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Defective Auto Glass and Occupant Ejection
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NHTSA — the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration — reports that drivers and passengers who are fully or partially ejected from their car, truck or SUV are three times more likely to die in an automobile accident than those who were restrained inside the vehicle.
Defective auto glass can play a major role in allowing occupant ejection in auto collisions and rollover accidents. In combination with a seat, seat belt or air bag failure, an auto glass defect can turn a survivable accident into a fatal disaster.
The technology has been available since the 1950s to limit occupant injury or death by using laminated glass in all vehicle windows. Most vehicle windshields are now required by federal statute to be made of laminated glass. Upon impact, the glass may break, but the laminate material is designed to keep the occupant in the vehicle.
While a laminated glass windshield may help prevent occupant ejection in rear-end or head-on collisions, it does little to protect drivers and passengers in other scenarios, largely because the big automakers refuse to make side windows out of laminated glass. Apparently, avoiding the small additional cost of doing so is more important than the devastation families suffer when a loved one dies needlessly.
The Texas law firm of Miller, Curtis & Weisbrod is recognized at a national level as a leader in the fight to hold the auto industry to account for the accidents, injuries and wrongful deaths that can occur as a result of corporate negligence or greed. We believe that no minor cost savings should ever take priority over the lives of American consumers. Our capable attorneys welcome the opportunity to take on automakers who continue use dangerous or defective auto glass.
If you were injured or a loved one died in an accident and you believe unsafe or defective auto glass is at least partly to blame, we invite you to contact our Dallas offices to discuss your case in a free consultation with an experienced, board-certified personal injury trial lawyer.
