Car Fires

San Diego, California Car Fire and Burn Injury Attorneys

Any motor vehicle accident which does not cause serious bodily injuries or death to the vehicle occupants should not result in severe burn injuries as the result of a car or truck fire. The car or truck should be designed to protect the occupants in the crash, and protect the fuel system as well. Nevertheless, investigation of accidents involving post-collision fuel fed fires often shows that a design defect in the car's fuel system unreasonably increased the risk of fire. If you or someone in your family has suffered serious or fatal burn injuries in a car fire, contact The McClellan Law Firm in San Diego for a free consultation about your legal rights.

With a caseload limited to no more than 15 cases at a time, our attorneys are able to devote the attention a complex motor vehicle accident case requires in order to recover the full amount of the compensation you need to support a long period of disability, convalescence, and recovery. In burn injury cases, we also work closely with our clients so that the best possible treatment and rehabilitative therapy is available for you. Our carefully limited caseload allows us to emphasize client communication and accessibility while working intensively on both the liability and damages components of your case.

We treat car fire cases as automotive defects claims and proceed against the vehicle's manufacturer on a products liability theory. With the help of automotive design and engineering experts, we develop and present evidence to prove any one or more of the following facts relating to defective fuel systems:

• Improper fuel tank placement
• Defects in the gas tank filler neck
• Failure of the integrity of the fuel system
• Unreasonable defects causing the fuel system to leak
• Unreasonable defects causing fuel to siphon from an intact system

When the car fire was caused by gas or diesel fuel spilling or leaking after the impact, our attorneys can often show that a simple and inexpensive valve installed at any of several points of the fuel system would have prevented fluid from flowing from the tank to a rupture point.

Our ability to integrate products liability concepts and claims into the litigation of motor vehicle collision and rollover accidents can represent a powerful advantage in favor of our clients. For a free consultation about your case, contact an experienced personal injury lawyer at The McClellan Law Firm in San Diego.