Automobile Crashworthiness

Vehicle Crashworthiness

SUV Crashworthiness

Automobiles and other passenger vehicles, including light trucks, sports utility vehicles (SUV), and minivans, must be properly designed and manufactured to protect all occupants against great harm in an accident. This principle is known as “crashworthiness.”

In an automobile crashworthiness case, which is a type of products liability lawsuit, the cause of the accident is usually of minor importance. While the auto manufacturer may try to paint the entire case as one about the cause of the accident, such as driver fatigue, driver inattention, driver distraction, or driver failing to evade a hazard, ultimately the trial's focus is on the vehicle defect which lead to the extreme harms and losses in the traffic crash.

A crashworthiness lawsuit focuses on the injuries caused to the vehicle's passengers and driver due to a defective design of the vehicle. For example:

• Did the injured driver or passenger of the uncrashworthy vehicle come into contact with the interior of the passenger compartment
  
  
• Was the car’s exterior is pushed inward crushing the occupants
  
  
• Did a fire or an explosion from the fuel system erupt, causing severe burn injury or death

maims or kills the occupants, the focus is on the vehicle’s design, or in other words, the motor vehicle’s ability to withstand a crash or collision with driver and passenger safety intact.

Rollover Accident

An automobile manufacturer may produce and sell a vehicle that is defective because it fails to restrain occupants safely, or the design is flawed because the vehicle’s driver or passenger compartments lack favorable surfaces.

Other times, a vehicle is manufactured with a faulty or poorly designed or operating fuel tank or fuel system, creating the ultimate fire hazard. The car may have been designed, manufactured, and sold without sufficient strength in its structure, or the steel cage the surrounds the passengers and driver, which is prone to failing when involved in a crash.

Here's a list of motor vehicle manufacturers which sell, or recently sold, autos in the United States: 

• Acura
  
  
• Audi (USA)
  
  
• BMW of North America
  
  
• Buick
  
  
• Cadilliac
  
  
• Chevrolet
  
  
• Chrysler
  
  
• Dodge
  
  
• Eagle
  
    
• Ferrari
  
  
• Ford
  
  
• General Motors Corp.
  
  
• Global Electric Motorcars, LLC
  
  
• GMC
  
  
• Honda
  
  
• Hummer
  
  
• Hyundai
  
  
• Infiniti
  
  
• Isuzu
  
  
• Jaguar (USA)
  
  
• Jeep
  
  
• Kia Motors America
  
  
• Lamborghini
  
  
• Land Rover of North America
  
  
• Lexus
  
  
• Lincoln
  
  
• Lotus
  
  
• Mazda (USA)
  
  
• Mercedes-Benz (USA)
  
  
• Mercury
  
  
• Mitsubishi Motors USA
  
  
• Nissan USA
  
  
• Oldsmobile
  
  
• Peugeot
  
  
• Pontiac
  
  
• Porsche (USA)
  
  
• Saab
  
  
• Saturn
  
  
• Subaru
  
  
• Suzuki
  
  
• Toyota (USA)
  
  
• Volkswagen of America, Inc.
  
  
• Volvo of North America

Personal injury and wrongful death cases involving vehicle crashworthiness are complex. Prompt investigation and product preservation are key to moving the crashworthiness claim forward.

If you or a loved one has been severely injured, burned, or killed as the result of an unsafe or poorly designed and manufactured automobile, sports utility vehicle (SUV), or light truck, then contact a personal injury attorney and trial lawyer in our firm to evaluate your restraint system failure claim, promptly and in confidence.

In vehicle defect claims or auto product liability claims, we may co-counsel, or jointly prosecute your serious personal injury claim or wrongful death claim with a crashworthiness lawyer whom we know and trust.  

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