New Jersey Complaint Negligence Operation of Automobile

If your vehicle is damaged in an accident, the responsible driver's insurance company should pay for the cost to repair your vehicle. However, if the responsible driver is uninsured or does not have insurance coverage for property damage, there are a couple options.

Webster's Dictionary defines an accident as follows: an unfortunate happening that occurs unintentionally and results in harm, injury, damage or loss. By contrast, negligence as defined by most jurisdictions in the United States including California, is the lack of ordinary care or skill in the

A driver who runs a stop sign causing an injury crash. A store owner who fails to put up a Caution: Wet Floor sign after mopping up a spill. A property owner who fails to replace rotten steps on a wooden porch that collapses and injures visiting guests.

Negligent driving includes: Unintentionally failing to provide a safe environment for other drivers and pedestrians. Incidents where the term accidental may be used to describe the event. Driving on private property without the owner's consent. Driving under the influence of non-prescribed drugs or alcohol.

Written accident reports must be filed within 10 days following the accident. You must use the official state form, New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission Motor Vehicle Accident Report. The New Jersey Self-Reporting Crash form should be filed to report an accident that was not investigated by any police agency.

Negligence is defined as the failure to use ordinary care. In the case of an auto accident, negligence means that a driver failed to exercise the care toward others which a reasonable person would do in the circumstances, or took action that a reasonable person would not under the circumstances.

Negligence is in general defined as the failure to exercise the care that is expected of a reasonable person in similar circumstances so vehicular negligence can be doing such in a vehicle such as a car, truck or motorcycle.

New Jersey is one of a handful of states with no-fault car insurance laws. Despite its name, no-fault does not mean that fault is not assigned following a car accident.

New Jersey is a contributory negligence state, which means that the person asking for damages in a lawsuit has to be less responsible for the accident than the person who allegedly caused the accident.