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If you were hit while riding in Denver, the question usually comes up fast: how long do I actually have to file a claim? The short answer is that many bicycle accident cases in Colorado are governed by a three-year deadline when the crash involves a motor vehicle. That sounds simple, but real cases rarely stay simple for long. The right deadline can depend on who caused the crash, what kind of claim you are filing, whether a government entity was invo

A serious bicycle crash can change the shape of a life in a few seconds. One rider remembers a blur of asphalt, the sound of a driver saying, “I didn’t even see you,” and then weeks of surgeries, headaches, insurance calls, and missed work. That sequence is painfully common. The collision itself is violent, but the claim that follows can be just as disorienting, especially when the injuries are significant and the rider is expected to “move on” before th

A bicycle crash can leave a rider with far more than a bent wheel and a hospital bill. The real trouble often begins after the emergency room visit, when the insurance claim that should help stabilize life turns into a second fight. Adjusters stop returning calls. Liability becomes "unclear" even when a driver turned across a bike lane. Medical records are requested again and again. A reasonable settlement offer never arrives. In some cases, th

A bicycle crash caused by a road defect rarely looks dramatic at first glance. There is no speeding driver, no obvious red light violation, no easy villain standing on the curb. Instead, there is a broken edge of pavement, a drainage grate set at the wrong angle, a pothole deep enough to trap a front wheel, or a patch of asphalt that has crumbled where a cyclist has almost no room to recover. The result can be just as serious as a collision with a car.

A child’s bicycle crash can turn an ordinary afternoon into a blur of sirens, scans, phone calls, and questions nobody was prepared to answer. Parents usually focus, rightly, on medical care first. Then the practical problems arrive. Who pays the emergency room bill? What if the driver says your child darted into the street? What happens when the injury looks minor at first but gets worse a week later? In Denver, bicycle accident claims invo

A fatal bicycle collision changes a family in a single phone call. One minute someone is riding home from work, crossing an intersection near City Park, or heading west toward Sloan’s Lake. The next, a spouse is identifying clothing at a hospital, an adult child is answering questions from police, or parents are trying to understand how an ordinary trip on a bike turned into a death. When that death was caused by a driver, a dangerous road condition,

A bicycle crash can leave you with far more than road rash and a damaged frame. It can also leave you in the middle of a legal and insurance process that turns on one basic question: can you prove what happened to your body, when it happened, and how those injuries have changed your daily life? That proof does not begin when a lawsuit is filed. It begins at the curb, in the emergency room, at your kitchen table that night, and in the weeks that follow

A bicycle crash can look, at first glance, like a simple collision between a rider and a driver. Many are not that simple. In Denver, some of the hardest bicycle injury cases involve a street that was dangerous long before the crash happened. A faded bike lane, a drainage grate placed in the wrong direction, a pothole that sat unfilled for months, a signal that never gave cyclists a safe crossing window, loose gravel left after roadwork, a construction detour