Crashworthiness Attorneys
What is crashworthiness?
It refers to the protection that it provides passengers against personal
injury or death as a result of a motor vehicle accident. Crashworthiness
forces liability based on the construction or design of a product which
causes enhanced or greater injuries in the course of or following an initial
accident or collision. Did the automobile perform adequately in the accident?
Did the automobile adequately protect the occupants? The purpose of crashworthiness
litigation is to promote the safer design and manufacture of automobile.
Since it is nearly impossible to prevent all accidents, it is important
that your car is designed safely to protect you and your loved ones. We
believe that it is automobile manufacture's duty to design and manufacture
cars that are free of defects and safe for you and your occupants.
Each year, numerous recalls are issued because auto safety has been sacrificed. Frequently, auto recalls
are not announced until serious accidents and fatalities have occurred.
As of January 9, 2002 the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration (NHTSA) agreed to
develop a new investigative procedure on initiating auto defect recalls.
This decision follows reports showing the NHTSA lacking consistent procedures
regarding companies' decisions. It has resulted in having a decreased
effectiveness toward initiating recalls.
Forms of Crashworthiness:
1. The structural integrity of the car's body
2. The presence of occupant friendly surfaces in the passenger compartments
3. The ability of the vehicle to safely restrain passengers
4. Fuel system integrity
Crashworthiness is not the same as vehicle safety, and the two topics
must be distinguished. The safety afforded by a vehicle depends both on
crashworthiness and accident avoidance features, the latter including
such things as ABS, good handling characteristics, or even oversize tires.
These two concepts are frequently confused to the detriment of those
raising the crashworthiness issue. One vehicle might be safer statistically
than another and still have a significant crashworthiness defect. It could
even conceivably be less crashworthy overall while still being a "safer"
vehicle. This is because vehicle crashworthiness depends on designed in
features as well as equipment specifications which can be viewed as design
features. A given vehicle either has these features or it doesn't regardless
of its accident or even injury rates.
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