on-street parking.
The streets with higher difficulty ratings are also based on the qualifications but have higher traffic speeds, higher traffic volumes, narrower shoulders, and more lanes that could pose hazards for bikers. That’s why it’s essential to plan your route before biking to your destination.
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Medical Malpractice
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Car Accidents
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Truck Accidents
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Wrongful Death
The unexpected loss of a loved one is one of the most traumatic experiences a family can go through. When the death should have been prevented, the loss devastating.
Work Injuries
If you’ve been seriously injured while on the job, you’re likely already aware that your employer doesn’t make providing for your family a simple task.
Nursing Home Abuse
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Atlanta Bike Accident Facts
Safer lanes haven’t made every ride safe. The danger clusters in a few places. The city has more than 1,500 miles of roads, but most fatal bike crashes happen on roughly six percent of them.
The worst stretches, including the Westside, Downtown, Midtown, Decatur Street, and DeKalb Avenue, sit on what the plan calls the High Injury Network: the roads where the most serious crashes pile up, often where cyclists and pedestrians are most exposed, and public transit is thin.
What Causes Bicycle Accidents?
Drivers don’t always get the blame. Sometimes fault lands on the cyclist, fairly or not, and an insurer will run with that if no one pushes back.
That’s exactly why you want your own investigation. A bicycle accident lawyer ensures the crash is examined honestly and that your side is heard.
According to Go-Georgia’s crash dashboard, nearly 8400 bicycle crashes occurred in our state from 2014 to 2024. Those crashes resulted in 3,071 visible injuries, 865 serious injuries, and 187 fatalities.
It’s important to understand how bicycle accidents happen. Here are some of the most common causes:
- Driver Inattention: Distracted drivers can cause accidents between themselves and other vehicles and cause accidents with bicyclists. When drivers don’t pay attention and watch for bike riders, they could cut them off, collide with them, or open their door and cause a dooring accident. Intersections are perilous for bicyclists when drivers don’t pay attention because left and right turns can quickly become deadly collisions.
- Speeding: When drivers are speeding, it decreases the time they have to react, which can lead to accidents. When bicyclists are involved, this can be especially fatal for them because being hit on a bike by a vehicle at a high speed causes serious injuries.
- Tight Spaces: Tight roads without bike lanes limit the space between bikes and vehicles. While cars on tight roads should treat bicyclists as another vehicle, sometimes they try to pass the bike and end up clipping the bicycle or the person riding it.
- Road Conditions: Whether the road has potholes, is deteriorating, or the weather isn’t favorable, if road conditions make it harder to drive a car, they also make it harder to ride a bike. This can cause collisions between the two.
- Traffic Signals: Sometimes traffic lights and other signs aren’t conducive to bicyclists, or they malfunction and cause a traffic miscommunication. This can lead to collisions between cars and bikes because while both are trying to follow the traffic signals, their paths still cross, and they collide.
When you’ve been in a bicycle accident and suffered injuries that weren’t your fault, one of our bicycle accident lawyers can help you recover what you deserve.
Common Bike Accident Injuries
While biking is a fun and active way to travel in the city year-round, it’s essential to consider the potential injuries that can happen when a car collides with you on your bike.
Since your body is more exposed on a bicycle, you could suffer from more serious harm in a collision compared to the driver or passengers in a regular-sized vehicle. Let’s take a look at the injuries that bicycle accident lawyers often see in their cases:
- Bruises and lacerations
- Broken bones
- Road rash
- Burns
- Head injuries
- Back and neck injuries
- Spinal cord injuries
- Death
With the help of an Atlanta bicycle accident lawyer, you could receive compensation for the injuries and damages you suffered from your collision. Costs like medical bills, medication, and lost wages can all be recovered when you trust one of our bicycle accident lawyers to help you through your claim.
Additionally, if you’ve been injured in an e-bike or e-scooter accident in Atlanta that was caused by negligence, we are prepared to help protect your rights.
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