Here at Schilling & Silvers Personal Injury & Car Accident Lawyers, our legal team sees the cost of distracted driver accidents on a regular basis in a range of different types of accidents:

• Car accidents: Texting while driving can result in collisions with other cars, resulting in minor to serious injuries or even death, as well as damage to the vehicle that has been hit.
• Motorcycle accidents: Texting while riding a motorcycle is highly risky, of course. But know that driving a motor vehicle while driving and hitting a motorcycle can also result in serious injuries for the motorcyclist. Motorcyclists are more vulnerable on the roads since their vehicles are less stable and are less visible too, so these drivers are at risk of suffering serious injuries if they get hit by a driver distracted by texting.
• Truck accidents: Truck drivers may be distracted by their cell phones while on long journeys as they update loved ones or employers of their location. They may also be distracted by the navigation devices that they need to use to find their way to their destination.
• Pedestrian accidents: Pedestrians are vulnerable to injury by distracted drivers. Although texting while driving may only take a driver’s eyes off the road for a few seconds, this is more than enough time to hit an unseen pedestrian, causing serious injuries.
• Drunk or intoxicated accidents: Just stepping into a car while drunk or intoxicated by drugs is a major hazard in itself. An inflated sense of confidence and distorted reality mean that a drunk or intoxicated driver may see nothing wrong with texting as well, which is highly likely to result in a collision, causing damage to property and personal injury.
• Bicycle accidents: Just like drivers of motorized vehicles, cyclists should not be texting while they are riding. The other side of the coin is that if hit by a distracted driver, cyclists are likely to suffer serious injuries since they have little protection around them as they would in a vehicle.
• Rideshare accidents: Rideshare drivers may be distracted by an array of factors, including chatting with their passenger or texting their workplace to let them know their estimated arrival time. Either way, this can result in serious injury and damage to others in the event of a collision. Uber and other ride-hailing drivers such as Lyft, can easily get distracted by texting to accept work or update passengers on their arrival time. Sadly, this can result in Uber and Lyft car accidents affecting their own passengers and drivers, and even passengers in other cars too.

The costs of any of these types of accidents can be devastating and far-reaching, from causing death to other drivers, passengers, or pedestrians to serious life-changing injuries or even minor injuries and shock.

What’s more, if you’ve been injured in a distracted driving accident, you may have to take time off work, pay for medical and therapy costs not covered by your insurance, deal with damage to your car or other property, and process feelings of distress and anxiety as a direct result of the accident.

That’s exactly why you need an experienced Fort Lauderdale distracted driver accident lawyer, such as one of the experts at Schilling & Silvers Personal Injury & Car Accident Lawyers, to help you deal with the fallout of being hit by one of these drivers.