Sentences with phrase «vehicle accident injuries occur»

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PRE-SAFE integrates multiple active and passive safety features for a «safety net» approach to vehicle safety by attempting to prevent accidents; if accidents do occur, PRE-SAFE aims to reduce occupant injury.

NHTSA's New Car Assessment Program compares vehicles by their performance in frontal crashes at 35 mph because more than half of vehicle occupant injuries occur in such accidents.

The crash tests compare vehicles by their performance in front crashes into a fixed barrier at 35 mph; more than half of vehicle occupant injuries occur in such accidents.

Should an accident occur, new Post-Collision Braking technology helps to reduce the impact of a potential secondary collision by automatically applying moderate brake pressure when an initial collision event is detected; slowing the vehicle can potentially lessen injury to occupants and further damage to the vehicle.

When an accident occurred in a vehicle that was driven for work - related purposes, an employer may be held responsible for all or a portion of the results of an injury.

Nearly 8,000 spinal cord injuries occur in the United States each year — with motor vehicle accidents the cause of almost half of all spinal cord injuries.

Often, these mutli - vehicle accidents occur in a chain - reaction, causing significant personal injury for the drivers and passengers involved.

The most common types of ICBC injury claims occur when there is a motor vehicle accident in B.C. between two motor vehicles.

The majority of accidents involving large trucks will occur with smaller vehicles such as an automobile or motorcycle and cause an injury.

Automobile accidents occur every day and can result in serious injuries, damage to your vehicle, loss of earnings, and severe pain and suffering.

In many cases, makers of SUVs can and should be held responsible for the injuries or deaths that occur as a result of these rollover accidents because of weak roof structures and safety restraint system failures that are built in these motor vehicles.

Direct Flame Burns: These injuries occur in house fires, vehicle crashes, gasoline fires, recreational fires and brush burning accidents

The most common car accident injuries occur from collisions between vehicles or from striking pedestrians.

If your injury attorney can show that the driver who caused the fatal crash ran a red light or violated a crosswalk rule at the time that the accident occurred, they can use this as evidence to help show that the defendant failed to operate the vehicle with due care.

But when bus accidents occur, they bring all of their massive size and weight to bear on the person or vehicle they hit, causing very severe injuries or death.

And while, in our experience these injuries more common in trucking cases, or in cases involving vehicle rollovers, spinal cord injuries can occur in any type of injury accident.

Take photographs of injuries, vehicle damage, and the accident scene or area in which the accident occurred, if it is safe to do so;

Approximately half of all spinal cord injuries occur as the result of motor vehicle accidents.

Spinal cord injuries can occur as the result of a motor vehicle accident or other compensable accident, and may not always be apparent immediately following injury.

While there are many types of injuries and accidents that can occur in motor vehicle accidents, some of the most common injuries relate to the back, neck, head and brain.

California Vehicle Code 5430 VC requires these companies to carry a minimum of $ 1 Million in premiums to cover personal injury, death, and property damage caused when an accident occurs while a rideshare driver is on the clock.

Because no braking or vehicle slowing occurs, these accidents are considered «unexpected» collisions that usually result in traumatic injuries to drivers and passengers.

Ridesharing vehicles are frequently packed with passengers and, as a result, when an accident does occur, the likelihood of an injury significantly increases.

A catastrophic injury such as wrongful death, traumatic brain injury, spinal cord injury, burns and scarring can occur as a result of numerous occurrences, including, but not limited to, motor vehicle accident, truck accident, defective product, construction site accident, or unsafe premises.

In many vehicle accidents involving injury and / or death there is often a vehicle design issue which may have prevented the injury from ever occurring; or limiting the severity of the injury brought upon the victim.

Underride trucking accidents occur when a smaller vehicle rear - ends a tractor trailer and becomes wedged underneath, and such an accident can cause serious injury, damage to your vehicle, or even death.

As these commercial trucks can weight in excess of 80,000 lbs when fully loaded, the danger to other drivers is extreme, and when motor vehicle accidents occur, the injuries sustained can be life - threatening or even result in fatal injuries to the innocent.

Defective auto parts — When any part of an automobile is defective, this may not only cause an accident to occur but may increase the severity of the collision by failing to protect vehicle occupants from injury.

If the injuries were caused as the result of an intentional act; if the accident occurred as a result of the injured person's use of alcohol or drugs; if the accident occurred while the injured person was committing a felony; if the injured person was operating or was a passenger on a motorcycle; if the injured person or his or her spouse was driving an uninsured vehicle.

The Plaintiff was a 47 - year old man who sustained a soft - tissue injury in a motor vehicle accident occurring on March 24, 2010.

This ICBC injury claim involved the assessment of legal costs from the settlement of a claim arising from a motor vehicle accident which occurred in British Columbia.

Many pedestrian accidents are caused by vehicles, but injuries can also occur when walkways aren't properly maintained or there are unmarked hazards.

This personal injury case arose from a car accident which occurred at the intersection of 140th Street and 74th Avenue in Surrey when the other vehicle turned left into the path of the claimant's vehicle.

In that case damages were assessed on the basis that the 51 - year - old plaintiff had suffered injuries to her shoulders, right elbow, and neck that largely resolved within about eight months, but for the right shoulder which remained injured and was predisposed to further injury which occurred in two subsequent motor vehicle accidents.

When bus drivers operate their buses in a reckless, careless, or distracted manner — or when a bus driver drives reasonably, but another driver's vehicle negligently collides with the bus — serious accidents and injuries can occur.

If your injury occurred in a slip and fall, motor vehicle accident, or another type of accident where someone else may have been at fault, you should talk with an attorney before you talk with the other person's insurance company.

However, as more people spend time enjoying these recreational vehicles, more accident and injuries occur.

Motor vehicle accidents occur every day, resulting in varying degrees of injury or, too often, death.

Certainly the disc injury does exist but Dr. Fritz agrees that it is impossible to prove when it occurred and it could just as easily have occurred from the plaintiff's other activities than from the motor vehicle accident.

Catastrophic injuries often occur in serious accidents involving motor vehicles, watercraft, aircraft and commercial vehicles as well as other personal injury situations resulting from medical or nursing home malpractice, dog bites, burn injuries or slip & fall accidents to name a few.

As recreational vehicles become more popular, so do the number of accidents and injuries that occur.

When an Illinois car accident occurs with one of these massive agricultural vehicles on the road, the results can range from damage to vehicles to serious injury and death for motorists.

[86] I find myself unable to accept Dr. Fritz's opinion that the disc injury occurred in the motor vehicle accident.

When a truck accident occurs, people often think of the injuries experienced by other motorists - and understandably so since a truck is so much larger and heavier than the average vehicle.

It's fortunate no other motorists were on that particular stretch of road when the truck accident occurred, as these large vehicles have the potential to cause catastrophic and fatal injuries, especially if one were to hit a passenger vehicle head on in the opposing lane.

A number of potential injuries can occur as a result of a work related motor vehicle accident, ranging from the mild to the very severe.

Is your college student son or daughter dealing with the pain and suffering of a motor vehicle accident, bicycle accident or pedestrian accident or other injury collision that occurred in Idaho?

Brain Injuries — Common after motor vehicle accidents, brain trauma occurs when the brain bounces inside the skull.

Catastrophic injuries occur as a result of slip and fall incidents, motor vehicle accident, boat accidents, or medical malpractice.

Brain injuries occur unexpectedly, and are often the result from a fall, motor vehicle accident, or blow to the head.