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Chevrolet Silverado Pickup Truck 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
Silverado rollover accident, or have lost a family
member in a Silverado rollover accident, please click
here to contact a Lieff Cabraser attorney for
a free, prompt, no-obligation review of your case. |
| In 2005, the Insurance
Institute for Highway Safety issued a report finding
that the Chevy Silverado 1500 made between 1999
and 2002 had the highest driver death rate of any
of the large two-wheel drive pickups that were
part of the study. |
| A rollover crash can
happen in any type of vehicle. Pickup trucks
and SUVs, however, are not as safe as many
consumers believe because they ride higher
from the ground than passenger cars. This makes
pickups and SUVs more likely to roll over in
a crash. |
| When rollover accidents
occur, they are often fatal. In 2002, sixty-one
percent of all occupant fatalities in sport
utility vehicles (SUVs) and 45 percent of pickup
truck deaths were the result of a rollover
crash. By comparison, only 22 percent of passenger
car fatalities in 2002 were the result of a
rollover crash. |
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| Lieff
Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein,
LLP represents persons injured
in vehicle accidents. Click
here to submit your case. |
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| 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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| 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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LLP, a national personal injury attorney | lawyer law firm. |
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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
lawsuits across America, including persons living in Alaska, Alabama, Arkansas,
Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii,
Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Maryland,
Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, North Carolina, North Dakota,
Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, Nevada, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma,
Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia,
Vermont, Washington, Wisconsin, West Virginia and Wyoming. |
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