Spinal Cord Injury from a Car Accident?

Nashville Spinal Injury Attorney Stan Davis Can Help

Car and motorcycle accidents account for over 40 percent of spinal cord injuries, making them the leading cause of spinal injuries in the United States. Collisions resulting in spinal injuries occur for many different reasons. Other drivers may simply operate their vehicles incorrectly or become distracted, but sometimes manufacturers produce faulty vehicles whose malfunctions can make the car spin out of control or produce many other dangerous situations. Life after a spinal injury from a car accident can change dramatically. Nashville spinal cord injury attorney Stan Davis has helped many people through the events you may be facing for the first time, and can offer the support and legal counsel you need.

Seatbelt Failures

Inventors designed seatbelts to restrain passengers and protect them in accidents. However, if manufacturers overlook an error in a seatbelt, it can rip, fit too loosely, or unlatch with the impact of a collision.

Rollovers

These types of accidents happen mainly to SUVs and vehicles with narrow wheelbases and a high center of gravity. Such engineering causes them to roll over far more easily than wider or shorter vehicles.

Power Windows

Sometimes manufacturers produce cars that either do not have safety features that cause windows to retract when they meet an obstruction, or the features malfunction. These injuries often result in neck injuries in children.

Seat Back Collapse

A malfunction in the back of the seat will cause it to collapse with the force of an accident, ejecting the occupant from the vehicle.

Roof Collapse

When a vehicle rolls over, the roof sometimes cannot support the weight and collapses on the occupants. This can cause serious injury to the heads and necks of passengers in the automobile.

Tire Tread Separations

Faulty tires can cause the tread to separate. When a tire has an unexpected blowout the driver can easily lose control, possibly colliding with another vehicle, rolling over or running off the road.

Suspension Defects

A defect in a car’s suspension can make steering suddenly difficult and often spin the car out of control. This can also lead to the car rolling over.

Drunk Driving

Another devastating possibility is that the driver of a vehicle that hit you was intoxicated at the time of the accident. The anguish of knowing that another person’s irresponsible and frivolous behavior cost you so much can be indescribable. In these cases, it is important to obtain the other vehicle operator’s driving history and other police records. In addition to recovering the necessary costs of treatment for your injury, trying drunk drivers can also ensure that they do not inflict such damage on any other victims or their families.

Nashville spinal cord injury lawyer Stan Davis knows that a car accident can seem to come out of nowhere, and understands the level of trauma you may feel after such a life-changing event. Contact the Law Office of Stanley A. Davis to speak to him personally about your case.