Why are we having such a hard time getting a lawyer for our accident? NOT OUR...

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...FAULT!!!!!? ok, so here's the short story. We were driving home from work on a deserted country back road in the middle of nowhere. The car in front of us was going 10 miles UNDER the speed limit so we pass them, in a legal passing zone. We get pretty far ahead of him and then we look back and he is going about 100 to catch up with us. We see this and get a little freaked out so we speed up to try and avoid him. He just keeps coming faster and faster. We stop at the stop sign, turn. He blows through the stop sign almost hitting someone, There are cars coming up in front of us so we brake, pretty hard, but we were going fast. The guy behind us came barreling up going 90 and at the last second barely brakes and takes the whole left side of our car off and shoots us down a ravine, then he tries to flee, but his car only makes it about 1/4 mile. The cops come, (don't get me started on them) didn't put our statements down correctly. DIDN'T arrest the guy. Come to find out when we interview the cop later the guy told the cop "I was about to let a piece of Sh*t Kia pass an american made car" admited to chasing us and he got a way with a careless driving ticket (which he reduced in court) the insurance companies are battling saying no one is at fault and his insurance is only offering 50% because subrogation came back a wash. They say that because we were speeding, it was our fault. (speeding AWAY from him because we were terrified, did absolutely nothing wrong!) there were no houses around, no cell phone reception, we weren't about to stop and let him shoot us in the face! Now the law firm i've been talking to won't take our case. WTF are we supposed to do? i know have emergency room bills that are in collections!! BTW this happened 08/26/08.


Sorry so long, but i need help!
ok, so if someone is CHASING you and is so mad you don't know what they could do to you .... In the middle of nowhere with NO CELL reception, you should just let him confront you and possilby kill you and leave you in the middle of nowhere??!?!?! or do you speed up and try to get 2 miles to civilization and cell reception so you can call the cops??!?! I had 911 dialed in my phone ready to call as soon as i had service, we were 1/2 mile away from our turn. So if you're speeding and the person BEHIND you hits you, it's your fault because you were speeding? that makes no sense, how does My speeding affect the person behind me? not to the side of me, or in front of me...but BEHIND me!!!?!?!?!? we slowed way down and he came speeding up behind us and didn't stop until the last second, how is that our fault? How is it our fault he was going 100 mph and couldn't stop in time when the traffic in front of him was slowing down?
 
If you have insurance, drop the case.
If not, let´s say u were in fact speeding, you´d get a ticket, but he HIT YOU whether u were or not speeding, IT DOESNT MATTER it´s a complete different situation (speeding vs crash).
Second thoughts, take the deal, if you dont, you´ll might end up losing and with liver damage from the whole process.
 
With your long story about nothing, you asked why you can't get a lawyer to handle your case. Lawyers are in business. They have a profit motive. It could be that you will lose or that the damages (and thus their cut of the judgment) is too small, or that you are just a pain in the @ss. It could be that your story is not supported by the physical evidence, or that you are lying about some part of the story and thus the rest is suspect. I can only guess why a lawyer would not see a profit in handling your case. If you really want to know, ask someone who declines the case.
 
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