Category : Vehicle Rollovers

CPSC ATV Accident Report Indicates Increase in Injuries in Children Below 16

All terrain vehicles are extremely prone to instability and rollovers, and their design continues to be a major factor in accidents. The Consumer Product Safety Commission has released an updated report into all-terrain vehicle-related deaths and injuries.

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Van Rollover Accident near Patterson Leaves 10 Injured

Ten people have been injured, some of them seriously, in a van rollover accident on interstate 5 near Patterson. According to the California Highway Patrol, the accident occurred at 2 pm yesterday.  The injured have been rushed to the hospital.  The driver of the van suffered serious injuries in the crash, and is listed as being in serious condition. The remaining passengers –  his wife and 8 children between 4 and 15 years of age- were also injured. The family is from Maricopa, Arizona.  According to witnesses, the van suffered a tire blowout, causing it to flip over several times. Investigations are going on.

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Vista High School Student Killed in Rollover Accident

California auto accident lawyers have been concerned over the high numbers of accidents involving teenage motorists. Over the weekend, there was another accident which illustrates how much more effort needs to be made in educating teen motorists. A high school student in Vista was killed in a rollover accident on Sunday.

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Toyota Accused by Former Lawyer of Hiding Crucial Rollover Accident Evidence

Automaker Toyota is facing serious charges by one of its former attorneys, who is accusing the companies of withholding important evidence in several rollover accident cases.

The company did this to ensure that proof of structural deficiencies in its vehicles remained hidden. Those allegations are part of a federal racketeering suit filed by Dimitrios Biller, who is former counsel for Toyota Motor Sales USA. Biller claims that his attempts to reveal the company’s misconduct has resulted in him being fired from his job. Toyota attorneys have brought a motion to seal Biller’s complaint, claiming that it is full of confidential company information that Biller has no right to reveal.

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Child Dies in Modesto Rollover Accident

An 8-year-old girl has been killed in Modesto in a rollover accident involving a Ford Explorer.

According to the Modesto Bee, the girl was riding in a 1999 Ford Explorer driven by Turlock-resident Amalia Perez on Sunday, when the SUV “began to shudder.” Soon, the left tire of the Explorer blew out, and when Perez tried to control the SUV by slamming on the brakes, the SUV veered to the right, and spun out of control. It left the highway and overturned, as it crashed down an embankment. Perez and a passenger suffered minor injuries, and were taken to the hospital. However, an 8-year-old girl who was in the SUV was ejected from the Explorer, and died at the scene.  The California Highway Patrol does not believe that alcohol was a factor in the accident, and no one has been arrested.

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New Cars Will find it Harder to Pass Safety Tests

The decline in fatality rates in accidents across the country can be traced in part to the safer automobiles that Americans are now driving around, compared to a couple of decades ago.  But now, automobile makers are going to find it harder to engineer their cars to do well on safety tests. The Insurance Institute of Highway Safety has said that it is going to make it more difficult for automobiles to receive top grades on their safety tests.

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New Federal Roof Crush Standards Will Minimize Injuries from Rollover Accidents

For years, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has had the same standards for the roofs of passenger vehicles to prevent injury to occupants during a rollover accident. Those standards could soon change.

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Rollover Accidents: Ford Will Have to Pay

Since 1999, Ford Motor Company, America’s oldest automaker, has been in the news for all the wrong reasons, not least for its Explorer-related SUV rollover accidents. A defect in the Ford Explorer’s design that causes it to flip over like an empty tin can in the event of loss of control or a burst tire, has been linked to hundreds of deaths in the US, not mention many more severe injuries, including spinal cord injuries and brain injuries.

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Driver Arrested in Riverside County Rollover Accident

Riverside County authorities who had been searching for the driver of a car involved in a rollover accident in Coachella last week, have finally managed to trace and arrest him.

According to Mydesert.com, the car crash was discovered at about 3:45 am on Saturday by a passerby who found the white Jeep Cherokee overturned on Highway 111. Inside were two passengers, both seriously injured. The two men were rushed to a nearby hospital, where one of them succumbed to his injuries. The other man still remains in the hospital in very serious condition.

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Two Killed in San Jose Car Accident

It had all the signs of a rollover accident involving the Ford Explorer – the flipping over of the SUV several times, the ejection of passengers, the deaths and the serious injuries resulting from the car accident. At the end of it, two people were dead, and at least four others were seriously injured.

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