Your Missouri SUV rollover accident attorney fights for your Missouri rights

SUV rollover accidents have constituted Missouri's and this nation's fastest growing cause of traffic deaths in recent years. Largely because of manufacturer design negligence, SUVs are highly likely to roll over, and if they land upside down, their roofs tend to crumble, crushing passengers. These roof crush calamities occur because an SUV is not equipped with structural side supports. An SUV design also leads to the SUV rollover accident in the first place. Though SUVs are sold with safety features expected, they are often in fact among the most risky autos on this country's streets and freeways.

When roof-crush happens in an SUV rollover accident in Missouri, people 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 Missouri and elsewhere, such SUV rollover accidents can happen when an SUV makes a rapid movement to the side -- a movement which in most cases would not cause a smaller vehicle to roll over. However 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.

The SUV, or sport utility vehicle, may be among the most vulernable vehicles on this country's highways and streets. Yet the SUV has been very popular in recent years, with more than one fourth autos 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 Missouri 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 Missouri traffic accident is a head injury, particularly a brain injury. These injuries are tragically frequent among those persons 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 dibillating.

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