SUV Crashes

San Diego, California SUV Accident Attorneys

The McClellan Law Firm in San Diego enjoys a national reputation for excellence in motor vehicle accident litigation, especially in cases with questions venturing beyond the negligence issues usually encountered in highway accidents. In recent years, our success in this field has focused on recovering damages in personal injury and wrongful death claims resulting from single-vehicle SUV and pickup truck accident cases. Contact a lawyer at our firm to learn about your legal options if you need help in an accident involving a sport utility vehicle of any make or model.

Accidents involving SUVs and other top-heavy vehicles have a distinctive fact pattern that often points to design or manufacturing defects that contributed to the driver's loss of control of the vehicle. Unfortunately for the victims of these accidents, the injuries characteristic of SUV rollovers are very often catastrophic or fatal. When an SUV or pickup truck flips and rolls, there are usually multiple points of impact between the roof and the pavement. The greater crushing impact typically occurs when the side of the roof opposite to the side that rolled strikes the road.

Our experience with the investigation and presentation of damages claims in SUV accident litigation can help you recover substantial damages for a disabling injury or accidental death in cases involving any of the following characteristics:

• Roof collapse injuries or fatalities
• Ejection from the vehicle due to failure of seatbelts or door latches
• Rear tire tread or belt separation resulting in the driver's initial loss or control
• Poor overall crashworthiness
• Post-collision fuel-fed fire injuries or fatalities
• Lack of electronic stability control to help compensate for the vehicle's inherent instability under certain conditions

San Diego personal injury attorney Craig McClellan won the first jury verdict in a Ford Explorer rollover accident trial in 2004, and since then our firm has won or settled many SUV accident cases in Southern California and around the United States. For a free consultation about our ability to represent you effectively in an accident that has severely affected your family, contact us in San Diego.