Car Accidents in Florence, AL

The Florence Police Department for city streets, the Lauderdale County Sheriff's Office for county roads, and Alabama State Troopers for US-72 and US-43 outside the city. If the wreck was at the south end of a river bridge, it may be a Colbert County or Sheffield report instead. Alabama crash reports generally come through a state portal a few days out. Note the report number at the scene.

Lauderdale County Circuit Court, in Florence, the county seat. The Shoals spans two counties though, so a crash in Muscle Shoals, Sheffield, or Tuscumbia would point to Colbert County's circuit court instead, and that is decided by where the crash happened rather than where anyone lives. An independent, licensed Alabama attorney sorts it out and files. We are not a law firm and can do neither.

The law is the same across the state. Around campus you are dealing with more people on foot, more short trips, and more drivers who are new in town and unsure of the streets. A pedestrian or cyclist claim runs hard into Alabama's contributory-negligence rule, because an insurer only has to convince someone that you stepped off a curb at the wrong moment. Then it is over.

In Alabama, the deadline is generally 2 years from the date of the accident. 2 years personal injury; wrongful death 2 years (measured from death). Deadlines are strict — the sooner you act, the more options you have.