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Pedestrian and cyclist injuries
Serious injuries, complicated fault arguments, and insurance coverage that surprises people.
Pedestrians and cyclists struck by vehicles suffer disproportionately severe injuries, and in most provinces the law places an onus on the driver to explain how the collision was not their fault. But intersection dynamics, visibility, clothing, helmet use and signal timing are all litigated hard, and municipal design or maintenance can be a live issue alongside the driver.
The forks in the road
What actually changes who should hold this file
Each of these moves the file to a different set of practitioners. All of them are in our intake.
The reverse onus
In several provinces the driver must disprove negligence. That materially changes leverage, and a firm that knows how to press it early settles differently.
Whether you own a vehicle or live with someone who does
Accident benefits frequently flow from a household auto policy even though you were on foot or on a bicycle. Many injured pedestrians never claim them.
Road design and maintenance
Where infrastructure contributed, a claim against a municipality may exist alongside the driver claim — with a much shorter notice deadline.
Helmet use
It will be raised. Its actual legal effect is narrower than most people fear, and a good firm frames it correctly rather than treating it as a weakness.
The first weeks
What competent counsel does early
Not what they say in a consultation — what actually happens in the file while you are still recovering.
- Securing intersection, transit and business surveillance footage immediately.
- Signal-timing and road-condition records from the municipality where design is in issue.
- Identifying every available policy, including household coverage the injured person forgot they had.
Fault is rarely all-or-nothing in these cases. Partial responsibility reduces recovery but does not eliminate it, and a firm that walks away because you were partly at fault is not the only option available to you.
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Pedestrian and cyclist injuries by province
The limitation clock and the notice traps are provincial. Pick where it happened.
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