About Accident Atlas
A reference, not a referral.
Roughly six million car crashes happen in the US every year, and most of the people in them will never hire a lawyer. They’ll handle a claim themselves, once, with no map. Accident Atlas is that map: what happens after a crash, in order, in plain language, with the statutes cited — state by state, starting with Texas.
An independent publication
Guides, deadlines, and tools built on public statutes.
A law firm
Nothing here is legal advice, and no lawyer reviews your situation.
Recommend a lawyer
Not in a guide, not in an email, not ever.
How the guides get written
Every guide starts from primary sources — state statutes, insurance codes, court rules, and DOT records — and gets rewritten until a person with a totaled car and a headache can use it. Citations stay in the text so you can check us. When the law changes, the guide changes, and the “updated” date tells you when.
The playbook after a crash is the same in every state; the numbers aren’t. So each state gets its own edition: its filing deadline, its fault rule, its report portal, its prompt-payment clock. Texas is first. The next states are chosen by crash volume, not by where advertisers want us.
Corrections
If a number here is wrong, we want it fixed more than you do. Write to hello@accidentatlas.com with the guide and the source; corrections ship with a note at the bottom of the guide.