| If you watch the news on a regular basis, you | | | | serious head or neck trauma for passengers. |
| are probably used to hearing about accidents | | | | These injuries are very dangerous injuries and can |
| caused by automotive defects and the string of | | | | cause spinal injuries, brain damage, paralysis, |
| manufacturer recalls that generally follow. | | | | broken bones, or even death. There are other |
| Everything from floor mats to brake systems | | | | less obvious risks, too. A roof collapse will |
| have been the subject of frantic recalls. Some of | | | | generally cause the vehicle's windows and |
| these manufacturing problems are particularly | | | | windshield to shatter and people can easily suffer |
| dangerous. For example, if the vertical support | | | | deep cuts from the flying shards of glass that |
| beams that attach a vehicle's roof to its body are | | | | result. If it is difficult for emergency workers to |
| defective, a rollover accident can cause the roof | | | | get them out of the wreckage, blood loss poses |
| to violently collapse down on passengers in the | | | | a grave threat. The outward force of a collapsing |
| cabin. Recently, cases of roof collapse have | | | | roof can also cause the vehicle's doors to open, |
| resulted in large manufacturer settlement | | | | increasing the risk that someone could be ejected |
| payments to victims of defects. | | | | from the car. |
| The effects of most roof and support beam | | | | While all car accidents are very dangerous, |
| defects go unnoticed until it is too late. When a | | | | automotive defects unnecessarily increase the |
| vehicle is involved in a rollover accident, if the | | | | risk that someone will be seriously hurt or killed. If |
| frame structure fails, the roof will collapse and the | | | | you think that a negligently manufactured |
| passenger cabin will be crushed. If this happens, it | | | | component caused you or a loved one to suffer |
| can cause extremely serious injuries, even in a | | | | injuries during an accident, you may want to |
| situation where a properly seatbelt-secured | | | | consider pursuing legal action seeking |
| passenger might have escaped with minor bumps | | | | compensation for damages. Even if you were not |
| and bruises had the structural integrity of the roof | | | | seriously injured, you owe it to other people |
| been preserved. | | | | driving the same vehicle to point out potentially |
| The most obvious risk in a roof collapse situation | | | | dangerous defects. |
| is that the crushing of the cabin-space will cause | | | | |