Dallas head on collision lawyer.

The driver who crossed into the oncoming lanes. On a divided road like Central Expressway that almost always means a wrong-way entry, and Texas law requires drivers to keep to the right half of the roadway under Section 545.051 of the Texas Transportation Code.

The statute allows four narrow exceptions, so the scene evidence still decides the case. An exception does not excuse a crash on its own.

Only if passing was permitted at that spot and could have been completed safely. Both halves have to be true.

Lane markings, sight distance, the position of the slower vehicle, and the debris field settle it. On a two-lane road with a turn lane, the geometry is usually against the driver who tried it.

From the road and the vehicles. Tire marks and gouges locate the impact, the debris field gives the angle, crush damage shows how the cars met, and the event data recorder holds speed, braking, and steering from the seconds before.

Dallas corridors carry traffic cameras. The two-lane roads at the edge of the county do not, so the physical evidence is the whole record, and it fades with rain and traffic. Where that evidence and the crash report disagree, a reconstruction engineer settles it.

It changes what we look for. Research on fatal wrong-way crashes ties roughly six in ten to an alcohol-impaired driver, and the Dallas crashes that reach the news cluster between 1 and 2 a.m.

Where impairment is in the picture we look past the driver. If a bar or restaurant over-served them before the crash, Texas dram-shop law can reach that business, which matters most when the driver carried only minimum limits.

You can still recover if your share is 50 percent or less. Your compensation drops by your percentage, and above 50 percent you recover nothing, under Section 33.001 of the Texas Civil Practice and Remedies Code.

In a head on the impact itself is rarely denied, so the argument moves to your driving. That is why the scene evidence gets built from measurements rather than recollections.

It runs out fast. The minimum is 30,000 dollars for one injured person, a figure unchanged since 2011, and a serious frontal impact passes it quickly.

Being blameless does not make that policy any bigger: the at-fault liability policy pays first and stops at its limit whoever caused the crash. Once it is exhausted we look to an employer’s policy if the driver was working, excess coverage above the first policy, and your own uninsured and underinsured motorist coverage. PIP and MedPay pay medical bills regardless of who caused the crash.

Ask which of these policies may apply in your case

The figure minus four things, in order: the attorney fee, case expenses, medical liens, and unpaid provider bills. On a 25,000 dollar policy those deductions decide most of what reaches you.

No reliable average exists to quote you. A claim is priced from the bills already issued, your doctor’s written projection for future care, your employment records, and the coverage behind the crash, then reduced by whatever share of fault the other side argues. We put the arithmetic in writing before you sign anything.

A suit from a Dallas crash is generally filed in Dallas County district court. Most Texas personal injury lawsuits must be filed within two years of the crash, under Section 16.003 of the Texas Civil Practice and Remedies Code.

Those two years govern the lawsuit, not the evidence. Vehicles get repaired or scrapped and camera footage is overwritten within days, so the proof runs out long before the deadline does.