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- SEAT BELT DEFECTS
Florida Defective Seatbelt Attorney
Seat belts should be your first line of defense against
injury in most motor vehicle accidents. Seat-belts are
designed to keep you safe and secure inside the vehicle
at all times, particularly during an accident, but this
isn't always the case. Sometimes during a high impact
accident, seatbelts can unlatch and allow a passenger
to be tossed about the inside of the vehicle without any
protection, or potentially ejected from the car or truck.
When a seatbelt fails in a
serious accident the injuries are often catastrophic and
include brain injury and spinal cord damage that may
result in paralysis and possibly wrongful death.
Seatbelt Failure - Hold the Auto Company Liable
It's undeniable that seatbelts have saved thousands of lives. Because of mandatory
seatbelt laws, more people are now buckling up compared to years past. The upside is
that more people are reaping the safety benefits of properly designed and functioning
equipment. Another consequence of increased seatbelt use is that more seatbelt design
flaws are becoming exposed. The most common design defects and failures involve
seat belt buckles unintentionally unlatch during a collision, shoulder belts that allow
too much slack (window shade seatbelt design), shoulder belt retractors that fail to
hold under load, automatic or door mounted seatbelts that kill and injure when the door
opens during a crash, shoulder-only belt strangulations and neck injuries, and
dangerous lap-only backseat belts.
Contact a Law Firm with Experience Pursuing Justice against the Major Auto
Manufacturers
At the Butler Law Group in Jacksonville and Orlando, Florida we have handled numerous
cases involving defective seat belts against many of the major auto makers. We work
with nationally recognized automotive design experts, engineers, and restraint system
experts, we identify what led to a parts failure, why it occurred, and how it was causally
related to the injuries suffered by our client.
Level the playing field - contact Florida attorney Howard G. Butler, Esq. Whether you
live in Jacksonville, Orlando, Daytona Beach, Lake City, Gainesville, Pensacola, Panama
City, Tallahassee, or anywhere else in Florida, our attorneys are available to meet with
you to discuss your motor vehicle defect case.
If you or a loved one was injured or killed in a car or truck accident, and you believe a
seatbelt failure was the cause, please contact us for a free consultation about your
case.
Topics related to seatbelt failure include rollover accidents, roof crush accidents,
automotive defects and catastrophic injuries.
