Some devastating accidents and vehicle rollover accidents can cause what are known as “roof crush” accidents. This involves failure and displacement of the automobile’s roof into the passenger compartment, causing serious injuries to the occupants of the vehicle. Contact a personal injury lawyer if you or a loved one has been involved in a roof crush accident.

Types of Injuries

Roof crush accidents cause a variety of injuries, ranging from sprains, bruises, cuts, lacerations to traumatic head/spine injuries and death.

Depending on the severity of the accident, roof crush accidents cause:

• Sprains/cuts, disfigurement
• Fractures/broken/shattered bones
• Traumatic brain/head injuries
• Spinal damage
• Neck injuries
• Paralysis

How Roof Crush Accidents Cause Injuries 

Apart from head-on collisions, rollover accidents are considered to be the most serious types of vehicular accidents. Thousands of deaths and serious injuries occur every year as a result of such accidents. As compared to other vehicles, SUVs, ATVs, pick-up and other trucks are more prone to rollover accidents, due to their unstable center of gravity. All vehicles are required to have a certain standard roof strength, but unfortunately, with SUVs and other such vehicles, these standards may not always be followed, resulting in serious consequences. Roof crush accidents may result in full/partial ejection of passengers from the vehicle as spaces are created in the roof structure due to collapse. This could also happen due to broken or collapsed windows and body structure of the vehicle.

Crash-worthiness tests are conducted on vehicles during design and manufacturing stage, and are supposed to minimize the effects of collisions. When the roof structure is weak or inadequate, the roof of the vehicle crushes down into the interior of the vehicle, reducing the survival space inside. Though car roofs are designed to remain stable even in multiple rollovers, the sad fact is that roof crush accidents have been on the increase since the 1970s, either due to manufacturing or design flaws.

How We Can Assist

When such accidents occur, the vehicle has to be preserved in the same condition so that fault can be determined by car crash specialists and automobile experts. Find a personal injury lawyer with specific experience in such cases to assist you to file a compensation claim.

Our car accident lawyers can work with a team of such experts to establish fault clearly, along with documentary proof, photographic/CCTV camera footage, eyewitness testimony, etc.

The fault may lie with multiple entities or agencies and it can pose a challenge even to experienced personal injury lawyers to unravel the chain of liability. However, our serious injury lawyers who deal exclusively with personal injury claims can conduct independent investigations into the crash and compile a robust claim for compensation.

Victims are entitled to seek compensation for medical expenses, rehabilitation, continued care, disability/disfigurement, loss of wages/career/income, pain and suffering etc. In the case of  wrongful death families of victims can claim compensation. Our accident injury lawyers available 24×7 can represent victims in all negotiations with insurers and at trial to ensure that their rights are protected at all times, till full and satisfactory settlement is reached.

If you, your family or a friend has been injured in an accident, please feel free to speak to one of our injury lawyers for a free consultation about how we are able to assist in making a personal injury claim. We consult in all cities across Ontario with a no win no fee guarantee. Our personal injury lawyers have helped victims secure millions of dollars in personal injury cases. Call us Toll Free On our 24/7 Injury Hotline: 1 – 844 495 7333 or Text a Personal Injury ‎Lawyer 24/7 and get instant help. (416 931 5015)