Georgetown, TX Bicycle Accident Lawyer

Recognized & Trusted

When a car and a bicycle collide in Georgetown, the driver’s insurer often starts by blaming the rider. SMB Law, PC builds the case that fixes fault where it belongs and pursues fair compensation for the harm you suffered. An experienced Georgetown bicycle accident lawyer knows how to answer the reflexive assumption that the cyclist was at fault. Shane has represented injured Texans for more than twenty years and personally builds the case that puts blame where the evidence actually points.

Georgetown’s scenic trails and growing road network put more cyclists alongside more traffic every year, and the crashes we see most often involve a driver turning across a rider’s path or failing to yield at an intersection near the square or along the university corridor.

Where a Georgetown bicycle accident claim is handled

As the Williamson County seat, Georgetown handles these cases at the Williamson County Justice Center on Martin Luther King Jr. Street, right in town. Keeping the case in your home county keeps hearings close if litigation becomes necessary.

Proportionate responsibility and the anti-cyclist bias

Texas uses proportionate responsibility, which means your recovery is reduced by your percentage of fault and barred entirely only if you are found more than 50% at fault. Insurers know this, so they push to pin blame on the cyclist — arguing you ran a stop sign, rode outside a lane, or were not visible — because every point of fault they assign to you shrinks what they pay.

Countering that bias is the heart of a Georgetown bicycle case. We use the crash report, physical evidence, camera footage, and, when needed, a reconstruction expert to show what the driver did and to protect you from an unfair share of blame. Done right, that work can move a claim from a lowball offer to a full and fair result.

In a contested Georgetown case, a qualified crash-reconstruction expert can be decisive. Using the damage patterns, the point of impact, sight lines at the intersection, and vehicle speed, a reconstruction shows the sequence of events in a way a jury can follow — and it often dismantles the insurer’s story that the rider darted out or was invisible. We know which experts hold up under cross-examination and when the facts justify bringing one in.

Decades of Texas injury experience on your side

These cases are won on details, and details reward experience. You work directly with attorney Shane M. Boasberg, who has represented injured Texans for more than two decades and has been licensed by the State of Texas since 2003. He knows how Central Texas insurers value bicycle claims, how local juries view riders, and how to counter the reflexive argument that the cyclist ‘came out of nowhere.’ You get a lawyer who has done this many times — not a case manager reading from a script.

Working with us from Georgetown

Our office is in downtown Austin, an easy reach from Georgetown. We handle most consultations and case updates by phone and video, and there is no fee unless we recover for you. If travel is difficult, we can also come to you.

Why injured cyclists choose SMB Law, PC

• Direct attorney access — you talk to Shane, licensed since 2003, not a call center.
• No fee unless we recover — injury cases are handled on a contingency basis.
• Honest advice and transparent terms explained before you commit.

What working with us looks like

1. Free consultation to understand what happened and the law that applies.
2. Investigation — we preserve evidence, obtain the crash report, and identify every insurer.
3. Negotiation or court — we settle when the offer is fair and litigate when it is not.
4. Recovery paid out and medical liens resolved so you keep more of it.

Cycling Georgetown

The San Gabriel River trail system gives Georgetown cyclists a genuinely safe spine. The risk is everywhere the trails end: shoulder-less stretches of SH-29, Williams Drive’s driveway conflicts, and the crossings where trail traffic meets car traffic.

Texas’s safe-passing obligations and right-of-way rules decide these cases — the question is the driver’s violation, not the cyclist’s presence, and we build the file that way from day one.

Injuries in Georgetown often overlap with other collisions; we also represent people hurt in crosswalk crash injuries, a motorcycle wreck case, and car wreck representation, backed by our Austin bicycle accident practice.