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Blazer SUV Rollover Accidents |
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| The national law
firm of Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein,
LLP, represents victims of rollover accidents
and other vehicle crashes in personal injury
lawsuits. If you or a family member have been
injured in a Chevrolet Blazer rollover accident,
or have lost a family member in a Blazer SUV
rollover accident, please click
here to contact a Lieff Cabraser attorney
for a free, prompt, no-obligation review of your
case. |
| In April 2007, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety ("IIHS") again found that two-door, two-wheel drive Chevrolet Blazers had the highest rate of driver deaths from 2002 through 2005. Chevrolet Blazers built from 2001 to 2004 had the high rate of 232 driver deaths per million registered vehicles during the four-year span. (Chevrolet discontinued the Chevy Blazer in 2005).
The study of over 200 passenger vehicles conducted by IIHS included rates of driver deaths in all crashes plus rates in multiple-vehicle, single-vehicle, and single-vehicle rollover crashes. |
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| Lieff
Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein,
LLP represents persons injured
in vehicle accidents. Click
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| To determine the driver death rate, the IIHS used data from the federal government's Fatality Analysis Reporting System and registration counts from The Polk Company, a Michigan-based provider of automotive information. The rate represented the reported number of driver deaths divided by the model's number of registered years, according to data from. |
| This study reaffirms conclusions made in March 2005 by IIHS on vehicle safety. The 2005 IIHS report analyzed the risk of death for almost 200 car, minivan, SUV and pickup truck models manufactured between 1999 and 2002. In that study, the institute found that the two-door, two-wheel drive Chevrolet Blazer had the highest death rate of any vehicle at 308 driver deaths per million registered years, as well as the highest rollover death at 251 per million. The report also found that the Chevy Blazer four-door, two-wheel drive had one of the highest rates of driver death of the vehicles studied. To read a copy of the study, click here. |
| A number of potential
safety issues and vehicle defects can contribute
to the occurance of SUV rollovers and lead to serious
injury or death in the event of a rollover accident.
Potential safety issues include: |
- The vehicle is defective in its handling
and stability because it is top-heavy and prone
to heavy oversteering by drivers, making a
rollover accident likely;
- The vehicle is equipped with defective door
latches that are too weak to hold the doors
shut in a rollover accident, causing passengers
to be ejected from these vehicles;
- The roof-strength of the SUV is deficient,
resulting in a collapse of the roof in a rollover
accident;
- The vehicle is not equipped with laminated
safety glass which would help prevent passengers
from being ejected in SUV rollovers; and
- The seat belts are defective because they
do not automatically retract and tighten during
an accident.
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| The reason SUVs -- and
also pickups -- are more likely to rollover in
a collision, sudden movement or accident as compared
to most cars and station wagons is that SUVs have
a higher center of gravity. SUVs ride higher from
the ground than passenger cars. While rollovers
represent about 3% of all crashes in the U.S.,
almost 33% of total deaths on highways occur in
rollover crashes. |
| Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein,
LLP, is a national law firm of over 50 lawyers with offices in San Francisco,
New York and Nashville. Our attorneys are recognized
for the successful prosecution of lawsuits involving deaths, personal injuries
and property damage due to defective products, including in the field of vehicle
safety. |
| In 2007, in the case
of Mraz
v. DaimlerChrysler, Lieff Cabraser
attorneys, with local co-counsel, obtained
the fourth largest verdict in California for
the year. At trial, plaintiffs showed that
a defective
transmission was responsible for making
a Dodge Dakota pickup shift into reverse and
run over Richard Mraz. |
| Currently, we are
prosecuting personal injury and wrongful death lawsuits involving cars, vans,
pickup trucks, SUVs, the Yamaha Rhino and other
vehicles. To learn more about the firm, click
here. |
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| About Lieff Cabraser:
Drivers and passengers injured in auto crashes and pickup truck and SUV rollover
accidents, or families of loved ones who died, may be eligible to file lawsuits
against other drivers at fault or against the manufacturer of their vehicle if
the accident was due to a safety defect. Safety defects can include a high risk
of rolling
over, tire tread
separation, seat
belt failures and other defects. Learn
more... |
| We have offices in San
Francisco, New York and Nashville.
Our car crash accident lawyers and auto accident attorneys have represented
clients in personal injury, auto accident, SUV rollover and vehicle safety defect
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