ManyLivesToLive
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Hey Levi, I'm not a lawyer and probably noone else is on here. But I do know that there are more than a few problems that I see in these posts.
1. If you pay your ticket, then it can be taken as you agreeing that you were responsible for the accident...that means, you are saying that you are responsible for all the damages. Hold off on paying it for now, and consult your insurance agent. Tell them that you don't believe you are at fault; if they tell you to just pay the ticket so they can get you the money, blah, blah, blah, then you need to start looking for another company. Either way, after consulting the ins. agency, then consult a lawyer. The consultations are usually FREE and some insurance companies will get you a lawyer, so ask them when you talk to them
2. If you consult a lawyer (and are honest with them) and they believe that you have a case, then they won't charge you anything up front.
3. Ambulances aren't always run by the counties, cities, state, fire rescue,etc. Many of them are private companies. Yes, many of them are just delivery companies such as UPS & Fed-Ex, but they make deliveries just to hospitals.
4. The cop doesn't have the final word; he is not the judge nor jury. Cops usually have to make snap judgements while looking out for the better good of the situation. This is because if the ambulance driver gets a ticket, his career may be over. You, on the other hand, are young and can recover from a ticket...if that is what the cop was thinking, then I wouldn't blame him. But, if I were you, I would push it all the way to court, but then again, the ambulance company may just give you a ni$e little $ettlement just to get you to shut up....
5. More than likely, no one on here, not even me, knows the law as well as lawyers do, so consult a lawyer! BUT, DUDE! If that ambulance didn't slow down, put on their siren at an intersection, or turn around, then I would be sure that a lawyer would like to pick this case up in a heart beat. God forbid, what if someone was in the same situation as you, but had their hand or arm out the window? How did the ambulance driver know that they didn't just injure a newborn baby in your car?...just a small scratch on the ambulance? Does this mean that the cop is trying to downplay the acccident by saying that maybe they didn't "feel" or "see" that they hit you? If so, I am sure that a jury would start questioning why the cop isn't putting an end to the fact that there is group of people flying around your town in a 12,000 truck who are so unaware of the actions that they hit someone and not one of them in the truck even noticed!
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