Defective Seat Back Lawsuits, Automobile Ejection Lawsuits, Van Ejection Lawsuits, SUV Ejection Lawsuits, Fatal Rollover Ejection Lawsuits, Texas Deadly Crash Lawsuits, Failed Restraint Lawsuits, Fatal Child Restraint Automobile Accident Lawsuits, and other Fatal Car Wreck Lawsuits by Texas Rollover Crash Ejection Lawyer Jason S. Coomer

Defective seat fatal rollover crash ejection lawsuits arise out of defective seat designs, defective seat backs, defective safety belt design, and defective airbag design.  These defective seat driver ejection and passenger ejection crash lawsuits usually occur when a person is ejected from a SUV or Van while the vehicle is rolling over or where the seat back of the defective vehicle breaks failing to secure a driver or passenger during a vehicle crash.  Seat defects in automobiles can turn a simple automobile accident into a fatal car wreck, deadly SUV or Van rollover crash, or a Van, SUV, or Truck catastrophic injury ejection accident.   

If you a question about a fatal car wreck lawsuit, deadly SUV rollover ejection crash lawsuit, van rollover ejection crash, or other serious injury or fatal ejection accident lawsuit, feel free to submit an inquiry or send an e-mail to Texas Defective Seat Fatal Rollover Ejection Crash Lawyer Jason Coomer

Fatal Rollover SUV Crash Lawsuits, Defective Seat and Roof Lawsuits, Deadly Defective SUV Rollover Ejection Crash Lawsuits, Defective SUV Rollover Ejection Crash Lawsuits, and Fatal Roof Design Rollover Ejection Accident Lawsuits

Several different types of defective automobiles can cause a minor accident to become a catastrophic injury ejection crash or fatal ejection crash accident.  Fatal ejection crash lawsuits and serious injury ejection crash lawsuits can include defective SUV design lawsuits, defective child restrain ejection lawsuits, defective driver restraint ejection lawsuits, defective passenger restraint lawsuits, defective SUV rollover ejection design lawsuits, defective minivan ejection lawsuits, defective SUV roof safety design lawsuits, defective van ejection lawsuits, defective SUV seat back lawsuits, defective seat belt ejection lawsuits, defective airbag ejection lawsuits, defective steering column design lawsuits, and defective SUV child restrain design. 

In the aftermath of a serious automobile crash or deadly SUV rollover collision, it is extremely important to investigate how the fatal rollover ejection crash occurred and if a vehicle defect was the cause of the rollover ejection crash or caused a minor accident to become a catastrophic injury or deadly crash because the driver or passengers were ejected from the vehicle.   

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Manufacturers have known for decades that vehicles roll over in reasonably foreseeable accidents. With the rise in popularity of SUVs, vans, minivans, and pick-up trucks, the number of people who are susceptible to vehicles rolling over has increased significantly over the last 20 years. However, in light of the fact that more people are affected by rollovers, most vehicle manufacturers have not increased the strength of the roofs in their SUVs, vans, minivans, and pick-ups to protect the driver and passengers of these vehicles.  In fact, many vehicles have serious safety issues regarding vehicle rollovers including seat backs that break, seat belts that release, safety restraints that do not work during a rollover, airbags that do not properly deploy, and other locking systems that allow doors to open during a rollover accident.

Any of these rollover safety defects can cause a survivable rollover accident to become a fatal ejection rollover accident or a catastrophic injury ejection rollover accident.  Therefore when investigating an ejection rollover accident lawsuit or other ejection collision lawsuit, it is extremely important to check the type of vehicle in the rollover ejection accident or ejection collision and determine if the vehicle has a history of safety issues with the seats, seat backs, seat belts, safety restraint system, locks, or airbags. 

A defective roof can also cause serious injuries or death in a rollover crash.  A roof crush, or “loss of occupant survival space,” creates many problems for occupants in the vehicle. First, it rapidly reduces the space in the vehicle for the occupant. This will increase the risk that the occupant will receive a spinal cord compression injury. Second, roof deformation does not happen straight down but rather down and in toward the occupant. This significantly increases the likelihood that a properly belted occupant will be partially ejected out of the vehicle during the roll sequence. Typically the force of the roll coupled with the glass shattering out of the window, the roof crushing down and inward and the seatbelt not properly securing the occupant to the seat will result in the occupant having his or her head and/or arm and shoulder out of the vehicle during the roll. As will be discussed below, there are other ways to keep an occupant in the vehicle during a roll but a roof that stays in place during a roll reduces the risk of a person being partially ejected or receiving a compression injury even without the other safety measures.

The most common injuries associated with roof crush are spinal cord compression injuries and death. Many automobile manufacturers have taken the position, especially in spinal cord compression injury cases, that the injury was caused by the occupant “diving” into the roof. The term “diving” comes from the analogy of swimming pool diving injuries to compression injuries sustained in rollovers. With this defense, the automobile manufacturers maintain the injury occurs before the roof crushes in by the head moving toward the roof until it can go no further and the weight of the occupant’s body moving toward the head until there is such loading on the neck that a spinal injury occurs. Vehicle manufactures allege through testing and expert testimony that when a vehicle is inverted, the forces of gravity and the roll sequence will lead to an occupants head contacting the roof without any roof crush. They allege that there is no alternative roof design that can stop this from happening.

Partial ejections are also common in rollover accidents because the roof crushes down and in toward the occupant. When the roof crushes down and in, the force of the roll causes the occupant’s head to get outside the plane of the vehicle. In a partial ejection, it is common for an occupant to hit his or her head against the ground or pavement or get it caught between the car and ground during the roll. Vehicle manufacturers often argue that no matter the strength of the roof, a belted occupant can get their head out of the car during a roll. But if you keep the roof from deforming more than 3 inches during a rollover, restrained and contained occupants cannot get their heads out of the plane of the vehicle and sustain a catastrophic injury. The most important series of tests that address the causal relationship between occupant injuries and roof deformation are Malibu I and Malibu II. These were dolly rollover tests performed with Chevrolet Malibus (some with production roofs and others with reinforced roofs that did not deform during the rollovers). The vehicles were equipped with Hybrid III test dummies (in Malibu I the dummies were unrestrained and in Malibu II the dummies were properly belted). Vehicle manufacturers use the Malibu tests to argue the roof crush does not actually cause the injury.

The test data demonstrates, however, that there is a causative relationship between the strength of the roof and significant neck loading. Analysis of the Malibu testing and other testing that has been performed by the automotive industry and others is beyond the scope of this paper, but it is important for anybody handling a roof crush case to be well-versed in all of this testing. When analyzing a roof crush case, it is important to analyze the extent of the roof deformation. This will require measurements that can be done by a trained attorney or investigator. Further, as discussed above, the accident reconstruction will provide much information that will allow an analysis of a roof crush case. Trip speed, roll velocity, number of rolls, drop height and the type of roll (barrel, end over end or football) are all needed to analyze whether or not a safer alternative design existed that would have kept the occupant compartment space preserved during the roll.

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Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards set minimum performance requirements for those vehicle parts that protect drivers and passengers from death or serious injury in the event of a crash (air bags, safety belts, child restraints, energy absorbing steering columns, motorcycle helmets).  These vehicle performance requirements, defective automobile crashworthiness lawsuits, manufacturer safety policies, and the investigation efforts of the The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration are important to identify unsafe vehicles with defective airbags, defective seat belts, defective child restraints, defective roof design, defective designs that cause vehicle fires, and defective designs that cause vehicle rollovers.

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Defective Safety Belts, Shoulder Belts, and other restraining safety devices in an automobile can cause catastrophic injuries or even death to a driver or passengers during an automobile crash.  For more information on the Defective Seat Belt Ejection Crash Lawsuits and Failed Safety Restraint Ejection Crash Lawsuits, feel free to go to the following webpage on the Defective Seat Belt Ejection Crash Lawsuits and Failed Safety Restraint Ejection Crash Lawsuits.

Automobile Accident Defective Crashworthiness Product Liability Lawsuits and The Crashworthiness Doctrine under Texas Law and Federal Law

Defective Automobile Accident Lawsuit Crashworthiness cases involve claims that a design defect caused or enhanced the injuries of a vehicle’s occupants during an automobile crash. To identify a crashworthiness claim, one must examine the interplay among the circumstances of the accident, the performance of the vehicle during the accident, and the injuries suffered. Such defects may cause a minor injury automobile collision to become a fatal automobile collision or cause enhanced injuries by failing to provide suitable protection from injury or death in foreseeable automobile accidents. Crashworthiness lawsuits have taken many forms, both in Texas litigation and throughout state and federal courts.  For more information on the the Crashworthiness Doctrine, feel free to go to the following webpage on the Defective Crashworthiness Lawsuits.

Automobile Accident Crashworthiness Defective Air Bag Lawsuits and Fatal Automobile Collision Crashworthiness Defective Air Bag Lawsuits (Automobile Defective Airbag Product Liability Lawsuits)

Defective Air Bag Claims may arise out of serious automobile accidents where a defective air bag was the cause of death or a catastrophic injury.  An air bag injury may result when an air bag deploys at low impact or no impact. The defective airbag will deploy at tremendous force which is necessary to protect passengers from  forward momentum of a high-speed crash. However, if the air bag deploys At low speed, deployment can snap the head and neck back severely, resulting in spinal damage, brain injury and soft tissue damage. Facial lacerations and even broken bones in the face are also common. Sometimes air bags fail to deploy when they should, resulting in chest, head, face and or neck injury as the body is propelled against the dashboard, windshield or seatback. For more information on Defective Airbag Fatal Crash Lawsuits and Defective Airbag Ejection Crash Lawsuits, please go to the following web page on Defective Airbag Lawsuits.

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As a Texas Defective Seat Belt Fatal Accident Lawyer, Jason Coomer, works on Texas Defective Seatbelt Lawsuits involving serious injuries and fatal automobile collisions all over the State of Texas and throughout the United States.  In working on Texas Fatal Seatbelt Crash Law Suits, Jason Coomer commonly works with other Texas Fatal Defective Seat Belt Rollover Accident Lawyers throughout Texas and the United States including Houston Fatal Defective Safety Belt Collision Lawyers, Dallas Fatal Defective Seat Belt Rollover Lawyers, El Paso Defective Safety Restraint Fatal Accident Lawyers, and San Antonio Defective Safety Belt Design Serious Burn and Death Accident Lawyers.

In working with other Defective Crashworthiness Automobile Accident Lawyers, he is able to more efficiently investigate and litigate catastrophic injury and fatal SUV crash, fatal car wreck, deadly truck collision, one car accident, and other deadly vehicle wreck lawsuits that are caused by defective seatbelts or other defective automobile designs or parts.  

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As a Texas Fatal Rollover Ejection Crash, Jason Coomer, works on Fatal Rollover Ejection Crash Lawsuits and Rollover Crash Lawsuits all over the State of Texas and throughout the United States.  In working on Texas Fatal Rollover Ejection Crash Law Suits, Jason Coomer commonly works with other Texas Fatal Rollover Ejection Crash Lawyers throughout Texas and the United States including Houston Fatal Rollover Ejection Crash Lawyers, Dallas Fatal Rollover Ejection Crash Roof Collapse Lawyers, El Paso SUV Fatal Rollover Ejection Crash Lawyers, and San Antonio Fatal Rollover Ejection Accident Lawyers.  In working with other Defective Crashworthiness Fatal Crash Rollover Lawyers, he is able to more efficiently investigate and litigate catastrophic injury and fatal automobile crash and deadly car wreck lawsuits that are caused by defective automobile design or parts.  

Texas Fatal Crash Rollover lawyer, Jason S. Coomer, helps individuals that have been seriously injured and the families of people that have been killed as a result of defective airbags, defective rollover design, defective roof design, defective safety restraint design, defective steering column design, or other a defective crashworthiness automobile design or part.  If you have a question about a fatal rollover crash lawsuit or a SUV rollover crash roof collapse lawsuit, contact Austin Texas Fatal Ejection Rollover Crash Lawyer Jason Coomer.

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