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SUV Rollover: Why SUVs Are More Likely to Rollover |
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| The reason SUVs, and also
pickups, are more likely to roll over 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 rollover accidents represent
about 3% of all crashes in the U.S., almost 33%
of deaths on highways occurred in rollover crashes. |
| SUV rollover accidents
need not result in the death or serious injury
of drivers and passengers. |
| A number of design
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 represents
persons injured in vehicle
accidents. Click
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case. |
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| Lieff
Cabraser has participated
in thirty-five
$100 million-plus settlements & verdicts
since 1992. To read
a summary, click
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| Lieff Cabraser represents
persons injured, and the families of loved ones
who have died, in SUV rollover accidents. We have
filed SUV rollover injury lawsuits in federal and
state court across America on behalf of our clients,
and obtained favorable settlements for our clients.
The rollover lawsuits allege the SUVs at issue
are defective in their handling, stability, and
roof strength, leading to deadly rollover accidents. |
| We have profiled several
SUV rollover cases and investigations: |
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have a nationwide
team of experienced auto
defect and car accident
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to our vehicle injury
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We
have retained leading
national car crash
and auto defect experts. |
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We
have on staff a team
of
legal assistants, investigators
and nurses to assist
in the prosecution
of the claims of our
clients. |
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We
provide individual
attentive service.
Learn
more about our firm. |
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| Persons who have been
injured in rollover accidents involving SUVs or
pickup trucks, or family members of loved ones
who have died, should click
here to contact a SUV rollover lawyer / SUV
rollover attorney at the national law firm of Lieff
Cabraser. |
| 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
lawsuits across America, including persons living in Alaska, Alabama, Arkansas,
Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii,
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Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, North Carolina, North Dakota,
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Vermont, Washington, Wisconsin, West Virginia and Wyoming. |
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