Crashworthiness is a key aspect of vehicle safety. Sometimes defective automotive products undermine a vehicle’s crashworthiness, making an accident more severe or even fatal, which may create the basis for an automotive product liability lawsuit. Our product liability attorneys in Pennsylvania and New Jersey believe that vehicle manufacturers should be held accountable for defective automotive products that cause injury and death.
Crashworthiness is defined as a vehicle’s ability to protect its occupants in an accident. It is not the same as vehicle safety. Crashworthiness, together with accident avoidance features such as an antilock breaking system (ABS) and good handling, determine a vehicle’s overall safety.
Typical crashworthiness features include air bags, crumple zones, seat belts, head rests, and interior padding. Crashworthiness features such as these are designed to prevent three things in the event of an accident:
Crashworthiness features are designed to protect a vehicle’s occupants in all foreseeable accident types: rollover accidents and impacts from any angle of the vehicle, including the side.
It is mandated by law that all cars include certain crashworthiness features. In the event that you are in a car accident and one or more of your vehicle’s crashworthiness features fails to function correctly, you may have an automotive product liability lawsuit and could pursue damages. Contact one of our product liability attorneys in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania or Pennsauken, New Jersey today if you have been injured or a loved one has been killed due to substandard crashworthiness.
It is the duty of auto manufacturers to make their vehicles crashworthy. Sometimes, however, manufacturers prioritize profits over safety, knowingly putting their customers at increased risk in a collision.
If you are in an accident and one or more aspects of the vehicle’s crashworthiness fail—the air bags fail to deploy, for example, or a fuel tank spontaneously explodes—the vehicle’s manufacturer may be liable, and you may be eligible for compensation for your injuries.
The automotive product liability attorneys at Shein Law Center can help you pursue a successful product liability lawsuit. We have offices in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Pennsauken, New Jersey to serve you, so contact us today.
At Shein Law Center our attorneys make it their mission to personally protect your rights in the face of the competing interests of insurance companies and vehicle manufacturers. Following an accident that leaves you injured, it’s not always obvious that the vehicle’s crashworthiness features failed. You might not realize that you have a product liability case on your hands.
The experienced automotive product liability lawyers at Shein Law Center will investigate your accident – enlisting the help of engineers and experts, if needed. Investigating and reconstructing the accident can be the key to showing that a feature of the vehicle was indeed defective, which is necessary for building a successful product liability lawsuit.
Defective automotive products can cause serious injury and death. Some vehicles been found to have systematic defects that maim or kill many people. Many product liability lawsuits have been mounted against both domestic and foreign auto manufacturers who put dangerous or defective vehicles on the market.
If a vehicle manufacturer puts hazardous products on the market, they should be held accountable. Retaining the services of an experienced automotive product liability lawyer, such as any one of the attorneys at the Shein Law Center offices in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Pennsauken, New Jersey is the first step to holding vehicle manufacturers liable for your injuries, or the injuries of your loved ones. Contact Shein Law Center today to schedule your case review.
You may have grounds for an automotive product liability lawsuit if your vehicle’s crashworthiness fails in an accident. Contact the lawyers at Shein Law Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania or Pennsauken, New Jersey today to discuss your case.
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