Converse · Pedestrian Accident
Converse Pedestrian Accident Lawyer
A pedestrian or bicycle accident claim in Converse arises when a motor vehicle strikes a person on foot or on a bicycle on one of the city's roads: FM-78, the I-10 frontage, Loop 1604, or a school-zone corridor near Wagner High School or the Old Seguin Road campuses. Texas law gives pedestrians the right of way in marked crosswalks and requires drivers to exercise due care for anyone on foot under Tex. Transp. Code Ch. 552. Because neither a pedestrian nor a cyclist has any structural protection from impact, injuries are typically catastrophic even at moderate speeds. Cases are filed in Bexar County district court, and the two-year limitations period under § 16.003 applies alongside the same modified comparative-fault framework governing all Texas injury cases.
Why Converse cases are different
Converse's pedestrian and cyclist risk concentrates where its growth outran its infrastructure: FM-78's new driveway-lined commercial frontage, the school zones around Wagner High School and the Old Seguin Road elementary campuses, and Loop 1604 intersections built for cars, not people on foot.
School zones and the FM-78 commercial frontage
The Judson Independent School District runs several campuses inside Converse and along FM-78, and school-zone traffic at Wagner High School and the elementary campuses near Old Seguin Road produces sharp crash spikes around morning drop-off and afternoon bell times, exactly when children are crossing. Reduced school-zone speed limits during posted hours sharpen the right-of-way and comparative-fault analysis in any civil case, because a driver exceeding the posted school-zone limit at a crossing carries a heavy fault burden. Along FM-78 itself, the decade of commercial development added retail strip centers and fast-food driveways to a road built for through-movement, so a pedestrian crossing to or from a strip-center parking lot now navigates conflict points the original road never had. Driver inattention, the same coffee-in-the-cup-holder distraction that drives the rear-end cases, turns lethal when the person in the path is on foot.
Right-of-way, driver inattention, and severe injuries
Texas law gives pedestrians the right of way in marked crosswalks and at intersections, and requires drivers to exercise due care for anyone on foot regardless of where they cross. In a Converse case the proof problem is establishing the driver's inattention, because a pedestrian or cyclist rarely walks away with the documentation a car driver has. We move quickly to preserve the Converse Police crash report and the responding officer's body-cam, and to send preservation letters to the surveillance-equipped commercial neighbors along FM-78 before footage overwrites in one to two weeks. School-zone signal-phase and flasher-timing records, maintained by the City of Converse and TxDOT, are recoverable for a limited period and can establish whether the zone was active at the moment of impact. Because a struck pedestrian or cyclist often sustains catastrophic injury, the medical and life-care build runs in parallel with the liability work.
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- It matters a great deal. Reduced school-zone speed limits during posted hours affect both the driver's citation and the comparative-fault analysis in a civil case. Signal-phase and flasher-timing records for the school-zone equipment near Wagner High School and the Old Seguin Road campuses are maintained by the City of Converse and TxDOT and are recoverable for a limited time, so we move early to confirm the zone was active at impact.
- Texas requires drivers to yield to pedestrians in crosswalks and to use due care for anyone on foot. FM-78's commercial driveways create constant conflict points, and driver inattention is the usual cause. Because you likely have less documentation than the driver, we preserve the crash report, officer body-cam, and surveillance from nearby commercial properties quickly, before the footage overwrites.
- Time-sensitive video and records. Surveillance from FM-78 retail and fast-food properties typically overwrites within one to two weeks, so a preservation letter goes out immediately. We also secure the Converse Police crash report and the responding officer's body-cam, which can capture admissions, and any school-zone signal timing if the crash occurred near a Judson ISD campus during posted hours.
- Possibly. Texas modified comparative fault under Chapter 33 allows recovery as long as your share of fault does not exceed 50%. A pedestrian crossing outside a marked crosswalk may be assigned some percentage of fault, but that does not automatically bar the claim. The key is whether the driver still had the ability to see you and avoid the impact, and we build the evidence around that question.
- The driver is liable for failing to pass the cyclist safely, and the delivery company may also be liable under respondeat superior if the driver was making a company delivery at the time. Texas Transportation Code § 545.418 prohibits dooring a cyclist, and a right-side squeeze or driveway pull-out carries similar analysis. We identify both the driver and employer at intake and preserve surveillance from the commercial corridor before the overwrite window closes.
- Two years from the date of injury under Tex. Civ. Prac. & Rem. Code § 16.003. If the victim is a minor, the limitations period is tolled until age 18. If a government entity is involved, such as the City of Converse or a Judson ISD vehicle, the Texas Tort Claims Act requires written pre-suit notice within six months, which is the deadline that matters most in those cases. We screen for governmental defendants at intake.
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Our office is in downtown Austin; we represent Converse-area clients statewide and travel to Converse for case-specific needs (scene visits, medical-records consultations, court appearances). Home and hospital visits when injuries make travel difficult.
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