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Vehicular assault cases often begin with a crash, an injury, and an allegation that alcohol, drugs, reckless driving, or another unlawful act caused serious physical injury. These cases can move quickly because police may collect statements, blood evidence, vehicle data, and medical records before the defense is involved.
Lebedin Kofman LLP defends clients facing vehicular assault and DWI-related injury allegations in New York City, Nassau County, Suffolk County, and throughout Long Island. The firm works early to protect the client while preserving evidence that may disappear quickly after a crash.
What Is at Stake
Vehicular assault can create felony exposure, jail or prison risk, license consequences, restitution, civil exposure, immigration issues, employment consequences, insurance problems, and lifelong record concerns. When injury is alleged, prosecutors may treat the case as serious from the first court appearance.
Issues That Need Immediate Review
- Whether prosecutors can prove serious physical injury
- Whether intoxication, impairment, recklessness, or another unlawful act caused the injury
- Whether police lawfully obtained statements, breath evidence, blood evidence, or vehicle evidence
- Whether medical records support causation and injury severity
- Whether accident reconstruction supports or weakens the prosecution theory
- Whether DMV, insurance, employment, or civil-case issues need coordinated strategy
Evidence We Work to Preserve
- Crash-scene photos, roadway conditions, weather, traffic-light timing, and intersection video
- Vehicle event data, damage patterns, repair records, and inspection records
- Body camera, dash camera, 911 calls, and officer notes
- Breath, blood, toxicology, warrant, consent, and chain-of-custody records
- Medical records, injury causation evidence, and ambulance reports
- Witness statements, phone data, GPS, rideshare, surveillance, and nearby business video
Defense Strategies We Evaluate
- No criminal causation between driving and injury
- Injury does not meet the required legal threshold
- Accident rather than recklessness or criminal negligence
- Unreliable chemical testing or improper blood draw
- Suppression of statements, stop, arrest, breath, or blood evidence
- Expert accident reconstruction, medical causation review, reduction, trial, or mitigation strategy
New York City, Nassau County, and Suffolk County Strategy
Vehicular assault cases in NYC and Long Island can involve prosecutors, police crash investigators, DMV issues, insurance communications, and civil exposure at the same time. A defense plan should account for the courthouse, crash location, local investigation practices, and the client?s license and employment needs.
How Lebedin Kofman LLP Helps
The firm reviews the criminal charge, DMV and license exposure, crash evidence, chemical testing, medical records, witness issues, insurance communications, and collateral consequences. The defense may involve emergency evidence preservation, negotiations, suppression motions, accident reconstruction review, expert consultation, hearings, trial preparation, mitigation, or sentencing advocacy.
Frequently Asked Questions
Should I talk to insurance or investigators after a crash?
Not about the facts of a criminal or potentially criminal allegation before speaking with a defense attorney. Statements to police, prosecutors, insurers, employers, or investigators can affect the criminal case, DMV issues, civil exposure, and license consequences.
Can accident evidence change the outcome?
Yes. Video, event data, vehicle damage, roadway conditions, toxicology, medical causation, witness reliability, phone records, and reconstruction evidence can change how prosecutors view the case and whether the required elements can be proven.
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Request a free consultation if you were arrested, contacted by police, received crash-related paperwork, face a license issue, or believe a serious driving investigation is underway.