How A Casey Gerry Auto Accident Lawyer In San Diego Can Help

Casey Gerry’s car accident experience and representative cases

Automotive crashes can be caused by a variety of factors, including intoxication, negligence and gross misconduct on the part of other drivers, excessive speed, dangerous roadway conditions, unsafe vehicle design, inadequate safety equipment, and failure of automotive parts. As a full-service plaintiff’s law firm, Casey Gerry has extensive experience not only with automotive crashes, but with highway design cases, negligence and misconduct, and product liability. The firm’s deep and broad experience enables its auto collision attorneys to deal successfully with every kind of automotive collision. Here are some of our recent cases:

Defective safety equipment

Casey Gerry San Diego auto accident lawyers recently brought an action against KIA Motors Corporation for a crash in which both seats and seatbelts failed in a KIA vehicle, causing the deaths of two young people. The KIA vehicle, driven on I-8 by the young couple, was hit a glancing blow in the rear end by a tractor trailer. Although the vehicles’ speeds and the force of the impact were relatively minor, the seats in the Kia Vehicle buckled and collapsed backward. The collapse of the driver’s seat caused him to fall backward, losing contact with the pedals and the steering wheel. Out of control, the vehicle lurched to the shoulder and then rolled over. The KIA’s seatbelts were constructed in a design known for over 15 years to be dangerous, and at impact they tore from their mounts. Without seatbelts restraining them, the young couple was partially ejected during the rollover, and died from injuries suffered on impact. Their deaths were a direct result of the defective vehicle occupant protection system.

Casey Gerry auto accident attorneys were able to show in KIA’s own documents that they had violated their own internal standards. Our lawyers have found that very often manufacturers will create a sufficiently high standard of safety for themselves, but then fail to meet it, resulting in serious injury or death to users of the vehicles. The families of the victims received appropriate and substantial compensation for their losses.

SUV rollover

Over the last 20 years, Casey Gerry SUV rollover attorneys have litigated a large number of cases against manufacturers of SUVs and light trucks. Casey Gerry represented several families for the wrongful death of three young men, all married, who were killed when their Toyota 4-Runner went out of control and flipped over. Casey Gerry worked with experts who examined the stability and maneuverability of the vehicle, and with their testimony we were able to establish that the 4-Runner’s design created a high risk of serious injury or death to the occupants.

Fatal negligence

Casey Gerry represented three adult children in an action against Sears for the death of their mother caused by the defective installation of a tire. Two sisters, their husbands and children, and their mother were traveling when the left rear tire of the vehicle blew out. The car veered into the median, and then rolled over. The grandmother was thrown from the car, and sustained injuries which caused her death. Two young children were also thrown from the vehicle, and sustained significant injuries while suffering post traumatic stress disorder from seeing their grandmother killed.

Four new tires had been purchased and installed at Sears less than two weeks before the accident. Casey Gerry’s tire expert determined that although the tire was sound when sold, a careless installation caused a large cut in the tire carcass. When the family’s vehicle left the installation bay it was a disaster waiting to happen. As the vehicle was traveling at highway speed, the cut spread, the tire tore away from the rim and deflated instantaneously. Casey Gerry’s auto accident lawyer established that the installer had twice before cut a tire while installing it, that Sears was aware of this, and had continued to allow him to work. The settlement took into account the children’s injuries, and the family’s loss of a dear and valued mother and grandmother.