Pedestrian Knockdown

John’s knowledge and experience in collisions where pedestrians are killed or seriously injured by cars and trucks matters. Results matter.

In 2024, John Beatty confidentially settled one of New York’s Largest Pedestrian Struck cases involving a woman hit a ride share food delivery service car.

In 2023, John settled one of New York’s Largest Pedestrian Struck cases involving a man run over a by a City of New York Tow Truck improperly attempting to tow his vehicle.

John Beatty has helped to recover tens of millions of dollars on behalf of people struck by motor vehicles. Our firm knows of few lawyers in New York with the depth and breadth of the experience John Beatty has investigating, litigating and preparing for trial cases involving fatal and serious pedestrian collisions, as an attorney and with the NYPD.

When someone you love has been injured or killed by a vehicle, call the attorney who has vast experience fighting insurance companies and corporations for families whose lives have been turned upside down in an instant in car and truck accidents.

John has litigated catastrophic and fatal pedestrian accidents in Manhattan, the Bronx, Queens, Westchester, Nassau, Suffolk, Rockland, and Brooklyn. John’s investigative ability, thoroughness and knowledge of the law helped achieve one of the highest verdicts for a pedestrian struck in New York ever awarded. *

Some of the tragic pedestrian and motor vehicle cases John has litigated:

  • Husband and wife pedestrians horrifically injured when a vehicle being chased by police jumped the curb and struck them in front of their Brooklyn home
  • Pedestrian Man catastrophically injured with brain injury when struck by a passing commercial vehicle in Brooklyn requiring life-long institutional care
  • Pedestrian wife, mother and physician suffered life altering facial fractures and dental injuries crossing street at construction site near Grand Central Station
  • Pedestrian woman injured in crosswalk by turning truck on 57th Street in Manhattan enroute to volunteer
  • Pedestrian Bronx Grandfather stuck and killed by truck while crossing intersection out buying a birthday gift for his grandson
  • Disabled Long Islander who required wheelchair killed when his wheelchair stuck while on roadway by young man who had been drinking and fled the scene
  • Pedestrian Nurse and mother of two killed in Queens by speeding vehicle on Hillside Avenue while shopping
  • Pedestrian Teenager struck by delivery struck on dark road in Westchester County while walking with friends
  • Pedestrian Woman executive killed in crosswalk by turning school bus in Queens as she walked to subway to go to work
  • Pedestrian child struck and killed by ice cream truck
  • Nassau County Father and son pedestrians walking home from religious service struck on side of road by drunk driver overs served by bar (DRAM SHOP)
  • Pedestrian Mother and children seriously injured by road rage motorist and defective roadway; the infant child died from their injuries
  • Accomplished Manhattan wife and mother Pedestrian suffered brain injury (TBI) on upper west side when two vehicles collided in intersection and one veered into her in the crosswalk

*Denotes work at a law firm other than Beatty Law, PLLC

When you get that terrible call that a loved one has been struck by a vehicle or when you have been struck by a vehicle, contact experienced pedestrian accident attorney John Beatty as soon as possible to let him sensitively and compassionately help guide and protect your family’s rights to compensation.

Let John get you the answers you and compensation you deserve.

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