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Kia Sportage SUV
Rollover Accidents |
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| In 2005, the Insurance
Institute for Highway Safety issued a report finding
that the four-door, two-wheel drive Kia Sportage
made between 1999 and 2002 had the second highest
rate of driver death of the 47 SUVs profiled in
the study. The four-door, four-wheel drive Sportage
had the sixth highest death rate. |
| 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. |
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| Lieff
Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein,
LLP represents persons injured
in vehicle accidents. Click
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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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| 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 Kia Sportage rollover accident,
or have lost a family member in a Sportage
SUV rollover accident, please click
here to contact a Lieff Cabraser attorney
for a free, prompt, no-obligation review of
your case. |
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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. |
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prosecuting personal injury and wrongful death lawsuits involving cars, vans,
pickup trucks, SUVs, the Yamaha Rhino and other
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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... |
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