Your Arkansas SUV rollover accident attorney fights for your Arkansas rights

The SUV, or sport utility vehicle, may be among the most dangerous cars on America's highways and streets. Yet the SUV has been very popular in recent years, with more than 25 per cent cars sold being an SUV. Yet with this popularity has come a down side: SUVs frequently roll over, and in doing so, they frequently crush passengers when they turn over and their roof crushes. A skilled Arkansas SUV rollover accident lawyer knows how to hold accountable the manufacturer whose design defects directly caused such accidents.

One of the most severe injuries sustained in a major Arkansas car accident is a head injury, particularly a brain injury. These injuries are tragically frequent among those Americans who drive an SUV, or sport utility vehicle. That's due to the fact that SUV automobiles have a high propensity to roll over and turn upside down. As this SUV rollover happens, the SUV roof, which may be structurally unsafe, tends to crumple, seriously harming those inside. The ensuing head or brain injuries can be severe.

Numerous consumers in Arkansas have purchased an SUV because they believed it would be less dangerous than other vehicles on the street. Rather, the SUV is inherently risky to operate, largely due to a high center of gravity that precipitates disastrous SUV rollover accidents. Frequently such accidents happen with only a lone SUV involved. As a matter of fact, nearly 50 per cent of SUV driver fatalities in a recent year were in single-vehicle rollover accidents. In other cars, just 20 per cent of fatalities were a result of single-vehicle rollovers.

When roof-crush happens in an SUV rollover accident in Arkansas, persons inside the vehicle can be killed or severely hurt. Such a roof-crush often causes debilitating head or neck injuries, as well as back fractures that can cause paralysis. In Arkansas and elsewhere, such SUV rollover accidents can happen when an SUV makes a sudden movement to the side -- a movement which in most cases would not cause a smaller vehicle to roll over. But due to the SUV's high center of gravity, it frequently rolls over onto its roof, which then gives way, causing deaths and catastrophic injuries to those inside the vehicle.

DISCLAIMER: Jim S. Adler & Associates is not licensed in Arkansas. Nevertheless, the Texas law firm does work with outside counsel and local counsel to litigate claims for Arkansas as appropriate.