You may remember the sound before the impact. A driver moving far too fast closed the gap before you could react, and a high-speed crash leaves injuries an ordinary fender bender never would. Our Arvada car accident lawyers treat speed as the whole story and prove it with data, not argument.
Excessive speed both worsens your injuries and can raise the damages available to you, and Boesen Law builds the case to capture both. The consultation is free and in person, and there is no attorney fee unless we recover compensation for you.
Reach out to our law firm for a no-cost, no-obligation consultation today. Call our personal injury lawyers in the state of Colorado at (303) 999-9999 or contact us online.
How an Arvada High-Speed Accident Lawyer Can Support Your Case
Speed leaves a physical record, in the vehicles, on the road, and inside the cars’ own computers. Your high-speed accident lawyer’s work is to capture that record before it is repaired away.
- Download the black box data. We pull the event data recorder from both vehicles to capture pre-impact speed, throttle, and braking, which often shows the other driver barely slowed.
- Reconstruct the crash from the physical evidence. We use skid marks, crush depth, and final resting positions, with help from reconstruction experts, to calculate impact speed.
- Secure the speed witnesses and cameras. We locate drivers, residents, and businesses along the corridor whose accounts or footage confirm how fast the vehicle was moving.
- Quantify catastrophic injuries. We bring in medical and life-care experts to value the long-term consequences that high-energy crashes so often cause.
- Develop the case for heightened damages. Where speed was extreme or paired with racing, we build the record needed to seek exemplary damages.
- Take over the insurance fight. We manage every adjuster contact and prepare the file for trial so the carrier negotiates seriously.
Boesen Law has handled the most severe crashes on Front Range highways and the catastrophic injuries they leave behind, our attorneys can be reached at any time of the day or night, and we are happy to discuss results from cases that began with injuries as serious as yours.
What Colorado Law Says About Speeding and Excessive-Speed Crashes
Colorado does not set a single rigid speed limit for every situation. The state’s basic speed rule requires drivers to travel at a speed that is reasonable and prudent for the actual conditions, which means a driver can be at fault for going too fast even when they were under the posted limit during rain, ice, or heavy traffic. A driver who exceeds a posted limit, or who ignores conditions on a snow-slick stretch of Indiana Street, has breached the duty of care, and that breach is the foundation of your claim.
Speed also changes the legal stakes. When a driver travels at an extreme rate, weaves through traffic, or takes part in racing, that conduct can move beyond simple negligence into the willful and wanton category that supports exemplary damages under C.R.S. § 13-21-102. Insurers know this, which is exactly why they resist conceding how fast their driver was going. Our job is to prove the number and let it carry the weight it should. If you are not sure whether speed played the role you suspect, contact Boesen Law for a free consultation and we will look at the evidence.
Where High-Speed Crashes Happen in Arvada
Speed-related crashes cluster in predictable places around Arvada, and the location shapes both the mechanism and the evidence we look for.
Interstate and highway corridors
On I-70 and the connecting ramps, closing speeds are highest and the consequences most severe. Merge points and sudden slowdowns turn a speeding vehicle into a missile, and event data recorders become the most reliable witness to what happened.
Wide arterials and signal-controlled intersections
Roads like Wadsworth Boulevard and 80th Avenue carry fast-moving traffic through signalized intersections. A driver who races a yellow light or speeds toward a turning vehicle creates the violent T-bone and angle crashes that cause the worst injuries.
Residential cut-throughs and street takeovers
Drivers using neighborhood streets near Ward Road as a high-speed shortcut, or taking part in informal racing, bring highway speeds into areas full of pedestrians and cross traffic. These cases often involve clear evidence of reckless conduct.
A speeding driver who hurt you in any of these settings left a trail, and Boesen Law can help you preserve it before the vehicles are gone and the footage is overwritten.
Injuries Caused by High-Speed Crashes in Arvada
Because the energy in a crash rises sharply with speed, high-speed collisions produce some of the most serious injuries we handle. Clients commonly face:
- Traumatic brain injuries, from concussions to severe, life-changing damage that affects cognition and behavior.
- Spinal cord injuries and paralysis, when the force of impact damages the cord or vertebrae.
- Multiple fractures and crush injuries to the limbs, pelvis, and chest that require surgery and long rehabilitation.
- Internal organ damage and hemorrhage demanding emergency intervention.
- Amputations and permanent disfigurement in the most violent impacts.
- Wrongful death, when a high-speed crash takes a life and leaves a family to pursue a wrongful death claim.
These are injuries with lifelong consequences, and valuing them takes more than a stack of bills. Your high-speed accident lawyer works with treating doctors, life-care planners, and economists so the full future cost is on the table from the start.
Compensation Available After a High-Speed Crash in Arvada
High-speed crashes tend to generate the largest losses, because catastrophic injuries carry costs that stretch across a lifetime. We build each category to capture that full picture.
- Economic damages. Past and projected medical care, surgeries, rehabilitation, in-home assistance, assistive equipment, home and vehicle modifications, lost wages, and diminished earning capacity.
- Non-economic damages. Pain, loss of independence, emotional suffering, and the day-to-day toll on you and your family, limited by Colorado’s statutory cap, with a higher ceiling reserved for serious physical impairment.
- Punitive damages. Available when speed was extreme or tied to racing, to hold the driver accountable for conduct that went well beyond an honest mistake.
- Future care and life-care costs. Long-term attendant care, repeat procedures, and ongoing therapy modeled by qualified experts.
Boesen Law has won hundreds of millions for injured Coloradans precisely by refusing to let a carrier set the value of a catastrophic claim. A free consultation is the place to discuss the damages your specific crash may support.
Do You Have an Arvada High-Speed Crash Claim?
Stephen A. Justino, who has spent thirty-two years handling severe car, truck, and motorcycle crashes and the catastrophic injuries they cause, notes:
*”A high-speed case lives or dies on one figure: how fast the other car was actually moving. I stopped trusting a driver’s estimate long ago, because the black box, the crush damage, and the skid marks will tell me the truth instead. Prove the speed and the rest of the case falls into place, since the same force that crushed your car is what keeps you in treatment for years. My whole focus is making sure the settlement answers for a lifetime, not for one bad afternoon.”*
The coverage in a catastrophic crash is rarely a single policy. We pursue the at-fault driver’s liability limits, any employer or commercial coverage, and your own underinsured motorist protection, stacking everything available so the recovery matches the scale of the harm.
What Cases Like Yours Have Recovered
Boesen Law’s results in serious-impact crashes include a $525,000 recovery for a client broadsided when a driver ran a red light, which left a concussion and lasting whiplash and body pain, and a $475,000 result for a client rear-ended in a crash that aggravated an earlier spinal condition to the point of surgery. Our full case results reflect the work that goes into claims like these.
If a speeding driver caused you or a loved one serious harm in Arvada, we will give you an honest read on where your case stands.
Contact an Arvada High-Speed Accident Lawyer at Boesen Law
A high-speed crash can change a life in a few seconds and leave years of recovery behind it. When the injuries are this serious, the difference between an adequate settlement and a full one comes down to how hard the speed and the future costs are proven. Boesen Law brings the resources, the experts, and the trial readiness that these cases demand, and your recovery is our priority.
Reach Contact Boesen Law for a free, in-person consultation. A catastrophic Arvada claim is litigated in the Jefferson County District Court, and we handle each step. We answer calls day and night, we come to you at home or at the hospital when injuries make travel hard, and there is no attorney fee unless we recover compensation for you.
FAQs About Arvada High-Speed Accidents
How does speed change the value of my Arvada crash claim?
Speed affects value in two ways. It increases the severity of injuries, which raises the medical, wage, and future-care components of your damages, and extreme speed can support punitive damages that an ordinary crash would not. Proving how fast the other driver was traveling, through data and reconstruction, is often what unlocks the full value of the claim.
How do you prove how fast the other driver was going?
We rely on the event data recorder inside the vehicles, physical evidence such as skid marks and crush damage, reconstruction analysis, and any witness or camera footage from the corridor. Together these sources can establish impact speed with far more precision than a driver’s self-serving estimate.
Can a driver be at fault for speeding even if they were under the limit?
Yes. Colorado’s basic speed rule requires a speed that is reasonable and prudent for conditions. A driver going under the posted limit can still be at fault if that speed was unsafe for rain, ice, traffic, or visibility at the time of the crash.
How long do I have to file a high-speed crash claim in Colorado?
The deadline to file most motor vehicle injury claims is three years from the date of the crash under C.R.S. § 13-80-101, though catastrophic cases involve evidence that should be preserved immediately. Colorado’s personal injury time limits make early action especially important in a catastrophic case, where proof must be preserved fast.
What if my injuries are catastrophic and I cannot work again?
When injuries end or limit your ability to work, your claim should include lost earning capacity and the full cost of future care, not just current bills. We bring in vocational and economic experts and life-care planners to project those long-term losses so the settlement reflects a lifetime, not a moment.
Reach out to our law firm for a no-cost, no-obligation consultation today. Call our personal injury lawyers in the state of Colorado at (303) 999-9999 or contact us online.
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