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more_legal_areas suvSUV rollover injury is a significant safety concern because of the increased risk of rollover in SUVs compared to other motor vehicles. In 2002 alone, fifty eight thousand people suffered SUV rollover injury, including four thousand in single vehicle rollover accidents. In that same year, twenty five hundred people were killed in SUV rollover injury accidents. SUV rollover injury is three times more likely to lead to fatality than passenger vehicle rollover injury.
SUV rollover injury risks are twice as great as planar vehicle accidents, meaning that people who are involved in SUV rollover accidents are more likely to suffer serious injury than victims of other motor vehicle accidents not involving rollover. Unbelted SUV occupants are three times more likely to suffer serious SUV rollover injury or death than those who wear their seatbelts. Eighty four percent of the harm that is caused in SUV rollover accidents occurs to passengers who are not wearing their seatbelts.
SUV rollover injury often results in serious head, brain, spinal cord, and/or back injuries. These types of SUV rollover injury are the most serious and potentially fatal types of injuries that an accident victim can sustain. Serious SUV rollover injury is often the result of impact between a person''s head and some part of the vehicle''s interior during an accident. The head can be violently thrown into the dashboard, the windshield, the roof, the side windows, or any other part of the vehicle''s interior.
Serious SUV rollover injury can also be caused when a person is ejected from the vehicle during a rollover accident. Ejection is the cause of more than half of all SUV rollover injury cases. Ejection is much more likely to occur when a passenger is not properly restrained in the vehicle. The majority of ejections causing SUV rollover injury occur when a person is thrown out a side window in a vehicle accident.
While all rollover accidents are dangerous, those involving SUVs are particularly alarming because they occur three times more often than rollover in passenger cars. This is due to the fact that SUVs are less stable on the road because they have a higher center of gravity and are narrower than other vehicles.
SUV rollover injury statistics have been largely concealed from the public because of political and automobile groups'' worry that this information would cause a decrease in SUV profits. The average SUV sale results in a $5,000 profit and can be as high as $15,000 per vehicle sold. Because of the high demand of SUVs and the large profit margins enjoyed through SUV sales, automobile manufacturers are reluctant to make SUV safety changes. These companies go to great lengths to conceal the prevalence and severity of SUV rollover injury cases so that sales will not suffer. Several prominent news groups and consumer advocacy organizations have avidly fought to relay SUV rollover injury risks to the public. The NHTSA has begun to publish SUV rollover test results annually to inform the public about these risks. If you or a loved one has suffered a SUV rollover injury, you may be eligible to seek compensation for your damages through a personal injury lawsuit.
A California court of appeals ordered Ford Motor Company to pay a jury award of $82.6 million to a woman left paralyzed after a rollover accident in 2002.
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