Dallas, TX
Car Accident Lawyers

J. Alexander Law Firm has handled injury claims for drivers, passengers, and pedestrians hurt in Dallas car crashes since 2017, from our office on US 75 just south of LBJ Freeway.

Dallas crashes often pull in more than two cars. From 2021 through 2025, 23,416 Dallas crash reports listed three or more vehicles, about 1 in 7, against about 1 in 8 statewide. When several drivers and insurers each blame someone else, we work out who caused what and which policies have to pay.

Reviewed by Josh Alexander, Founder and Managing Attorney · Updated October 2026

Se habla español. Calls are answered around the clock, seven days a week.

5.0539 Google reviews, Dallas office

Client Video: Rear Ended on 635 on the Way Home

“Nothing big. It was just a… just a fender bender.”

On his drive home from work on I-635, another driver rear ended Chris. He made it home feeling a little sore.

The next morning he woke up with tingling in his hand and fingers, and he had injured his spine before. He called that evening, around six or seven, and heard back within hours. In his words, “All I had to do is do what they told me to do and go seek the help that I needed to get.”

Watch Chris’s Story on YouTube

Chris’s outcome was specific to his case and is no guide to how yours will turn out.

What Makes Us Proudly Different From Other Car Accident Firms

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  1. Insurance defense experience

    Matthew Graham tried cases for insurance companies for more than a decade and directed subrogation litigation in a ten state region for the second largest auto insurer in the nation before he switched sides.

  2. Quick settlements

    Several of our published results closed before any suit was filed, at $50,000 to $175,000 each; when an insurer stalls, we’re ready to file.

  3. No fee unless we recover

    33% during pre litigation, 40% during litigation, and a $300 administrative fee, all paid only from a recovery.

  4. 60+ years of legal experience, combined

    Counted together, our attorneys’ years in practice pass 60.

  5. Veteran led

    Before law school, Josh Alexander was an active duty Marine through 2007 and deployed for Operation Iraqi Freedom.

  6. A case manager assigned to you, with updates every two weeks

    You hear from a named case manager at least every 14 days. After hours, one of our staff told a caller in September, “I know we do close the office at 5, but I’m available pretty much 24/7.”

  7. Direct access to your attorney

    In Laura Rivas’s own words: “The client picks up the phone and a real lawyer answers…”

Meet the Attorneys on Your Case

  • Josh Alexander, Founder and Managing Attorney at J. Alexander Law Firm

    Josh Alexander

    Founder and Managing Attorney

    Lawsuits, mediation and case strategy

    Josh Alexander founded the firm in 2017, leads its lawsuits and also works as a mediator. He reviews the firm’s published case results, including the Abrams Road case below.

    State Bar of Texas license record

    Read Josh’s Bio
  • Matthew Graham, Managing Litigation Attorney at J. Alexander Law Firm

    Matthew Graham

    Managing Litigation Attorney

    Insurer disputes and lawsuits

    Matthew Graham has practiced civil litigation since 2000, much of it on the insurers’ side. When a Dallas claim will not settle, he brings that view of the other side to the lawsuit.

    State Bar of Texas license record

    Read Matthew’s Bio
  • Laura Rivas, Senior Associate Attorney at J. Alexander Law Firm

    Laura Rivas

    Senior Associate Attorney

    Medical proof and litigation

    Laura Rivas grew up in Allen and serves clients in both English and Spanish. She graduated with honors from St. Mary’s law school and worked at two other Dallas injury firms before joining us.

    State Bar of Texas license record

    Read Laura’s Bio

What Happened on Our Dallas Calls and Cases

Front of our client’s silver car after the Rockwall County chain reaction, hood crumpled, bumper hanging and windshield shattered
Your situation What happened, and what we do
More than one car hit you

On SH 205 in Rockwall County, a restoration company’s driver hit our client’s stopped car from behind, shoving it into the car ahead and then into oncoming lanes, where it was hit head on.

Laura Rivas, Senior Associate Attorney, documented each impact and the employer’s connection to the crash, and the claim settled for $600,000 during litigation. In any pileup, we trace every impact and ask who was working.

Your car was towed and you need a rental

A red light runner T boned a caller driving home from work in Dallas in August. The car was towed, and with liability only, the caller asked if a rental was out of pocket.

We take no fee from the property damage claim or a rental. Our staff said, “you can give us those receipts and we’ll include that in the demand.” Tow yards charge daily.

The driver fled, but you have full coverage

In September a driver rear ended a caller on I-35E and fled across the lanes, and police texted a link instead of coming. The caller had full coverage but did not know what it included.

Our staff answered in Spanish, “cuando uno tiene full coverage no significa que tiene todas las coberturas disponibles” (full coverage does not mean every coverage), then read the declarations page and found underinsured motorist coverage.

No officer came, and you have no health insurance

Rear ended in Dallas in August with two kids aboard, a mother called police twice: “they said since it was not like a serious injury, they couldn’t come and give me a report.”

She had no health insurance, so our staff set up a 24 hour ER visit that evening, paid from her claim at the end. For the missing report, read our no police report guide.

The other driver said you looked fine and left

A mother told us in July that the driver who rear ended her daughter said, “You look fine, so there’s no need for me to give you my insurance,” and left. Her daughter photographed the plate.

Leaving without sharing insurance makes it a hit and run. We work from the plate and the police report to put a name to that driver; see our hit and run page.

Their insurance card was in someone else’s name

In July a speeding car hit a caller pulling out of a Dallas apartment complex. They swapped cards, but “la aseguranza que traía no estaba a nombre de ella” (the insurance was not in her name).

A card is not a policy. We check whether that insurer covers whoever was driving and tell you plainly if not; see our guide to drivers who left, lied, or carried no insurance.

A DART van or a company truck hit you

In June a DART van turned left across a caller’s lane on a US 75 service road, and the caller hit the back of it. Dallas police left the report to DART police.

Our staff explained, “we’ll send the preservation letter as well. That way they preserve the dashcam footage.” Company trucks usually carry dash cams too, and a claim against DART has its own notice deadline.

Our client’s silver Chrysler with its front end torn away after the Abrams Road crash in Dallas, with police vehicles stopped behind it

Dallas Crash Reports, by the Numbers

How many car accidents happen in Dallas?

TxDOT’s CRIS database lists 151,733 reportable crashes in Dallas from 2021 through 2025, about 83 a day, including 24,685 in 2025.

Key Findings

  • 5,816 crashes were fatal or serious, with 1,062 people killed and 5,743 seriously injured
  • 15.4% of reports involved three or more vehicles, against 11.9% statewide, and 1,146 involved five or more
  • At least 29.3% of reports were flagged hit and run, against 15.1% statewide
  • 51% of fatal or serious crashes were on city streets, and Loop 12 had the most of any road (480)
  • All Dallas crash reports fell 30.1% over those years; across Texas, 2.5%
  • Dallas police reports fell 39%, from 26,492 in 2021 to 16,096 in 2025, while the sheriff’s stayed near 6,000 a year
  • In 2025, the sheriff and Texas DPS wrote 31.1% of Dallas crash reports, on roads Dallas police now cover

Dallas Crash Reports by Agency and Year

Agency202120222023202420252021 to 2025
Dallas Police Department26,49225,71723,37018,04716,096109,722
Dallas County Sheriff’s Office6,9076,2646,2195,9196,34031,649
Texas Department of Public Safety1,1011,1351,1401,2361,3395,951
DART Police3733344183733521,850
47 other agencies4535094905515582,561
All agencies35,32633,95931,63726,12624,685151,733

The steepest drop in Dallas police reports came after July 2023, when minor crash reports moved online: 23,370 in 2023, 18,047 in 2024. Its reports of crashes with no one injured fell from 15,364 to 8,473. CRIS counts reports filed, not crashes, so it cannot say how many went unreported.

Dallas Highways: Crashes and Who Worked Them

RoadCrashesFatal or seriousAgency on most reportsIts share
I-35E15,377467County sheriff80%
I-3010,272264County sheriff86%
I-205,781178County sheriff85%
US 1752,134101County sheriff78%
Woodall Rodgers (Spur 366)1,83138County sheriff75%
I-3451,24329County sheriff52%
I-635 (LBJ Freeway)10,791327Dallas police97%
US 75 (Central Expressway)6,586227Dallas police98%
Loop 128,986480Dallas police90%
I-452,275105Dallas police66%
Toll roads, such as the Dallas North Tollway6,224135Texas DPS93%

Shares count every agency’s reports on each road. The toll road row uses TxDOT’s road class field.

How Dallas Crashes Happened

Crash typeCrashesShareFatal or serious
Rear end (codes 20, 22)38,82725.6%824
One vehicle, including a vehicle striking a pedestrian (codes 1 to 5)34,94823.0%2,736
Same direction sideswipe (code 21)26,10117.2%353
T bone, two cars going straight (code 10)20,11213.3%767
Left turn across opposing traffic (code 34)14,0979.3%581
Every other manner code17,64811.6%555

How We Counted

On October 3, 2026, we queried TxDOT’s public CRIS database for all reportable crashes with Dallas as the report city, 2021 through 2025. The officer chooses that city, so a crash close to a city limit may be counted on either side.

Agency is the CRIS field naming the investigating officer’s department. A crash counts as serious when TxDOT codes it K, for a death, or A, for a suspected serious injury. Statewide figures use the same query for all of Texas.

The hit and run figure is a floor, since the flag is blank on some vehicle records. A crash counts as three or more vehicles when the report lists a motor vehicle as unit 3 or higher.

Crash data comes from TxDOT CRIS, which our team queried on October 3, 2026. Policy sources: Dallas Police Department release, City of Dallas memo, NBC 5 report.

Cases Where the Record Made the Difference

Two of these crashes were in Dallas County; the third had no police report at all. Browse all case results.

  • First page of the redacted Texas Peace Officer’s Crash Report for the three vehicle crash at Abrams Road and Heatherdale Drive in Dallas

    $105,000 After a Stop Sign Driver Pulled Onto Abrams Road

    What happened: A driver from Heatherdale Drive failed to yield at the stop sign, hit our client’s car on Abrams Road, then struck a stopped Jeep.

    The issue: The report put the crash on the other driver, yet the insurer’s first offer was a low ball settlement.

    What mattered: Her emergency room, imaging, chiropractic, and pain management records, and a UM/UIM claim that added $5,000 to the $100,000 policy limit.

    Open the Abrams Road Case
  • Front end damage to the other driver’s white pickup after it rear ended our client’s truck

    $100,000 After a Rear End Crash That Left No Police Report

    What happened: A Ford F-150 rear ended our client’s Chevrolet Silverado, and no officer prepared a report.

    The issue: Without an officer’s account, the claim had to rest on other evidence.

    What mattered: Photos of both trucks and the scene, MRI findings, cervical facet injections, and 25 chiropractic visits. No lawsuit was needed.

    Open the No Report Case
  • Our client’s Toyota Camry beside the concrete barrier on eastbound I-30 in Mesquite after the 18 wheeler crash

    $600,000 After an 18 Wheeler Moved Into a Camry on I-30

    What happened: On eastbound I-30 in Mesquite, an 18 wheeler moving back into its lane hit our client’s Camry, which then struck the trailer and a guardrail.

    The issue: The trucking company’s insurer started low.

    What mattered: The officer coded the truck for an unsafe lane change and for failing to control speed, witnesses said it had been swerving, and our client needed a five day hospital stay.

    Open the Mesquite Case

Amounts are full settlement totals, before the fee, costs, and medical liens. Facts differ from claim to claim, so none of these outcomes predicts yours.

Reviews About Having the Hard Parts Handled

J. Alexander Law Firm attorneys and staff outside the North Texas Food Bank
  • “Had a difficult time dealing with the other insurance company. Thanks to the J Alexander Lawfirm team this case was expedited and finalized in a timely manner.”

    Metro L., Google review
  • “J. Alexander Law in Dallas handled everything and made the whole process so easy. I can’t thank them enough.”

    America R., Google review
  • “Stephanie, Luis, Manuel, the whole team was incredible and helped me out from the moment I got hit. They explained every step and made it simple.”

    Alo M., Google review

Our Dallas office’s Google listing shows 5.0 stars from 539 reviews.

Individual experiences, not a forecast. Read the reviews on Google · Client testimonials

How We Build Your Dallas Car Accident Case

  • A laptop cabled to the dashboard port of a crashed vehicle to download its event data

    We find the report, or rebuild what it would have shown

    We buy the crash report the day it posts and read every code with our Texas Crash Report Decoder. With no report, the evidence we collect takes its place.

    Roadside advice, August

    “…definitely call the police. Take photos if you can. Get her insurance info. Copy of her driver’s license.”

  • The Dallas client from the parking garage crash story, in the thumbnail of her client video

    We document the injury from the first symptom

    We help you get seen and keep every record in order. A Dallas client’s parking garage crash looked minor and ended in neck surgery, which is why we track symptoms from day one.

    After an ER visit, July

    “we would set you up with pain management, and then from there, the doctor will evaluate you and give his recommendations as far as either physical therapy or chiro.”

  • A maroon Honda sedan and a gray Jeep after the three vehicle crash at Abrams Road and Heatherdale Drive in Dallas

    We find all the coverage, not just one policy

    We look past the at fault driver’s limit to your own UM/UIM coverage, an employer’s policy, or a trucking company’s insurance.

    When nobody had coverage, July

    We check your own policy on the first call. An Uber driver hit by uninsured drivers got the hard answer: “there’s no insurance for any of us to go after if none of them had insurance and then you didn’t carry any uninsured motorist.”

  • Josh Alexander, founder of J. Alexander Law Firm, seated in a navy suit

    We negotiate from a finished file and file suit when needed

    Josh Alexander leads our lawsuits and also serves as a mediator, so the other side knows we are ready for either.

    In Josh’s words

    “I know what a mediator needs to see before a case can resolve. I know what insurance companies look for before they move.” Read Josh’s bio

Talk With a Dallas Car Accident Lawyer

Before you talk with the other driver’s insurer, you can call us. Our staff can open that claim for you; as one told a caller in June, “That way you don’t have to give a statement to them.” When you call, tell us:

  • Where it happened, and how many vehicles were involved
  • When it happened, plus the officer’s card or online report number if you have one
  • Photos and the other driver’s information

We will not promise a number or a finish date. You will get a free review, an honest answer about whether we can help, and no attorney fee unless money is recovered.

Visit Us on North Central Expressway

North Central Plaza III, on the US 75 east service road south of LBJ Freeway, and parking for visitors is free. Our office visit guide has directions. Can’t travel? We meet by phone or video, or an attorney comes to you.

12801 N. Central Expressway, Suite 1100
Dallas, Texas 75243

Disclaimer: This page is general background on Dallas car accident claims; it is not advice for your own case. Reaching out to us does not make us your lawyers; only a signed agreement does. Earlier outcomes cannot tell you how another matter will end.