Food Delivery Bike Ran Over My Foot Lawyer

Can I Sue If a Food Delivery Bike Ran Over My Foot?

Yes, you can sue if someone ran over your foot while he or she was delivering food to a customer from an app. These days, more and more people are using food delivery apps for the ordering of food at their home or office. It is easy, quick and satisfying to order food and have it delivered quickly by bike courier in large urban areas of a city. But these food deliveries have a dark side. The person ordering the food may never know that his or her food delivery courier had an accident on the way to getting their food delivered. These accidents with food delivery couriers can result in serious injuries to pedestrians who are unlucky enough to get in their path or in their way.

Lawyer That Can Help

The market for food delivery couriers is growing fast. This means that there are more orders that are coming in than can be handled by the current numbers of employed food delivery workers. In general, the orders come in too fast, and with fewer bike delivery couriers on the road, they need to hasten and have quick turnarounds to keep their employers and the customers happy as well.

In the haste to move faster, some bike couriers will have accidents where they are on sidewalks and run over the feet of pedestrians in their path. Or the bike couriers are in the streets riding, and can run over the foot of someone legally crossing the street in the crosswalk. When you are run over on your foot or any part of your body by a food delivery bike operator, you will want to talk to a lawyer who can help you fast.

When you call our law office, you will get the help you need quickly. We can talk to you about your claim, and review the next steps for you to initiate a lawsuit on your behalf. You will need time to heal from your injuries, and at the same time, it is appropriate to start a lawsuit for you right now. We can help you get back the recovery compensation that you need to reimburse you for your lost wages and other losses, when a food delivery bike runs over your foot.

Bike Delivery Carriers in Los Angeles, California

Here are some of the more popular bike delivery couriers in Los Angeles. If you are injured by one of these couriers, just give us a call. If you have been hurt by a different carrier, you can still give us a call too, as we are confident that we will be able to help you as well. These couriers are:

• ShipDms
• Ziply
• A-1 Courier
• Clockwork Express
• LA Messenger
• Minute Man Delivery
• Pacific Couriers
• Red Line Courier Service
• Split-Second Delivery
• The Courier Company
• Zoom Errands
• Statewide Courier Service
• SMEX 24/7
• Priority Messenger Service
• Now Messenger Service
• Mail Dispatch
• Essential Courier
• A-Line Messenger Service

If you have been hit by any of these bicycle delivery couriers, or by any other type of bike courier, just give us a call today. We need to talk to you right now about your personal injuries getting run over by a bike courier out on a delivery.

Do I Have a Case?

Yes, you have a case when a delivery biker runs over your foot, causing personal injuries. Your foot being run over will be very painful, and may stop you from being able to go to work and earn a living. This means that you will need to have your lost wages to be given back to you in the form of a final settlement package, which is the best way to settle out this case. You may not have any part in being run over by a delivery courier, you are an innocent bystander in some cases. We will need to review your situation, as all cases are handled and analyzed on an individual basis.

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How Can I Find Who It Was Who Hit Me?

If possible, you can take a snapshot of the bike carrier who hit you. You can also try to get access to any store video camera images after you have filed a police report.

How To Report the Accident?

You can report the accident to your local police department. You can show them the images of the rider or bike that you have taken if you did with your smartphone. You can tell the police or the law enforcement authorities about what you saw and what happened.

There may be witnesses, you can get their statement or refer the police to talk to any witnesses to the scene. Your formal police report of the incident is an important document to follow up on and to make at the time of the accident. If you do require an ambulance at the scene, then call for one or have one called for you by the police if necessary.

What Are My Rights?

Your rights are that you have the right to walk down the street without being accosted and run over by a food delivery bike. You need not suffer in silence on this claim. You can initiate a lawsuit against the bike rider and company, when the bike courier runs over your foot with a bike. Each case is different, but we will review the applicable law and come to a winning strategy for you when you give us a call to start working on your case.

Massive Injuries to the Foot – CRPS

Complex Regional Pain Syndrome or CRPS is a highly misunderstood chronic pain condition. It affects the sensory, motor and autonomic symptoms, usually affecting a person’s arm or leg. Some people can experience severe neuropsychological changes after trauma such as an accident. It is difficult to diagnose CRPS, and as difficult to treat the ailment too.

It is likely that a person will develop CRPS after an accident, sprain, fracture or after being run over on the foot by a person on a delivery bike. This is a highly painful condition, where people suffering from CRPS are in extreme and constant pain.

What Are the Symptoms of CRPS?

If you have CRPS, you may also feel a high level of pain in relation to a crushing foot injury, such as with the following symptoms:

• Continuous pain
• Hyperesthesia
• Hyperalgesia
• Allodynia
• Temperature asymmetry
• Skin color changes and asymmetry
• Sweating changes
• Decreased range of motion
• Motor dysfunction
• Increased pain
• Vasomotor responses slowed
• Painful sensations to sound
• Incongruent mirror visual feedback
• Weakness
• Tremor
• Dystonia
• Trophic changes to hair, nails and skin
• Oedema
• Swelling
• Fractures of bone
• Infections under the skin and over the broken skin
• Rhabdomyolysis (dead muscles release enzymes to cause possible kidney failure)
• Necrosis (muscles die and affect nearby tissues)
• Compartment syndrome
• Blood depravation to the foot area in general
• Tightness of the skin
• Bruising
• Intense pain all day
• Numbness
• Prickling sensations
• Electric sensations
• Deep aches in the area of the foot
• Shooting pains through the legs

If you suffer any of these injuries or symptoms after a personal injury of being run over on your foot by a bike food delivery driver, just let us know. We know what to do next to help you. Just give us a call today.

Typical Areas Where You Might Be Run Over by a Food Delivery Bike

The type of roadway that you are walking on, near or on the sidewalk adjacent to will increase the likelihood that you will be hit by a courier on a bike. These factors can include the following situations where you may have found yourself out walking in the community, such as where:

• Average sidewalk width
• Car lane widths
• Distractedness of the bike delivery rider
• Number of traffic lanes on the street
• Gravel or paved shoulders and bike lanes
• Block size in the city
• Neighborhood businesses in a close area
• Number of car lanes and parking lanes
• Number of left and right-turn lanes for merging cars turning
• Presence of crossing areas and labeled crosswalks
• Type of traffic control such as stop lights or stop signs
• Areas with paved sidewalks, curbs or no curbed areas
• Posted speed limits or areas where no posted limit is shown
• Bus stops in the road that bike has to go around
• Bike delivery driver distractions (eating, looking for directions)
• Number of cars on the road at the time, and general high traffic hours and patterns
• On street parking in the daytime and nighttime hours
• Street lighting
• Weather conditions
• Drainage for water in the street
• Signs telling bikes not to ride on the sidewalks
• Allowances for cars to turn right on red lights

Call for a Free Consultation

When you are ready to talk to us about your personal injuries from being run over on your foot by a food delivery bike rider, just give us a call. We are able to give you a free consultation to review your claim for you. Call today, we are here and ready to help you get the recovery compensation that you need and deserve in this case.

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