Human beings make cars and fix cars and sometimes they make mistakes. Unfortunately, when dealing with cars traveling at great speeds, those mistakes can cause serious injury or even death. Prosecuting such cases, holding a mechanic or an auto technician liable, are incredibly complicated to undertake are require only the most experienced auto accident personal injury lawyer. As with any legal action against a corporation, your auto accident attorney will have to prove that the automobile failure, the malfunction that caused your accident, was not performed to the appropriate standards and that it specifically caused your accident and injuries. Now, let’s say that nothing on your car failed. Let’s day you got into an accident because something on another vehicle failed – a tire or a foreign object flew off another car, struck yours and caused injury or even death. These types of accidents occur all of the time and they are very challenging cases to pursue. (Learn more.)
- Can a car accident happen because the mechanic did something wrong? Yes.
- Can a car accident happen because a tire was put on incorrectly? Absolutely.
- Can a driver get injured or killed because a product malfunctions? It happens every day.
- Car accidents are the leading cause of avoidable deaths in the United States.
According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), every year there are more than 6,000,000 car accidents with more than 1,500,000 injuries and more than 20,000 deaths.
Yes, These are Sobering Statistics
While most car accidents are caused by driver negligence there is an increasing amount that are caused by external events. For example, you could get into an accident because your mechanic installed your cars tires incorrectly. There are countless ways for something to fail in your vehicle that causes you to crash and cause great harm to your vehicle or your person. An incident caused not by your or another drivers error, but by the work of another. If that’s the case, a legal advocate would be a great place to start to ensure that you are protected under the law.
Tires and Brakes
Now, tires are not the only thing that can fail on a car – brakes, steering or even the engine itself. Sometimes human error or gross negligence can cause a car to lose control, fires to start, brakes to fail etc., etc. Can you file a personal injury lawsuit because your vehicle malfunctioned in some way? That would be a good question to ask one of the lawyers at Ledger & Associates. In fact, they are so eager to answer your personal injury questions that you are eligible for a free, confidential, detailed evaluation with a personal injury lawyer at Ledger & Associates. To do so, please call 1-800-300-0001 or visit the firm’s website for more information at www.ledgerlaw.com.