Your Indiana SUV rollover accident attorney fights for your Indiana 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 Indiana SUV rollover accident lawyer knows how to hold accountable the manufacturer whose design defects directly caused such accidents.

Individuals from Indiana who are involved in SUV rollover accidents may notify a skilled Indiana SUV rollover accident attorney in order to get full and just monetary recovery for their injury. A skilled Indiana SUV rollover accident attorney will gather all evidence and will hold accountable the person or persons whose negligence led to your accident. They may include the driver of another car or the maker of your SUV, whose design has deficiencies that can lead to an SUV rollover accident. Your Indiana SUV rollover accident attorney will seek compensation for your medical costs, lost wages and pain and suffering.

Numerous consumers in Indiana 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 Indiana, 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 Indiana 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 Indiana. Nevertheless, the Texas law firm does work with outside counsel and local counsel to litigate claims for Indiana as appropriate.