You are not automatically barred from pursuing a lawsuit simply because you contributed to an accident. In the field of personal injury law, there is a concept known as “comparative negligence.” This law is described under OCGA §51-12-33 in Georgia.
Basically, if you somehow contributed to your rideshare accident, you can still seek damages for your injuries if you were less than 50% responsible for the accident. The court will determine your percentage of responsibility after they look at all the different human, environmental, and mechanical factors that contributed to your accident.
Your percentage of liability will be directly applied to your settlement, reducing it accordingly. To see how comparative negligence works, consider this example:
If you are awarded $10,000 for your economic and non-economic losses, but you were at fault for 40% of your accident, your final settlement becomes $6,000.