Bicycle Accident Lawyer in Upland, CA
After a Bicycle Crash, Preserve the Roadway Story and Your Recovery.
Cyclists can be seriously injured by turning vehicles, unsafe passing, opened doors, road hazards, and drivers who fail to account for a bicycle. Metropolis Law Group investigates the collision and builds a claim around the evidence and its real-life impact.
Free, confidential consultation. Contingency-fee representation is available.
Bicycle Collisions Require a Careful Scene Analysis.
The location of the bicycle, vehicle movement, bike-lane markings, intersection design, sight lines, surface conditions, and nearby video can answer questions that a brief police report may not resolve.
Our attorneys preserve available evidence, investigate driver conduct and roadway factors, identify potentially responsible parties and coverage, and document the injuries and losses.
Bicycle Accident Cases We Evaluate
We review vehicle movements, right-of-way, bicycle positioning, roadway design, visibility, passing distance, driver attention, and available insurance.
Right-Hook & Left-Cross Crashes
Turning vehicles crossing a cyclist’s path at intersections, driveways, and business entrances.
Dooring Incidents
Drivers or passengers opening a vehicle door into a cyclist’s travel path without adequate care.
Unsafe Passing
Sideswipe and overtaking collisions involving insufficient space, speed, or failure to account for the cyclist.
Intersection Collisions
Crashes involving signals, stop signs, right-of-way disputes, visibility, and simultaneous movements.
Road Defects & Construction
Incidents involving potholes, debris, unsafe work zones, drainage features, or other dangerous surface conditions.
Hit-and-Run & Uninsured Drivers
Claims requiring prompt evidence searches and review of potentially available uninsured-motorist coverage.
How We Build a Bicycle Accident Claim
- Preserve the bicycle, helmet, clothing, lights, onboard video, route data, and damaged property
- Document bike lanes, traffic controls, surface conditions, sight lines, impact points, and vehicle damage
- Locate surveillance, dashcam, doorbell, traffic-camera, and witness evidence
- Review driver distraction, turns, passing distance, door opening, right-of-way, and roadway conditions
- Identify the driver, vehicle owner, employer, property owner, public entity, and available coverage
- Document medical care, lost income, future needs, mobility limits, and other losses
Losses a Claim May Address
A bicycle accident claim may address medical expenses, future treatment, rehabilitation, lost income, reduced earning ability, pain and emotional distress, scarring, bicycle and equipment damage, and other crash-related losses.
The bike may be replaceable; the interruption to life may not be.
We document how the injuries affect work, transportation, exercise, family responsibilities, sleep, independence, and the activities that mattered before the collision.
Steps That Can Protect Your Health and Claim
- Get appropriate medical care. Head, orthopedic, spinal, and soft-tissue injuries may not be fully apparent at the scene.
- Keep the bicycle and gear. Avoid repairs or disposal until the need for photographs or inspection has been considered.
- Save digital and scene evidence. Preserve route data, camera footage, photos, reports, witness contacts, and the exact crash location.
- Report a hit-and-run promptly. Plate fragments, descriptions, witnesses, and nearby video can be time-sensitive.
- Get early advice about a road-defect claim. Claims involving public property can have special procedures and short deadlines.
Questions Clients Often Ask
Can I have a claim if there was no bike lane?
The absence of a bike lane does not automatically decide fault. The analysis may involve roadway rules, bicycle position, passing distance, driver attention, turns, traffic controls, and visibility.
What if I was not wearing a helmet?
Helmet use does not determine who caused the collision. An insurer may argue about whether it affected a particular head injury, but the issue depends on medical and crash evidence. Other injuries may be unrelated to helmet use.
Who may be responsible for a dooring crash?
Depending on the facts, responsibility may involve the person who opened the door, a driver, vehicle owner, employer, or another party. Photographs, vehicle position, witness accounts, and nearby video can be important.
What if a pothole or road defect caused the crash?
A claim may require investigation of who owned or controlled the property, notice of the condition, maintenance history, and whether a government-claim procedure applies. Deadlines can be much shorter than expected.
What if the driver fled?
Report the collision promptly and preserve descriptions, plate information, witnesses, and nearby video. Depending on the facts and policy, uninsured-motorist coverage may be available through an automobile policy.
How much does it cost to hire the firm?
The initial bicycle accident consultation is free. If we accept the matter on a contingency-fee basis, attorney fees depend on a recovery. The written agreement explains the terms before representation begins.
Bicycle accident counsel near you
Metropolis Law Group is based in Upland and evaluates bicycle injury claims for eligible clients in Upland, Rancho Cucamonga, Ontario, Fontana, and surrounding Inland Empire communities.
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