You enter an intersection with a green light. Another vehicle comes from the side and does not stop. Within seconds, a normal drive becomes a serious car accident. Red-light collisions can be particularly dangerous because the driver who has the green light may have little or no time to react. Depending on the direction and speed of the vehicles, the crash may involve a direct impact into the driver’s or passenger’s side of a vehicle. If you are injured in a red light accident in Massachusetts, it may seem obvious that the driver who ran the light should be responsible.
Sometimes the evidence supports exactly that conclusion.
But determining legal responsibility still requires evidence showing what happened at the intersection. Drivers may disagree about which light was red. Witnesses may have different recollections. An insurance company may argue that the injured driver was speeding, distracted, or otherwise contributed to the
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