Arizona · Personal injury · Trial-ready representation
Phoenix has one of the highest pedestrian fatality rates in the country. Big Dog Law represents Phoenix pedestrians struck by drivers — at intersections, in crosswalks, and on the city's wide arterials.
Phoenix consistently ranks among the most dangerous large U.S. cities for pedestrians. The reasons are structural — wide arterials engineered for high-speed driving, long distances between marked crossings, weak street lighting in many corridors, and a chronic problem with right-turn and left-turn drivers who don’t look. The legal cases that come out of these crashes turn on physics, sight-lines, and the city’s own engineering records. We build Phoenix pedestrian cases against the right defendants — including, sometimes, the public entity that designed the road.
Phoenix pedestrian basics
Wide, fast arterials
Camelback, Bell, Indian School, McDowell, 7th Street, Bethany Home — many Phoenix arterials operate at near-freeway speeds with long gaps between crosswalks.
Right-on-red strikes
Drivers turning right on red without looking left are a chronic source of pedestrian injuries — particularly in commercial corridors.
Left-turn-across-pedestrian crashes
Left-turning drivers focused on oncoming traffic frequently fail to see a pedestrian completing the crosswalk.
Night and low-light strikes
Phoenix has many corridors with inadequate lighting; pedestrian fatality rates are correspondingly higher at night.
Driveway and parking-lot strikes
Backup and slow-speed strikes in commercial parking lots produce some of the most severe lower-extremity injuries we see.
Phoenix Police or DPS report
We obtain the report and review the officer's narrative, witness list, and any supplemental documentation.
Surveillance and dashcam footage
Phoenix arterial corridors have dense commercial coverage — but most footage is overwritten in 14 to 30 days.
Engineering and roadway-design records
When sight-lines, signal timing, or signage may have contributed, public-entity records become critical.
Vehicle event-data-recorder downloads
Speed, brake input, and steering input in the seconds before impact.
Treatment continuity
Consistent care from a Phoenix-area provider with clear causation language in the chart.
Pedestrian struck in Phoenix?
Free, confidential consultation. No fee unless we recover.
Phoenix, AZ
Every consultation is free and confidential. No fee unless we recover compensation.
