SUV Rollover Lawsuit
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SUV Rollover Lawsuit
What are SUV weak roofs?
A roof is part of the structural support of a vehicle and helps form part of the "survival space" in a vehicle should it be in a crash. If a roof crushes substantially during an accident, it intrudes into the occupant's "survival space", thus, causing head, neck and sometimes brain injuries.
What are the dangers associated with SUVs and their weak roofs?
According to NHTSA rollover statistics, SUV's have the highest rollover rate of any class of vehicles with more than 90 percent of the rollovers occurring after the vehicle leaves the pavement and travels onto the shoulder, into a ditch or a ravine.
On September 30, 2003, a Nebraska jury awarded approximately $19.5 million to Penny Shipler, a 36-year-old mother left paralyzed from the neck down in a 1997 accident. She was a passenger in a 1996 Chevrolet Blazer when the vehicle was involved in an accident and rolled over. The roof crushed on Ms. Shipler causing her to suffer a complete spinal cord injury.
Manufacturers have known for many years that roofs are too weak. Instead of making the roofs stronger, they rely on inadequate government standards that fail to require them conduct dynamic rollover tests on their roofs. This failures to build vehicles with sturdier roofs results in people continuing to be severely injured or killed in rollover accidents.
