Sentences with phrase «to injure the driver»

The exclusion of seriously injured drivers from catastrophic care means there are less benefits these people are entitled to.

In states where personal injury protection is not available, you may want to purchase medical payments coverage, which offers similar protection for injured drivers or passengers.

We have been representing injured drivers and their families for 30 years combined and have obtained millions of dollars in compensation.

Product liability provides recourse to injured drivers whose harm was caused by a defective product.

Very significant accident benefits are available for seriously injured drivers, regardless of who or what caused the accident.

In states where personal injury protection is not available, you may want to purchase medical payments coverage, which offers similar protection for injured drivers or passengers.

The prevalence of non-alcohol drugs detected in fatally injured drivers in the U.S. has been steadily rising and tripled from 1999 to 2010 for drivers who tested positive for marijuana — the most commonly detected non-alcohol drug — suggesting that drugged driving may be playing an increasing role in fatal motor vehicle crashes.

Finally, note that credit cards tend to mostly offer collision, damage and theft coverage, if they offer anything at all — personal liability (hitting a pedestrian, crashing into a store front, or injuring drivers in another car) and personal effects are generally your problem.

Following the fatal head - on collision, emergency responders allegedly transported the seriously injured driver of the semi to the University of New Mexico Hospital via emergency helicopter.

The percentage of fatally injured drivers who were impaired by alcohol has held steady in recent years.

Nissan North America is recalling 2017 - 2018 Infiniti QX30 crossovers because poor grounding of steering components could cause the driver's - side airbag to deploy, potentially injuring the driver and...

An autopsy is expected today for the Palatine man who died after driving the wrong way in Arlington Heights Monday afternoon, causing a five - vehicle crash that critically injured another driver.

Looking at the statistics of alcohol use among fatally injured drivers from 1998 to 2006 available from the Traffic Injury Research Foundation (an independent organization) the percentage of drivers killed with an (old legal limit) BAC of.08 to.16 averages out at 82 %, whilst the percentage of drivers killed (while double the old legal limit) averages out at 57 %.

About 10,000 of those accidents injure drivers or passengers badly enough that they need immediate medical attention.

The GT3 gets a first - in - class carbon - fibre rear crash structure, roof hatch for removing injured drivers, and basically meets most of the standards of the next - level - up LMP1 class cars.

U.S. safety regulators have opened a preliminary investigation into the 2012 Hyundai Elantra after a side curtain airbag allegedly injured a driver...

We have successfully handled all types of cases involving side impact collisions that severely injure drivers and passengers.

According to a 2011 Canadian Road Safety report, 40 % of fatally injured drivers consumed some quantity of alcohol before the collision.

However, the accident did injure the driver, who reportedly fell asleep behind the wheel, and came perilously close to injuring two people asleep inside a motor home parked at the edge of the lot.

Insurance companies can sometimes try to low - ball injured drivers, making it vital that you get medical records from an EMT or other medical personnel.

Let us assume that you are at fault in causing a very serious motor vehicle accident that kills or significantly injures another driver.

Well, the intention of the law was to get injured drivers help more quickly while discouraging lawsuits.

Meanwhile, some lawmakers favor repealing no - fault auto insurance coverage and replacing it with a tort - based system under which injured drivers may sue the at - fault party.

You hit the other car, slightly injuring the driver and her passenger.

While driving his Mahindra Van on a winter morning, Mr. Mishra hit an auto, damaging the three - wheeler and injuring the driver who was taken to a hospital.

The creation of an interim impairment status, or adopting the American Spinal Injury Association (ASIA) scale, may create more reliable and consistent results, but it may have the inadvertent result of overlooking the subjective experience of the claimant as previously evaluated by the AMA Guides or excluding seriously injured drivers from the catastrophic definition.

Nissan North America is recalling 2017 - 2018 Infiniti QX30 crossovers because poor grounding of steering components could cause the driver's - side airbag to deploy, potentially injuring the driver and resulting in a crash.

While such coverage would protect you from most minor accidents, it may fall short if you kill or critically injure another driver or one of their passengers.

Fatally injured drivers with BACs of 0.15 percent or higher are more likely than other drivers to have a history of problem drinking.

Remember the story from last week about a mysterious «angel» priest who appeared at the scene of a car accident to pray with an injured driver before mysteriously vanishing?

When an accident occurs, the passage of time is critical, and knowing the health status — including current medications — could mean the difference between life and death for an injured driver.

While the study provides evidence that non-alcohol drugs in fatally injured drivers has increased significantly, the authors also note there are some limitations to consider.

Later in the month, while the federal investigation was ongoing, the parking brake on one of Flavio Borges Prado's trucks failed, causing the vehicle to roll down a hill and collide into a residential housing structure, injuring the driver and causing significant damages to the property.

Conequence: If the inflator separates from the back plate in the event of a crash necessitating deployment of the driver's frontal air bag, this may cause the air bag or steering wheel components to separate and be propelled into the interior compartment, potentially seriously injuring the driver or other occupants.

A blown engine, a seized transmission, or a punctured tire that causes a crash and injures a driver are failures that can often be avoided or stopped short with telemetry.»

The footage shows a 1997 Rover 100 that crumples up in a 40mph / 64kph offset frontal impact, seriously injuring the driver, alongside the latest Honda Jazz, which provides a high level of protection to its occupants.

Among fatally injured drivers ages 15 - 17 in 2008 - 12, 29 percent were in minicars or small cars, while 20 percent of fatally injured drivers ages 35 - 50 were.

This includes hitting another car, injuring another driver, their passengers, or pedestrians, or damaging someone else's property (mailbox, house, etc.).

We are pleased to say that the injured driver of a semi-truck is successfully recovering after his accident.

Colorado uses a comparative negligence model when the injured driver's own negligence contributed to the accident.

If a hazard is readily apparent or there was a sign or other indications of a slowdown, work zone or unusual road condition that the driver missed, then the defendant can assert that the injured driver was at least comparatively negligent for causing his or her own injuries.

The legal rights of a passenger to personal injury damages or a wrongful death claim are similar to that of an injured driver.

This means that injured drivers — or perhaps they should now be referred to as «passengers» — and other road users can continue to claim against a motor insurer and will not face having to make potentially complex product liability claims against vehicle manufacturers.

A driver who fails to stop at a red light and hits another vehicle, injuring the driver and / or passengers therein, is liable based on her negligent acts, for example.Many thousands of people are injured each year some very seriously when they slip and fall on a dangerous floor, a flight of stairs or a rough patch of ground.

An example of a design defect might include a vehicle airbag that deploys with such force that it injures the driver.

The ICBC monopoly often places it in the position of representing both an injured driver, pedestrian, or cyclist and the negligent party who caused the accident.

An improperly loaded trailer causes a truck to overturn and seriously injure the driver.

If damages exceed Uber's liability coverage, the injured driver could file a claim against the at - fault driver or Uber itself, although the latter course of action is notoriously difficult.

Under UIM coverage, if the injured driver's medical costs amount to $ 60,000, but the at - fault driver's policy limit is $ 50,000, the injured party's insurer would pay the $ 10,000 difference.