Augusta Car Accident Lawyer — Felicetti Law Firm

Augusta’s pedestrian deaths cluster at night, on four roads, to a degree that is hard to look at as coincidence.

Fifty-three deaths, fifty of them after dark

A local investigation using Richmond County Coroner records found that Gordon Highway, Deans Bridge Road, Peach Orchard Road and Mike Padgett Highway together accounted for 53 pedestrian deaths over ten years — and 50 of them happened between 9pm and 7am.

Georgia DOT separately lists Deans Bridge Road (US 1) and Washington Road (GA 28) as pedestrian safety focus corridors in Richmond County. When a pattern is that concentrated in place and in time, lighting, crossing spacing and signal placement are all fair questions in a claim — not just the conduct of the person walking.

Fort Gordon and the daily commute

The Army post south-west of the city — renamed Fort Gordon again in June 2025, now honouring Master Sergeant Gary I. Gordon — covers 56,000 acres and has roughly 31,000 military and civilian personnel on site. That is a large, time-compressed commuter flow onto Gordon Highway twice a day, on one of the same roads that appears in the pedestrian figures above.

Where an Augusta claim is filed

Augusta consolidated with Richmond County in 1996. Civil claims are heard at the Augusta-Richmond County Judicial Center and John H. Ruffin, Jr. Courthouse, 535 Telfair Street, which houses both the Superior Court of the Augusta Judicial Circuit and the State Court of Richmond County — the latter being where most car accident suits actually go, since its civil jurisdiction runs without regard to the amount in controversy.

One detail worth getting right: the Augusta Judicial Circuit is now Burke and Richmond counties only. Columbia County split off, and older pages still say otherwise.

Trauma care is at Wellstar MCG Health, a Level I center, with Doctors Hospital of Augusta designated Level II.

Georgia’s deadline and fault rule

You have two years to bring a Georgia injury suit. A claimant found 50 percent or more at fault recovers nothing; below that, damages fall by your percentage. In a night-time pedestrian case the insurer will almost always argue the pedestrian bears most of the blame, which makes that threshold the center of the case.

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Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. This page is general information about Georgia law, not legal advice, and does not create an attorney-client relationship. Deadlines and fault rules have exceptions; only a review of your own facts can tell you which apply. Cases are handled by attorneys licensed in the local jurisdiction.