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Montecito Bicycle Accident Lawyer’s Top Ten Things You Don’t Want to Do After a Bicycle Accident

1. Ride off as if nothing happened.

 

2. Agree to a small payment for your bike before you even know if you will be in pain the next day.

 

3. Fail to at least exchange information and get the driver’s insurance policy number, the driver’s name, address and telephone number, information on the driver’s car and the driver’s insurance company name.

 

4. Fail to get a police determination of fault.

 

5. Fail to take photos of the scene, the vehicles and any scars, if possible, even with a cell phone camera and get witness information.

 

6. Fail to file an accident report form with the DMV.

 

7. Agree to be paid in apples and livestock.

 

8. Fail to hire an experienced bicycle accident lawyer.

 

9. Go up to Santa Barbara for the day and get drunk.

 

10. Fail to sit at the ocean and think how lucky you are to be alive.

 

Now here are ten useful tips of advice from a bicycle accident lawyer to follow if you have been in an accident. You can also learn more about how to handle a bicycle accident in Montecito, or any city, by calling the Law Offices of R. Sebastian Gibson at any of the numbers which can be found on our website at http://www.SebastianGibsonLaw.com  and learning how we can assist you.

 

Obviously, if you have had an accident, and you are reading all of this advice, it may have been a few hours since the accident. However, if you ever have another accident, or if it’s only been a few hours since you were hurt, here’s what you should do from the start.

 

First, take a look around and determine if you or anyone, are hurt. If so, taking steps like trying to prevent further injury or loss of blood are the most important thing you can do. Even if some other driver caused you to be injured, it’s just good manners to help the other driver if they are hurt. They may even be so thankful that they admit their fault to you. The worst thing you can do is get angry or start a fight.

 

Second, make sure everyone is safe from being injured further. If you are in the middle of traffic, and you are dizzy, sit down away from traffic. If your vehicle is a traffic hazard and you have accident warning devices like flares or triangles, put them out on the road to warn other drivers and get away from the car. Let the police an other emergency personnel investigate the scene with the vehicles in place and move them more safely at a later point.

 

Third, call the police. Accident reports are extremely helpful if the police will do such a report. Let the police know you are injured immediately. Answer the police questions honestly. But if you are dazed or confused, let them know you need medical treatment and answer only what you feel sure about. Remember, your statements can and will be used against you if you admit fault, and it will be too late and too fishy to later say you didn’t know what you were saying at the scene. Police know that your best recollection is immediately after an accident.

 

Fourth, get the other driver’s information including their names, addresses, driver’s license numbers, make and model of their vehicles, license plate numbers, and their insurance company name and policy number. If there are witnesses, get their names, addresses and telephone numbers as well. If the other driver makes any admissions of fault, write those down as well.

 

Fifth, if you have a camera on your cell phone or in the car and you aren’t too injured, take some photos of the vehicles and the scene. If you can’t do it right away, do it after you are released from the hospital.

Sixth, if you are hurt, obtain medical treatment. Don’t decline the ambulance or hospital examination to save your insurance company money or to be stoic. Take your valuables out of your car if you can and get checked out at the hospital. If you are not hurt, don’t get treatment you don’t need. However, remember, after an accident, you may feel a rush of adrenaline that causes you to only start feeling symptoms of pain a few hours later. If you have a health plan that requires you to obtain permission first, call them and find out where you are allowed to seek treatment.

 

Seventh, call a good bicycle accident lawyer as soon as you have had your initial treatment, so the attorney can gather other important evidence and prevent the insurance company from taking advantage of you and obtaining such things as recorded statements that you feel fine, when many of your symptoms have yet to manifest themselves. A good bicycle accident lawyer can save you from making a great deal of mistakes and can shoulder much of the hassle of knowing what to do about car repairs, car rentals, medical treatment, witness statements and the like. If you think you will save money by not having an attorney, think again. A good bicycle accident lawyer can almost always obtain much higher settlements, obtain reductions of medical bills and insurance liens and prevent you from making costly mistakes. Also, most bicycle accident attorneys advance costs of obtaining police reports, medical records and the like and are paid and reimbursed for these costs only out of any settlement.

 

Eight, you will need to report the accident to your insurance company, but since they will want to take a recorded statement from you, just like any other driver’s insurance company, it’s good advice to retain an attorney first. And if the other driver did not have insurance, remember that it is your own insurance company that will be your adversary. You will also need to report the accident to the Department of Motor Vehicles and your lawyer can give you the form for this.

 

Ninth, do not agree to settle your claim privately with the person at fault for the accident. This almost never works out to your advantage. Don’t agree not to call the police. Police reports that determine the fault for an accident are golden. Your agreement to not involve the police only affords an opportunity for the other driver to change his story and blame you when the police will no longer investigate the accident.

 

Tenth, don’t pay a traffic ticket without a fight if you weren’t at fault or agree to accept a small payment for your vehicle repairs without knowing that the amount will in fact cover the cost of all the repairs.

 

If you’ve had a bicycle accident in Montecito, Long Beach, Santa Monica, Ventura, Oxnard, Carson, Torrance, Camarillo, Manhattan Beach, Cambria or San Luis Obispo, or anywhere in Southern California, we have the knowledge and resources to be your Montecito Bicycle Accident Lawyer and your Santa Barbara Bicycle Accident Attorney. Be sure to hire a California law firm with auto, motorcycle, truck, bicycle, pedestrian, car, bus, train, boat and airplane accident experience, wrongful death experience and insurance law expertise who can ensure you are properly represented and get the compensation you deserve.

 

If you have a personal injury legal matter, a dog bite or if you’ve lost a loved one in a wrongful death accident, call the Law Offices of R. Sebastian Gibson, or visit our website at http://www.SebastianGibsonLaw.com  and learn how we can assist you.

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The Sebastian Gibson Law Firm serves auto accident victims in Montecito, and motorcycle and truck accident clients in Long Beach, Santa Monica, Ventura, Oxnard, Cambria, Camarillo, Torrance, Manhattan Beach, and San Luis Obispo. We also provide excellent representation to bicycle, pedestrian and car accident clients in Orange County, Newport Beach, Anaheim, Irvine, Huntington Beach, Corona del Mar, Laguna Beach, Santa Ana, Orange, Fullerton, Costa Mesa, Westminster, and Buena Park. We also have the knowledge and experience to represent clients from Palm Springs and Palm Desert to Indio, from San Diego to Carlsbad, from Newport Beach to Anaheim, Ontario and Rancho Cucamonga, from Palmdale to Victorville, and all of Southern California.

Visit our website at http://www.sebastiangibsonlaw.com if you have a personal injury legal matter of any kind. We have the knowledge and resources to represent you as your Montecito Bicycle Accident Lawyer and Santa Barbara Bicycle Accident Attorney or your attorney in and around the cities of Oceanside, La Jolla, Del Mar, Chula Vista, El Cajon and Escondido. We also serve Corona, Temecula, Murrieta, Riverside, San Bernardino, Moreno Valley, Fontana, Vista, San Marcos, Solana Beach, Encinitas, Carson, Hermosa Beach, Carpinteria, Goleta, Ojai, Lomoc, and Buellton.

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Bushitler Derangement Syndrome - Bds

It is usually impossible to have a political discussion with anyone who has BDS. People suffering from BDS display disturbing signs of dementia; fantasia; ignorance and an age old favorite – historical rewritingosis. Blaming the world's ills on Bush, or inventing conspiracy theories to impugn via Bush, America and Israel, reveals more about the holder of such distorted ideas; than it does about any claim to veracity of such ideals. BDS is a significant mental disorder.

Why is BDS a danger? BDS has been an epidemic for some time now. It outpaces AIDS; globaloney warming-isis; cancer; and drunk driving as hazards to mental and physical health. BDS also has the incredible power to shape politics and society. If a significant percentage of BDS sufferers populate a given polity, they can change, derange, and falange political and societal discussion – to the negative. BDS is a toxic disease.

You know a person has BDS if any two of the following statements are emitted through their frontal speaking orifice:

1-Bush is really Bushitler

2-Bush is a war criminal

3-Bush's invasion of Iraq was illegal

4-Without Bush, Islam would be peaceful

5-Bush is creating a fascist state

6-Bush is creating a religious-fascist state

7-Bush manufactured 9-11 to achieve 5 and 6 above

8-Bush and Bin Laden are allies

9-Bush is managed by the Joos

10-Bush has destroyed the US economy

11-Bush is a racist who hates immigrants

12-Bush is stupid

13-Bush invaded Iraq because the Joos said to do it

14-Bush lied about WMD so he could invade Iraq and kill people

Why is BDS so dangerous? It is a reality distortion disease. BDS makes some ridiculously assertions. Take its first premise. It equates Bush with Hitler. It makes comparisons between the US and Nazi Germany. The same person will then paradoxically believe that Bush is really a Joo stooge, and that he invaded Iraq because the Joos said so. Or they will say that Bush is creating a religious fascism in the US.

BDS is premised primarily on three ideas. First, Bush is a Hitler who invented 9-11 to consolidate power and invade Iraq for oil. Second, Bush is stupid and is managed by other people, Joos included, who wish to dominate the world. Third, the US is an evil empire, immoral and decadent and Bush is emblematic of that rot.

All of these assertions are tripe, yet they receive media and educational coverage.

In Europe and Canada magazines typically portary Bush as a fascist. The attached image is from a Canadian magazine which asserts that in Iraq, Bush is the new Saddam Hussein – the former Iraqi dictator and President of the Nazified Baath Party. The connection is not hard to see. Bush you see, is actually a fascist. In Canada and Europe, universities are running many courses on American fascism – referencing the current war against fascistic Islam as proof of American fascism. These schools of un-enlightened thought tend to miss the irony of their own material.

BDS is a lethal disease because it causes the sufferer to lose perspective and intelligence. Bush, the GOP, the US, the Christian sects which support in part the Republican party have absolutely nothing in common with the elements which make up a fascist state. None. Fascism relies on ten key ideals [enunciated at length elsewhere on this site], and the US matches none of these.

The US does not own its media; does not own its economy; does not spend more than 3.5 % of GDP on the military; does not have a state religion or cult; does not have youth and social activist groups supporting one leader; does not have a racist or supremacist ideology built around one leader and one party; does not wage war for territorial gain; does not use terrorist militia to quell domestic dissent and does not subsume civil society into a one party state.

Islam however, in its state-political guise, does. BDS sufferers have targeted the wrong man, the wrong state and the wrong ideology.

This is the pure irony of BDS sufferers. Islam has murdered since 9-11 about 100.000 in Iraq; 200.000 to 400.000 in Darfur and 60.000 more around the world, and yet Bushitler is the fascist?

Muslims routinely engage in honor killings; violent demonstrations; rape; homicide attacks; and issue on the internet and in weekly sermons lectures about killing Jews and kaffirs and dominating the world; but somehow Bush is the new Hitler?

Islam shuts down free speech; sues authors and commentators who question Islam; denounce those who inquire as to what Islam really is all about; and yet Bushitler is the fascist?

Islam demands the melding of the church and state; 12th century Sharia Law; and pagan ritualisation using only Arabic, and yet Bush is the fascist who denies free will?

Interesting logic.

BDS is built on lies, illogic, fantasy and pure anti-Jew, anti-American racism. That is what BDS is truly about. BDS victims ignore the real tragedy taking place in the world – the replacement by degree, by pieces, by violence and by war of Western-inspired ideals, by a pre-modern paganism. Iraq and Afghanistan are slowly stabilising and will over time become Western models in a region of anti-modern fascism. 50 million people are becoming free. Yet Bushitler is the fascist. How does freeing Iraq for instance and allowing Iraqis to keep their own oil money, constitute fascist aggression?

How is Guantanamo Bay where Muslim prisoners caught fighting out of uniform, killing US soldiers compare with a Gulag? Surely Russian Gulag prisoners were not fed 3 times daily their preferred Muslim diet, allowed to pray, and given adequate hospital treatment? How is the limited use of torture compared to Nazi interrogation techniques in which the victim was tortured and if uncooperative simply killed? How is not signing a treaty on globaloney warming, which is an unscientific attempt to control the world's energy system by politicians and the UN, akin to denying the holocaust? How is, in other words, a rationally skeptical mind, equated with following a fascist cult? Shouldn't the charges be made, the other way around?

Some reasonably people can argue that waging war in the Middle East is a mistake. But to take that criticism and evolve it into BDS is a sign of some form of insanity. Making up stories to spew hate is counter productive. Bush is pro-immigration [the US border is a mess]; the economy is in good shape [contrary to media negativity]; the US has record levels of wealth; the Americans and mostly the Christians are by far the world's most generous donors to charities in the world; and American power is the keystone to maintain Western civilisation.

You might hate the US for many reasons – probably none of which makes sense and which reveal more about the bathos of your mentality then it does about reality. But to engage in extremist rhetoric and conflate your hatred of a man who had to respond to 9-11 and the rampage of Islamic fascism, with Hitler is simply pathetic. It illustrates the depths, the sad levels and the lack of erudition in our society – from the media to our schools and says nothing positive about the BDS sufferer.

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New York's Point & Insurance Reduction Program

New York state has a driving record points system.  For every type of moving violation conviction, drivers will receive demerit points on their driving records.  Violations can include speeding, reckless driving, failure to yield, DUI, or violations involving traffic signs or signals.  The amount of points depends upon the severity of the violation.  After receiving a certain number of points, disciplinary action in the form of a license suspension or revocation will occur to the driver from the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV).

Drivers who wish to lower the number of points on their record have the option of completing a Point and Insurance Reduction Program (PIRP).  There are many benefits to completing an approved PIRP through a private company called course sponsors.  Throughout the educational course, drivers will receive an overview to traffic laws, learn driving safety tips, and refresh their driving skills.  In some cases, drivers will be eligible to have points taken off their driving record.  They might also benefit from lower insurance rates.

The course is available in traditional classrooms or online through the Alternate Delivery Method.  Regardless of the type of class, there is a minimum amount of course time, and the student must complete it within a specific window of time.  Some courses have a final exam to verify the student's knowledge.

If the DMV reduces points from the driver's record because of a PIRP class, it is important to note that most violations are not erased from the record permanently.  The points are simply not used against a driver who would otherwise face a license suspension or revocation.  It is also not possible to reduce the total number of points to less than zero, which would basically be like adding "credit" against future traffic violations.

Insurance companies will reduce the premiums for liability and collision insurance if the driver shows proof that they completed a PIRP.  It does not prevent an insurance company from raising premiums in general. 

Drivers in New York cities such as Albany and Schenectady should consider retaining a lawyer to fight their traffic tickets to keep their driving records clean. 

 

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