Personal Injury Cases in Dallas Texas
Car Accidents
The individual facts of these types of cases are almost without number. They may involve single or multiple vehicles, and include, owners, permissive users of a motor vehicle, licensed, unlicensed, adult or underage, insured or uninsured/underinsured, sober or intoxicated on alcohol or drugs, rage drivers or just plain competent or incompetent drivers.
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Automobile Collision
In addition to the usual two vehicle collisions of all types, a motor vehicle collision may involve a single vehicle or more than two vehicles. These cases involve anyone who is injured in their person and/or property such as drivers, passengers, and persons struck by a vehicle or the vehicle collision may involve damage to their property only.
Negligent Entrustment of a Motor Vehicle
These motor vehicle cases involve one vehicle or more, when the owner of the vehicle give permission for a person to operate it and the owner either knew or should have known the operator was not competent driver for one reason or another.
An example might be a vehicle owner providing the use of a vehicle to a family member or a friend who is not competent to drive or if allowed to drive would pose a hazard to others on the roadways. This may occur, when the operator is an unlicensed driver, a drug or alcohol abuser or even a reckless driver who has little regard for the welfare and safety of others or is prone to road rage or likes to race other vehicles on the roadways.
Interestingly these “permissive user” or “negligent entrustment” case do not require actual permission be given to an incompetent driver. Legal responsibility for allowing an incompetent driver to have the use of a motor vehicle through leaving the keys around, where it can be anticipated an incompetent driver may find them and use them to drive the vehicle is often enough to fix responsibility on the owner of a vehicle.
Truck Accidents
These cases involve one or more trucks of any size other than a pickup or SUV usually in collision with another vehicle, person and/or property such as drivers, passengers, and pedestrians and may involve injury to person or damage to property. They are highly complicated cases, and often involve out-of-state or even out of the country drivers, employers, and/or one or more insurance companies, if the truck consists of a tractor and a trailer. There can be issues of government regulation, state and federal, which requires knowledge of these rules, regulations and statutes.
Wheel-off or Loss-of-Tread Cases
These cases usually involve a motor vehicle or trailer that loses a wheel, tire, tread or combination of the three which in turn causes an accident that results in personal injury and/or property damage. An excellent example of this type of case involved an eighteen wheeler tractor trailer traveling on a major highway that lost an entire wheel assembly due to faulty mechanical work. Once the wheel and tire assembly fractured, it rolled free down the highway at a high rate of speed slamming into a vehicle traveling in the opposite direction, causing serious brain damage and other injuries to the driver and total loss of the vehicle.
Another example involved a two wheel tow dolly rented from a commercial operation to transport another vehicle from one place to another along the highway. As a result of a failure to properly torque a wheel and tire assembly, it came lose from grinding out the lug holes of the wheel until it seperated from the tow dolly and rolled at a high rate of speed under a vehicle traveling in the same direction as the tow dolly and truck hauling it. It caused the trailing vehicle to go out of control, spin sideways and then tumble multiple times down the highway with serious injury to the arm of the driver. The vehicle is pictured to the right.
All-Terrain or Recreational Vehicle
These cases usually involve three or four wheel off road vehicles intended for pleasure but often result in injury to the operator as a result of collision with another recreational vehicle; coming into contact with hazards of one sort or another existing on the property where the vehicle is being operated; but they can and often do involve injury to a passenger on the vehicle. Much depends on where the accident occurs.
