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Who Got the Ticket and How Does that Affect My Palm Beach County Car Accident Case

Violation of a traffic law or regulation is prima facie evidence of negligence that can be rebutted by other facts and circumstances in determining ultimate liability in your Palm Beach County car accident case.  Usually the person who got the ticket violated some Florida law or Palm Beach County traffic regulation.  Your West Palm Beach car crash attorney can use statutes to indicate the standard os care applied to someone operating a motor vehicle in Palm Beach County.

Once this standard is established for the jury, the West Palm Beach personal inury attorney can show further eveidence of what happened by using charts and diagrams detailing the movement of the vehicles or using an expert to testify to external and internal force within the vehicle and the torqueing of the spine and lumbar/neck area.  If your Palm Beach Coutny car crash attorney can prove to the jury that the wrongdoer violated a Florida law, then he/she can ask the court to issue jury instructions for deliberation purposes stating that the wrongdoer's violation of the law is prim facie evidence of fault.

The attorney representing the car accident insurance company may try to prove that there were extenuating circumstances so the jury should put aside evidence o fault. An example is that the wrongdoer ran a redlight becuase the injured was driving the wrong way on a one way street.