Please help.(Edited) Should i get an attorney after this accident?
I was driving my brothers scion tc early one morning and this crazy taxi side swiped me making me run of the road and eventually the car hit the curb so hard and because of the sport suspension, it flipped skidded and hit an electric pole and broke 2 mail boxes. When the police came, i was standing there being bashed with all kind of traffic violations when i really didn’t deserve not even one of the them. The taxi had ran and i didn’t get the tag number or anything and it was during early morning and i didn’t have any witnesses. Now i gotta go to court in less than 2 weeks, i’m was only 17 and the sad thing is that my age group is considered reckless and dangerous even though i haven’t had a ticket or any violation in the year and i half i’ve had my license(i’m a really down to earth cautious driver), plus scion tc is known to cause accidents among the youth coz its affordable and reliable with high performance, good recipe for a youth car. I’ve been told that since it my first violation, the judge might be lenient on me, all the three traffic violations on me and i might get them dropped even if i don have a lawyer with me. I’m so worried because if i happen to be given those points with are about 9 points in NC, i will never be able to afford my insurance all through my college life. Should i get an attorney or do you think the judge will be lenient?
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I wasn’t hurt which is one thing that made me appreciate life and give it a whole new look coz the car was totaled, plus the accident happened 2 weeks before i turned 18 which puts me as an adult since i’ve already turned 18. The charges were:
1)Driving on restricted times coz i’m not supposed to drive between 9pm and 5am. The accident happened at 4:55 am. but i can drive at anytime now that i turned 18. The main reason why i was driving was because my brother picked me up after a night of partying and i saw the guy was completely drunk so i decided to drive because he was drunk and we had to get home coz we i had to be in church in like 3 hrs.
2) Aggressive driving.
3)Speeding. He said i must have been doing over 65 mph on a 35mph zone just because the car hit and broke the electric pole. And the car’s gross weight is about 4000 pounds which i find it as a really unfair and unprofessional judgment.
Also my brother, who i don’t live with didn’t have insurance of which i honestly didn’t know that he didn’t have it which makes the case harder because theres no letter from the insurance company. My parents were sooooooooooo mad after discovering that, good thing is that he will learn his lesson that motor vehicle insurance is nothing to play with after loosing a $14000 car when he is only 20 and living alone, plus i don have to pay him anything coz he risked my life and many other things such as hurting or killing someone while uninsured.
Worried youth.
Get a lawyer or public defendant. You flipping has nothing to do with your speed it is the speed of the person who hit you. Call the local taxi companies and ask about a damaged car. More than likely the driver said he got hit by someone who ran- unless it was a stolen taxi.
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Get a lawyer or public defendant. You flipping has nothing to do with your speed it is the speed of the person who hit you. Call the local taxi companies and ask about a damaged car. More than likely the driver said he got hit by someone who ran- unless it was a stolen taxi.
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You were driving when you shouldn’t have been driving, and driving with no insurance. Doesn’t matter why.
Add to that most officers of the law can look at an accident scene and determine your speed before the accident. If he said 65, that’s what you were doing.
No one is going to believe your phantom taxi cab that caused you to crash. Even if there were one, it wouldn’t cause you to crash because you should have stopped and notified the police when he tried to hit you the fist time.
An attorney won’t help get you off, but I’d still talk to one to see what you’re facing.
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