Car Accident With Child Injury – Car Accidents with children are entirely different from car accidents to adults.
What kind of differences are there?
A child’s height within the interior compartment; proximity to air bag deployment; length of travel from the initial impact to the second impact with the interior of the car. Just to name a few.
Children may reasonably look to parents as if they are securely fastened into their seats by
the seatbelt but due to the extreme forces of deceleration, and the angle of impact, it might happen that children may slip out from under their restraints or otherwise become ejected.
Rollover accidents may result in ejection of children, differently from adults.
Children may be harmed by contact with half opened windows in a collision.
Child car seats may be improperly installed, poorly designed, belted inadequately.
Sometimes infant car seats or baby seats have recall notices that do not come to the attention of the purchaser, or the parent uses a hand me down car seat supplied by a nice and well intentioned relative or family friend and that car seat has not been updated to proper safety specifications.
Child safety locks on doors and windows may not engage or may be disabled by rental car companies.
Airbags in cars that have been stolen and found, or have been in big accidents
and have had to be repaired may have improper reinstallation of the air bag or the sensor could have been damaged so that the child’s airbag does not deploy or open when it is supposed to. Or, the airbag opens when it is not supposed to.
Extra care needs to be taken when a car accident happens and a child is a passenger even if the child is not injured. Children may leave the vehicle and go to the rear of the car to look at the damage and may be hit by other drivers who are trying to avoid the stopped vehicle that is obstructing the roadway.
There are different standards of legal responsibility and different laws, rules and regulation that may be involved even in an identical kind of accident. Two private cars colliding may have very different legal consequences and monetary awards from a collision between a private vehicle and a mass transit, government, commercial vehicle.
These different legal responsibilities are important to know about, and there may be different responsibilities in a car accident depending upon whether a child is in day care, on a school field trip, a juvenile care and rehab facility, upon the identity of the employer, driver, operator, owner.
If your child has not been injured in an accident due to the negligence of a third party, whether in similar circumstances to those mentioned here or not, you can find out about your legal rights and free consultation.
