A Guide To Tampa Bay Football Stadium Parking Lot Injuries
Located in Tampa, Florida, the Raymond James Stadium typically host year-round events including professional football games, college football games, and family-oriented events like monster truck shows. At any given event, the stadium parking lot could include thousands of fans and hundreds of cars on the property.
Unfortunately, with so much traffic and congestion, accidents are bound to happen. If you've suffered an injury in the football stadium parking lot, then follow this guide to learn more about your options and legal steps taken to help with the situation. Having a knowledge of what to do before an accident happens can help you move forward with a personal injury case and ensure you receive compensation for damages.
Security Statements & Witnesses
Due to the large crowds and big events, football stadiums will often have excess amounts of security. Security officials may walk around parking lots, monitor areas in vehicles, and patrol the lots long after the event has ended. When an accident occurs, security guards will quickly arrive on the scene and call for extra help when needed.
The eyewitness account of the first reporting security guards will become a crucial element to your case. The security guard may write out a complete incident statement that details exactly what happened from their perspective. If you are a victim in the situation, then their statement could become crucial to your personal injury case.
Along with a statement from security guards, you are likely to have other witnesses on-hand who can provide detailed statements about the incident that occurred and the injuries you suffered. Witness statements could be collected by police officers on the scene or through interviews from your own personal injury attorneys.
The statements will often corroborate each other and help build a stronger case in your favor.
Security Footage
To help manage crowds and keep an eye on events like lines or tailgating, many stadiums will have a wide range of security cameras throughout their parking lots. When games get played at night, the lots may also include night vision cameras to properly capture details and information.
A lawyer can help obtain a full video of the security footage from when the incident occurred. Not only can a lawyer can access to the footage, but the high security concerns at a football game could provide you with multiple angles of the incident.
The video footage could showcase how another party is at fault for the injuries and help prove that any counter-claims they made about the incident were false. A personal injury attorney will know the best legal path forward to help obtain the footage and ensure you can use the footage within your case.
Delayed Medical Care
Due to the increased traffic on event days, you could suffer from delayed medical care due to an injury in the stadium parking lot. Delayed care could lead to worsened injuries or expanded stays at the hospital. The end result could lead to bigger hospital bills or the need for more medical care in the future.
For example, you could need more physical therapy sessions or special braces to help you heal through injuries. A lawyer will break down all of these elements as they build your case and seek compensation. You will want to ensure all the medical bills get covered so you do not have to pay out of pocket costs for an injury that was not your fault.
In some cases, a lawyer may wait a little bit to understand the full extent of your injuries and the possible future medical costs you will have to endure.
Quality of Life
An incident in a stadium parking lot could have a dramatic change on your plans for the day. If the incident occurred before the game, then you may have had to miss the game and gone to the hospital instead.
In the long run, a missed game may not seem like a lot, but the whole situation could impact your quality of life through emotional pain and suffering as well as the loss of money spent on your seats in the stadium.
A lawyer may seek compensation for the value of tickets you were unable to use. In some cases, you could have season tickets. The injuries you suffer may prevent you from using those season tickets. Not only do you lose the value of the tickets, but you lose the positive experience you had when attending the games.
For example, you may have attended tailgate parties for each game. You may have a specific group of friends you went to each game with. After your injuries, you may have a lot of stress and anxiety when attending future events at the stadium. The overall impact on your quality of life could become a cornerstone of your personal injury case.
For more information on personal injury cases, contact us at Jeeves Law Group, P.A. We serve the Tampa Bay area and take a detailed look into your incident and provide you with the best legal options to help move forward with your case.