subject: A Review Of Car Accidents With Teenage Drivers And Pedestrians Catastrophically Injured Or Killed [print this page] It is generally acknowledged that teenage drivers are at high risk of being involved in a motor vehicle accident. Even a quick review of very recent reports of motor vehicle accidents reveals that some of them involved teen drivers. Many of these cases involve pedestrian victims. In this article we look at 4 reported accidents. In 3 of the cases a person died.
In this report a motor vehicle accident was described in which the driver was a sixteen year old who held a junior license which permitted the teenager to drive up to 9:00 pm. The accident, however, took place on a weekday after 9:00 p.m. The reason why is unclear but somehow the driver lost control of the car. As a result the car hit another vehicle and then struck a pedestrian. The pedestrian, was waiting at a bust stop when the accident happened, died from his injuries. The victim was a 65 year old man. The driver was arrested. He was charged with speeding, manslaughter, and criminally negligent homicide.
In this report the driver of the motor vehicle was a drunk eighteen year old male. The accident happened on a Sunday morning at roughly 2:30. The greatest percentage of drunk driving accidents occur on weekend nights. The driver struck a male pedestrian, forty four years of age, who was crossing a road. Due to the accident he sustained serious head injuries. The driver was arrested. He was charged with driving while intoxicated and driving under the influence.
This accident involved an 18 year-old male driving in a residential area at around 8:00 a.m. on a Sunday morning. The accident happened when the teenaged driver lost control of his car. It turned forcefully and flipped, striking a pedestrian who had just gotten out of his car to take a pamphlet from the front yard of one of the homes. The home was for sale and had a sign and the pamphlets in the front yard. After hitting the pedestrian the car kept going until it was finally stopped by slamming into a tree in front of the house. The 67 year old male victim did not survive the accident.
In this report the description was of a 19 year old driver. The young woman was driving in a residential region. The driver hit a woman who was in front of her home tending to her flower bed. The car hit her with such force that the woman was thrown nearly 150 feet into a truck parked in her driveway. The teenaged driver did not stop at the scene of the accident. About 30 minutes after the accident the police located the young driver and placed her under arrest. They found her not far from the scene of the accident. She stated she was going back to the scene to admit she had caused the accident.
On a personal level it is sad to have to read about these accidents. Lives are destroyed in them. Victims can die or sustain significant injuries. Some are left with permanent disabilities. The families of the victims also suffer a great loss. Even the teenage drivers life is changed forever. Sometimes they suffer the rest of their lives from having to know what they did. Sometimes they lose their freedom.
In these circumstances an experienced and skilled attorney can assist the victims and their families to make sure that any potential claim(s) are completely explored.
