Car Accident

Content for the exact moment someone searches after a car accident

Motor vehicle collisions are the highest-volume incident type the system tracks. Every crash in your state is discovered, scored, and drafted into an article automatically.

Car accidents are the most common incident type Legal Content Engine's discovery engine detects — logged in the system as incident_type: motor_vehicle. They're also the highest-volume source of the exact searches people make in the hours after a crash: "do I need a lawyer after a car accident," "[city] car accident today," "who's at fault in a rear-end collision."

Because motor vehicle incidents are so common, the scoring engine leans on severity signals — fatality, critical injury, multiple victims, DUI involvement — rather than a flat type bonus, so your Review Queue surfaces the crashes actually worth writing about first instead of every fender-bender in your state.

How this is scored

Motor vehicle incidents are scored on the same base signals every incident gets: +50 for a fatality, +20 for a critical injury, +15 for two or more victims, +35 if DUI is alleged, and +25 if the crash happened in your firm's state. A routine, uninjured collision without those signals will typically score low and stay out of your queue.

Where it's sourced from

Sourced from your state's local TV, newspaper, and regional news RSS feeds — the same 8–15 sources configured automatically during onboarding based on the state you select.

Frequently asked questions

Does every car accident in my state generate an article?
No. Only incidents that clear your minimum priority score (default 60 points) get auto-queued for generation. A crash with a fatality, DUI, or multiple injured victims will score well above that; a minor collision with no reported injuries usually won't.
Can I write about accidents outside my primary state?
The system still discovers them, but incidents outside your firm's configured state get a −30 point penalty in scoring, so they're deprioritized by default. You can still manually generate an article for any incident from the Incidents page.
How is a car accident article different from a truck or DUI article?
The underlying article structure is the same — incident overview, applicable state law, insurance considerations, damages, and a call to action — but the AI tailors the legal guidance section to what's actually relevant: comparative fault and no-fault rules for a standard MVA, versus commercial carrier liability for a truck crash or dram shop laws for a DUI case.

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