I was Unit 5 in a 7-vehicle chain-reaction crash on I-85 Southbound in DeKalb County on April 7, 2026. Based on the report, my vehicle was stopping or slowing and got hit from behind by Unit 4, so I was not the vehicle that caused the crash. The report shows Unit 1 as the at-fault vehicle because that vehicle started the chain by striking the vehicle in front, which then caused the rest of the pileup.
How long it will take get decision this ?
Posted by Titu_8055
4 Comments
A very long time. If you have collision, file a claim to get your car repaired. Plus there may be a limits issue with the coverage of whoever is deemed at fault.
Decision for what? For car 1 to accept liability for everything? Probably going to take some time I’d imagine. Then you have possible limits issues depending on the damages to all these cars.
If you have collision coverage, use your insurance and let them worry about everything else. If not, make your claim with car 1 and sit back and wait.
Unfortunately I have liability, unit one has started this reaction and unit 4 rear ended me but I haven’t hit anyone in my front
So unit 1 might be the liable if insurance determine unit 1 started the reaction
I can’t claim with one who rear ended me ?
Probably months, and in all likelihood, there won’t be enough property damage limits to cover everyone’s damages, so everyone is going to end up taking a haircut.
The at fault carrier will have to investigate and confirm coverage and liability. That shouldn’t take all that long if there aren’t any issues, but you never know. The problem is they won’t pay anyone out until they know how much damage there is for everyone, and that process takes months when there are six cars that need repairs. And at the end of that process, unless the damage is minimal for most of the cars or the at fault driver carries high PD limits, there won’t be enough in limits to fix/total all the cars. And that usually ends up with each damaged car getting a percentage of the available limits based on the amount of their damage compared to the amount of total damage for all cars.
If you have collision coverage, your best bet is almost certainly filing with your own carrier and let them worry about recovering whatever they spent (and hopefully your deductible) from whatever limited pot is available.