El Paso Car Accident Lawyer

Injured on I-10, Loop 375, or anywhere in El Paso? We fight for maximum compensation. No fees unless we win.

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Car accidents in El Paso happen every day — on I-10, the ASARCO freeway, Loop 375, and throughout the city's dense urban streets. When a negligent driver causes a crash, victims are left with medical bills, lost income, and serious pain. Patterson Law Group fights to make you whole.

We handle all types of car accident cases in El Paso: rear-end collisions, T-bone accidents at intersections, head-on crashes, distracted driving, DUI accidents, and hit-and-run cases. We investigate every case thoroughly, deal with the insurance companies for you, and fight for every dollar you deserve.

Where Car Accidents Happen in El Paso

El Paso's crashes cluster on a handful of corridors that carry far more traffic than they were built for. If your wreck happened on one of these roads, we've handled cases there before:

•Interstate 10. The spine of the city, running from the Westside through Downtown out to the far East Side. The stretch through the Spaghetti Bowl interchange and the Gateway Boulevard frontage roads on either side produces constant rear-end and merging collisions — worst at rush hour and during monsoon-season downpours.
•Loop 375 (Border Highway / Transmountain). High speeds on the Border Highway along the river and the steep grades over Transmountain Road make for severe, high-energy crashes and rollovers.
•US-54 (Patriot Freeway). The main north-south route connecting Downtown to Fort Bliss and the Northeast. Heavy military commuter traffic and tight interchanges drive a steady stream of intersection and lane-change wrecks.
•Mesa Street. The Westside's busiest arterial — retail, UTEP traffic, and constant turning movements make it a classic setting for left-turn and intersection T-bone collisions.
•Zaragoza Road. The East Side's commercial backbone near the Zaragoza port of entry, with heavy commercial-truck and cross-border traffic feeding I-10 and Loop 375.
•Fort Bliss commuter traffic. Shift changes at one of the Army's largest installations surge tens of thousands of vehicles onto US-54, Airport Road, and the Northeast arterials at predictable hours — and the crash data follows.

We pull the El Paso Police Department CR-3 crash report, TxDOT freeway-camera footage, and any nearby business security video before it's overwritten — usually within days of the crash.

Steps to Take After a Car Accident in El Paso

1.Get medical attention immediately — even if you feel okay. Adrenaline masks pain. Documented medical treatment is critical to your claim.
2.Call the police — get an accident report number. Don't leave the scene without one.
3.Document everything — photos of vehicles, injuries, road conditions, and any witnesses.
4.Don't talk to the other driver's insurance — call us first. Recorded statements can hurt your case.
5.Call Patterson Law Group — we start working immediately to preserve evidence and build your case.

What Your Case May Be Worth

No honest lawyer can put a number on your case before reviewing the records. The value of an El Paso car accident claim turns on the severity of the injuries, the insurance available, the strength of liability, and how well the losses are documented. The categories that drive value include:

✓Medical expenses, paid or incurred. Emergency care, surgery, imaging, physical therapy, and future treatment — valued at the amounts actually paid or incurred under §41.0105, not the hospital's sticker price.

✓Lost wages and lost earning capacity. The income you missed while you recovered, plus the future earnings you lose if the injury limits the work you can do going forward.

✓Physical impairment and disfigurement. The lasting effect of the injury on your body and your daily life — separate from medical bills, and often the largest part of a serious case.

✓Pain, suffering, and mental anguish. The physical pain and the emotional toll, both during recovery and into the future.

We give you an honest valuation after we review the medical records and the available coverage — not an inflated number to sign you up, and not the lowball the insurance company opens with.

Texas Car Accident Laws That Affect Your El Paso Claim

Two-year deadline (§16.003). Texas Civil Practice & Remedies Code §16.003 gives you two years from the date of the crash to file suit. Government defendants — the City of El Paso, El Paso County, Sun Metro, or TxDOT — can trigger Texas Tort Claims Act notice deadlines as short as six months. The sooner we start, the more evidence survives.

51% modified comparative fault (§33.001). Texas is a fault state, and it follows a modified comparative-fault rule with a 51% bar: you can recover as long as you are 50% or less at fault, but your damages are reduced by your share of the blame. Insurance companies push fault onto injured drivers to cut what they pay — we counter with the crash report's contributing-factor codes, scene reconstruction, and vehicle data.

Minimum liability limits — 30/60/25. Texas requires drivers to carry at least $30,000 per injured person, $60,000 per accident, and $25,000 for property damage. Those minimums rarely cover a serious injury, which is why we look past the at-fault driver's policy to your UM/UIM coverage, an employer's policy when the driver was working, and any other available source of recovery.

Paid or incurred medical bills (§41.0105). Texas limits medical-bill recovery to the amounts actually paid or incurred — not the full price billed by the hospital. How those bills are documented changes what you can put in front of a jury, so we handle the records carefully from the start.

Common Questions from El Paso Car Accident Clients

Is it worth getting an attorney after a car accident in El Paso?

If you were hurt, yes. Insurance adjusters settle unrepresented El Paso claims for a fraction of what the same injuries are worth with a lawyer on the file. We handle the carrier, document the paid-or-incurred medical bills, and build the case for trial so the offer reflects what you actually lost. The consultation is free and you pay nothing unless we recover for you — so there's no downside to finding out what your claim is worth.

How much does a car accident lawyer cost in Texas?

Nothing up front. We take El Paso car accident cases on contingency — you pay no attorney fees unless we win money for you. Our fee comes out of the recovery, not your pocket, and we advance the investigation, expert, and litigation costs. If we don't recover, you owe us no fee. That's the no-win-no-fee promise, in writing.

How long do I have to file a car accident claim in Texas?

Two years from the date of the crash, under Texas Civil Practice & Remedies Code §16.003. Miss that deadline and the court will almost always throw the case out, no matter how badly you were hurt. Claims against the City of El Paso, El Paso County, Sun Metro, or another governmental entity can carry Texas Tort Claims Act notice deadlines as short as six months — so don't wait to call.

What if the other driver was uninsured?

Texas drivers are required to carry liability insurance, but a large share on El Paso roads don't. If the at-fault driver had no coverage or not enough, your own Uninsured/Underinsured Motorist (UM/UIM) coverage steps in to pay for your injuries. Texas insurers must offer UM/UIM unless you rejected it in writing — many El Paso drivers carry it without realizing it. We map every available policy and pursue them in the right order.

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Legally reviewed by Travis Patterson, Managing Partner of Patterson Law Group.