Alexander Hawes, LLP: SUV Rollovers

Rollovers of SUVs, passenger vans and trucks kill 10,000 people and injure another 27,000 each year.

Rollovers occur in sports utility vehicles when a driver attempts to avoid an emergency with a quick steering movement or when a tire fails. All vehicles should stay on their wheels in an emergency.

In common emergencies, SUVs and 15 passenger vans because of their high center of gravity will "trip" over a front wheel or the rear wheels will break loose, causing the vehicle to go into over steer. In either case, the result is a total loss of control and a rollover.

Heavier is not better. Vehicle instability is aggravated by a full load of passengers, cargo, roof and bicycle racks.

Worse, roof pillars are not designed to prevent massive crushing that causes deaths, traumatic brain injuries and severed spinal cords, even for belted passengers.

Because pickup trucks, SUVs and passenger vans are not classified as "passenger vehicles" they are not required to meet all of the federal motor vehicle safety standards for crash worthiness imposed on cars and station wagons.

Juries have concluded that Ford Broncos and Ford Explorers have specific design defects that make them much more likely than other vehicles to roll over. Other trucks, vans and SUVs are just as dangerous.

If you or someone you know has been injured as the result of a vehicle rollover, a truck rollover, or an SUV rollover, immediately contact Alexander Hawes, LLP to protect your rights. Our goal is to take steps to preserve all the evidence and to prevent the wreckage from being lost or destroyed, otherwise a defective product case cannot be proven.

Click here to have your case evaluated at no charge to you or call us at 800.921.1776.

About SUV rollovers: "The driving public seems to think that these problems have "gone away." They have not. All of the millions of NEW SUVs being manufactured and sold, still have this tremendous tendency toward rollover accidents." [http://mb-soft.com/public/rollover.html]

About 15-person passenger van rollovers: "Fifteen-person passenger vans have a dubious safety history. Their side-impact protection and structural integrity in roll-overs has been questioned and they are said to handle poorly when fully loaded." [http://espn.go.com/gen/s/2001/0403/1166789.html]

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Alexander Hawes, LLP, an AV-rated trial firm, has concentrated its practice on the prosecution of complex Personal Injury and Class Action cases. The Firm represents individuals, governmental entities, businesses and institutional shareholders in auto accident cases, insurance claims, motorcycle injury accidents, and truck (and SUV) accidents. In addition, our law firm represents consumers in defective product, product liability, tort, negligence, mass tort, consumer, construction defect, investment fraud, price fixing and employment cases. The Firm is currently involved in complex cases pending in federal and state courts throughout the Unites States. The Firm is dedicated to quality representation of its clients and prides itself on aggressive advocacy of its clients' claims.