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Process Server and Investigation
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Automobile accidents are an extremely unfortunate part of owning vehicles. They can happen for a variety of reasons, and attorneys, insurance companies, and individuals hire our car accident private detectives to help find out what caused the accidents and more. There are many components to motorcycle accident private investigations, which include a variety of complex concomitant possibilities to discern, analyze, and evaluate. Part of this includes collision reports and license plate checks, and our PIs will discuss the importance of these as well.
There are a variety of reasons why vehicle accidents occur. From accidental causes to intentional ones, the vehicle accident private investigations our PIs have conducted over the years have included, but have never been limited to, the following:
Whether someone becomes tired and falls asleep at the wheel, checks a text message while driving, or has ADHD, gets distracted, and fails to see a car stop, human beings make errors. Even AI-driven vehicles are currently imperfect, and humans are even more so. Thus, many car crashes occur due to no intentional fault. Of course, many jurisdictions now consider texting while driving as a criminal act, but we will discuss that later.
Sometimes motorcycles, trucks, and cars break down in the middle of a drive. Whether the breaks go out or the tires blow out after hitting a nail, machines break down. It happens, and sometimes it causes auto wrecks that can take the lives of the drivers and pedestrians.
Sometimes people commit criminal acts, such as drunk driving, fleeing a bank robbery, or attempting to evade police. These are just a few of the many types of accidents motivated by criminal behavior that can help cause vehicle accidents. Whenever a criminal causes an automobile accident on purpose and/or in the commission of a crime, it rarely, if ever, bodes well for the perpetrator in civil and criminal courts.
Bad weather, such as high winds, hail, tornadoes, snow, ice, and heavy rain can all help cause accidents. Indeed, many drivers in Oklahoma do not even know how to drive in inclement weather like snow and ice. Thus, many accidents occur during these times. This is especially true, because they are not used to it like those in states like Alaska are, and many local governments may lack resources to clear roads. Also, drivers in states like Oklahoma are less likely to buy vehicles that are more favorable to snow and ice like those in Alaska might. Thus, our motorcycle accident private detective helps investigate many such weather-related accidents.
Automobile collision reports are valuable pieces of information. Insurance companies, accident attorneys, and courts all value their input. This is because law enforcement officers give their professional assessments of what happened during a car, truck, or motorcycle crash. Whether these police and state troopers assessed the situation properly and made the right call is often debated in court, unless there is significant evidence to help counter their statements in the collision reports, then insurance companies, auto accident lawyers, judges, and juries tend to believe what they say.
Many of our private investigation agency’s auto accident clients include insurance companies that might end up on the financial hook with liability for the associated costs of the accidents. Vehicle accident injury attorneys in Oklahoma, who hope to profit from and help their clients receive their just financial and medical compensation, also hired our firm to help them find out how the accident occurred and to perform other tasks that benefit their clients. Indeed, there are many components to doing this job correctly that require the utmost skill, training, and expertise.
Obtaining collision reports is a vital component to these types of truck accident investigations. This involves going to a governmental agency called Service Oklahoma and bringing them a collision request form. Private investigation agencies get special access to automobile accident information that the public cannot access, so many law firms and other private detective agencies hire us to retrieve these collision reports for attorneys and insurance companies.
When going to Service Oklahoma with the form, it will cost ten dollars for a certified copy and about seven dollars for a non-certified copy of the collision report. As you can see from the link, the collision report will list the names and information of the parties involved in the accident, whether the law enforcement officer issued any citations, whether casualties occurred, and the police officer’s assessment of what occurred. Having an accurate certified copy of collision reports is something the legal professionals at our private investigation agency can help our legal clients with.
We receive tons of requests for license plate checks to find out information about the owners of vehicles from a wide variety of private investigation clients and even those our PI agency does process serving for. Three of the most common types of investigations that most commonly require license plate checks include, but are not limited to, the following:
One or more of the parents, grandparents, and/or guardians of children hire a private investigator at our PI agency in Oklahoma City to help determine the owners of vehicles in question. The owners of these cars, trucks, and motorcycles are often lovers, drug dealers, or friends of one of the caretakers of the child or kids. By knowing the identity of the owner(s) of the vehicles in question, our legal firm can help determine whether someone who is going around the children is a drug dealer, sex offender, felon, or other adult prohibited from having overnight romantic stays around the child(ren) in question.
Once our child custody private detectives have assisted our clients with identifying the individual(s) in question, then they often have us do skip tracing to confirm the person of interest’s (POI’s) most current addresses and phone numbers. This is because Oklahoma law now allows for license plate renewals to occur every two years. Thus, the address that shows up on a license plate check might have changed since the owner last registered the vehicle. Indeed, some individuals list the wrong home address when registering or re-registering their vehicles, to avoid location detection by law enforcement officers and process servers. Thus, our skip trace service can prove to be beneficial for successful child custody private investigations.
Once we have determined the identity of the POIs, our private investigation agency in Edmond, OK can then run nationwide civil background checks, national criminal background checks, and social media scans to help better understand the type of individual the owner of the vehicle is. If they have a bad criminal history or serious issues with money or other concerns, then our child custody private investigator can help find out this important information.
When a spouse or romantic partner has concerns about cheating in a relationship, they often ask for license plate private investigations to find out who the mistress or “other man” is. Some lovers even cheat with nonbinary romantic partners, and a license plate check can help identify the owner of a vehicle . From there, as with child custody investigations, our legal team can then do the same digital private investigations to find out more information about the POI.
License plate investigations are also crucial to a proper and thorough look into car accident cases. This is especially true with hit-and-run investigations, because perpetrators of auto accidents in these cases do not stick around for the consequences. In doing so, they not only face civil liability for the property damage and medical bills, but they would face criminal charges for leaving the scene of an accident as well – especially if an injury occurred.
By securing the vehicle information, such as the make, model, and license plate number, from the not-at-fault party, a witness to the accident, and/or CCTV footage, our private eyes can help determine the identity of the fleeing party. With this information in hand, auto insurance companies and law firms alike can help hold the perpetrators civilly liable. Meanwhile, police can locate and arrest the guilty party for fleeing the scene of an accident, even drunk driving, and even murder charges if someone dies because of the crash, as appropriate.
Some licensed private investigators utilize a skip trace service for their license plate private investigations. Indeed, some databases hold vast amounts of nationwide data and make such searches quick and painless. This method works well for some PIs and can be quick and easy if the data is available on the database, but it does not work for all states and sometimes is inaccurate. Our legal firm sometimes uses this method, but we also have one that works well for multiple states that we prefer to use when possible.
Our Oklahoma private investigation takes a different approach on Oklahoma license plates though, mostly opting to go directly to the tag agency or Service Oklahoma whenever possible. We bring a special form that grants us access to the license plate holder’s information, because our legal team has the proper private investigation agency and individual PI licenses which grant them access. Thus, our firm can access license plate information for individuals, law firms, and insurance companies who are our clients.
Aside from conducting license plate investigations and automobile collision reports, doing social media scans, nationwide civil and criminal background checks, and skip tracing like we discussed above, there are other techniques our legal team has that can help with automobile accidents. These methods include, but are not limited to, the following:
After an automobile accident, especially one with injuries, it is vital to gather all witness statements and video footage cameras that can help shed light on what occurred. When CCTV footage is available somewhere, our PIs will go out, and we will try to find it. Indeed, our team will ask for copies of the video footage from residential areas and businesses, and if they refuse to provide recordings of the accident, we will alert our clients. Since our firm’s clients in these cases are often personal injury lawyers in Oklahoma City and insurance companies who stand to make and lose large sums of money respectively, they can instantly send subpoenas to the residential and business owners to force them to provide it.
In the chaos that ensues before, during, and after a car or truck crash, law enforcement officers, perpetrators, and victims of motorcycle accidents alike often forget to secure the names, contact information, and statements from witnesses to the accident. Even if they do and the law enforcement officer (LEO) properly documents it in an official accident/collision report, the witnesses may require follow-up interviews, or the attorneys or insurance companies may need to subpoena them to court to testify.
When our legal clients need to locate and/or interview witnesses to truck and other auto accidents in Oklahoma, they locate a private detective to help both locate and interview witnesses. This is an invaluable legal service that our legal professionals are extremely adept at performing. Law firms and insurance companies alike count on our experience, dedication, and effectiveness in completing these tasks quickly and effectively.
Our motorcycle crash private detectives can also help insurance companies and personal injury lawyers in OKC alike reconstruct the scenes of auto accidents. Whether digitally or at the actual scene of the crash site, we can offer multiple options to help provide an effective, clear visual depiction of the scene of the crash for insurance companies, lawyers, judges, and juries. Our clients find this to be an extremely invaluable legal service that can help them earn/win their civil damages claims or save money by avoiding liability.
When deployed quickly, our personal injury private investigator can take videos and photos of the crash site/scene. Our legal pros are adept at getting footage from all sides, angles, and from different distances. Time is of the essence in these types of cases, and this works most effectively for people who already know an attorney for auto accidents and immediately contact the individual right after the accident. That way the lawyer can immediately deploy an investigator to the scene of the auto accident to help collect and preserve the needed crash site data.
Since our motorcycle accident detectives have worked in this field for so many years, they have become remarkably familiar with many attorneys who oversee automobile accidents, as well as physical therapists, orthopedic specialists, and chiropractors. Indeed, the owners of our private investigation agency in Edmond have already vetted these medical and legal professionals, because they have both investigated and been involved in many car accidents over the years. Thus, they know all too well which personal injury lawyers and doctors to avoid, and which will help win the cases and provide the best possible medical care.
We have already discussed how our firm can help retrieve the information on the owners of license plates in car crashes and auto collision reports, but our private detectives can do more than that! We can also go to courthouses, police departments, medical offices, and elsewhere to file and retrieve documents. This is an extremely useful legal service for law firms, insurance companies, and even individuals who need us to complete this service.
When you need to find perpetrators of car crashes and/or witnesses to vehicle accidents and skip traces and license plate checks do not work, there are other options and tricks up our sleeves. Our private eyes can also check with post offices and ask them to provide us with the physical addresses associated with a person’s P.O. box. This is one useful way to help find people who try to hide behind what they falsely think is the safety of a P.O. box.
Armed with this information, our process serving team can go try to serve defendants in car accident cases with lawsuit papers. We can also show up at witnesses’ homes once we locate their residence from the post office’s post office box check. Without these home addresses, civil lawsuits can stall or even fail, because the best lawyers and insurance companies need to know how to locate these missing people.
This is another tactic our Oklahoma private investigators can use to find missing people. Once again, when skip traces and license plate checks fail to show the best address and there is no post office box to glean a physical address from, then a forwarding mail check might help with an accident investigation. This only works well if the individual files a forwarding mail request with the USPS, and it can help provide a newer address faster than a skip trace and license plate check. However, many people do not file these, especially if they do not want anyone to find them. So, they are handy but not always available.
As you can clearly see, our private investigation agency in Muskogee has many methods to help attorneys and insurance companies when vehicle accidents occur. Collision report retrieval and license plate private investigations are integral parts of these types of legal cases, but as noted above, these are hardly the only services we offer. If you are a personal injury lawyer, insurance company, or individual who has become involved in truck, car, or motorcycle accidents in some way and require our legal services, please feel free to reach out to us for more information.
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