Greenville Car Accident Attorney Who Comes to You in Pitt County

The Greenville Police Department writes the report for a reportable crash inside the Greenville city limits, and G.S. 20-166.1(a) names a city's police department as the appropriate agency for a crash in that city. Section 61.1.5 of the department's policy manual makes Greenville officers responsible for responding to and investigating all reportable traffic crashes within its jurisdiction, and section 61.2.1 has the investigator complete the state DMV-349 form through the eCrash reporting system.

G.S. 20-4.01(33b) treats a crash on a Greenville street as reportable when it kills or injures a person or when property damage reaches $1,000 in total. A vehicle seized under G.S. 20-28.3 is a special case in that definition, since any amount of damage to it counts.

East Carolina University Police inside Greenville

The East Carolina University Police Department answers traffic accidents on the ECU campus in Greenville. G.S. 116-40.5(a) gives campus officers jurisdiction over property the university owns, leases, manages or controls, plus any public road passing through that property or immediately adjoining it. G.S. 116-40.5(b) allows a joint agreement with a city to extend that authority, and ECU Police says on its FAQ page that a jurisdiction-expanding agreement with the City of Greenville grants its officers full police powers within the city limits. The same FAQ says an officer will respond to a traffic accident on campus.

Pitt County roads past the city line

Past Greenville's city line, the agencies G.S. 20-166.1(a) names for a Pitt County crash are the Highway Patrol, the Pitt County Sheriff's Office and any qualified rural police force in Pitt. The Eastern North Carolina page names the Patrol troop for Pitt County.

Policy 61.2.1 tells Greenville officers that crash reports are not taken for crashes on personal or private property. A collision in a private lot or driveway in Greenville leaves you without a city DMV-349.

Without a city report, the names, insurance details and photographs you gathered in the lot carry more of the weight. Keep every text and message the other driver sends you after a lot crash.

Without a city report, the names, insurance details and photographs you gathered in the lot carry more of the weight.

Three NCDOT project pages describe widening work in and near Greenville. Allen Road Widening, project U-5875, covers about 2.3 miles of Allen Road from Stantonsburg Road to Dickinson Avenue Extension, which NCDOT labels U.S. 13, and the page says construction is underway.

The Evans Street and Old Tar Road project joins Greenville to Winterville, and its north end is Greenville Boulevard. Winterville is its own town on the Pitt County list of municipalities, so a crash at the south end of that project is outside the City of Greenville.

The Southwest Bypass and I-587 at the city's edge

The Southwest Bypass is a 12.6-mile, four-lane freeway that NCDOT opened on November 21, 2019. It begins on N.C. 11 about 2 miles south of Ayden, wraps around the west side of Ayden and Winterville, and ends at the U.S. 264 Bypass west of Greenville.

NCDOT's July 2022 release on the new numbering system says a 37-mile stretch of U.S. 264, from I-95 at Wilson to the N.C. 11/U.S. 264 interchange in Greenville, was re-designated I-587.

Reaching the Graham office by phone or email starts things moving after a Greenville crash. Each client goes through the same sequence from there.

This sequence also appears on the page describing how it works, and Greenville readers can also begin at the contact page.