Various Personal Injury Cases Where A Motor Vehicle Seriously Injured A Pedestrian In A Crosswalk

Do you think you're safe by adhering to the rules and using a crosswalk to cross the street

? You you make sure that you cross a street at a marked crosswalk. If only there were a guarantee that drivers would keep to the rules and give pedestrians in a crosswalk the right of way. It is not unusual for attorneys who help victims of motor vehicle accidents to be approached by pedestrians struck by an automobile as they were crossing the street in a marked crosswalk. When a vehicular accident deals with a pedestrian the injuries are oftentimes considerable and have disastrous and irreversible consequences. Beneath we go over documented examples concerning pedestrian injuries.

Case 1: In this instance a bus hit a pedestrian as she was crossing the street in a crosswalk. The victim was a 50 year old woman on her way to buy some gives for her grandchildren. As she was on her way to a nearby store she had a shpping cart in front of her. The bus hit her and then continued to run her over. The driver did not even realize she had hit a shopping cart and had run over the pedestrian until passengers commenced yelling for her to stop the bus. The pedestrian sustained several fractures that included fractures to her rib, her spine and her pelvis. The woman will need hip replacement surgery. The law firm that handled this case reported that they procured a settlement of $1,250,000 for the victim.

Case 2: This case concerned the driver of a rental car who was speeding while in a high traffic area of a large urban city. There were a lot of pedestrians in the vicinity. The driver ran a red light and ended up striking a van. This forced the van into a crosswalk which was being crossed by a pedestrian. The pedestrian, a 25 year old man, sustained a spinal cord fracture injury that left him with total paralysis from the chest down.

The law firm that hekped the pedestrian started a lawsuit against both the driver and the company that rented the car to the driver. The claim went to trial with a judge upholding $20.3 million of the larger jury verdict. This amount was supposed to cover medical expenses (for the amount incurred up to the trial and for the amount for the care he will need in the future), the pedestrians loss of earning capacity, and past and future pain and suffering.

Case 3: In this instance the report indicated that as a school bus made a left turn the driver failed to yield the right of way to a pedestrian. In the course of making the turn the bus ran over a pedestrians foot. The pedestrian was a 54 year old woman walking across an intersection in a designated crosswalk. The driver of the bus was ignorant of what had transpired. It took the efforts of witnesses getting the drivers attention and getting the driver to go into reverse so that the wheel of the bus would release the pedestrians foot. The pedestrian sustained several considerable injuries to her foot and leg. The pedestrian ended up needing several surgeries to both her foot and her leg. In the end, however, she lost the leg to a below the knee amputation following which she experienced continual phantom pain. The report of this matter by the law firm that handled it indicated that they took the case to trial and attained a jury verdict for $5.9 Million on behalf of the pedestrian.

The case above show that many cases take place in locations with significant pedestrian traffic. The vehicles can be cars, buses, even trucks. The victims can be young, middle aged or elderly. They can be male and they can be female.

The case, though, all appear to share two basic things. First, crosswalks are no assurance of safety. Drivers are easily distracted. In the first claim above the driver did not even comprehend that she had caused an accident and had run over a person. In the second claim the driver was speeding and failed to stop for a red light. In the third lawsuit witnesses had to get the driver to reverse the vehicle in order to release the pedestrians foot pinned under the vehicle. Victims of pedestrian injuries of the type highlighted in these lawsuits should seek out the assistance of a highly skilled and experienced motor vehicle accident lawyer.

by: Joseph Hernandez

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