The safety of a vehicle is often on the forefront of consumer minds. But while the crashworthiness of a car is important, it can be difficult to distinguish safe designs, protective auto products and an overall product that will safeguard even the most precious vehicle cargo.
The design and materials comprising a car’s seat and seatback is imperative to creating a safer environment, especially when a Texas car accident occurs.
Defects in a vehicle’s seatback can cause serious injuries during an accident, preventing seatbelts and air bags from providing adequate protection and provoking head injuries, neck injuries and spine inquires. While high speeds can prove to be a dangerous situation should seatbacks fail, even low speed accidents, where the mechanism holding a seatback up fails, can prove to be fatal and life-altering.
The impact endured by the rear of a seat during a collision should cause manufacturers to ensure the safety of consumers by designing and manufacturing quality seat equipment that can withstand the force experienced during an accident.
A seatback that falls, not-withstanding the impact of a collision, can leave drivers struggling to reach the gas and brake pedals and severely impair the ability to see and react to additional impact. While airbags and seatbelts protect drivers and passengers from the front, preventing auto ejection and keeping occupants intact, the seatbacks in a vehicle are meant to protect and safeguard passengers from behind.
In addition to affecting the way a seatbelt operates and the protective efforts of air bags, faulty seatbacks can also affect the safety of children strapped into safety equipment, like safety seats, car seats and booster seats. A failed seatback can deem child safety equipment useless despite the promotion and confidence placed in child restraints.
Defective seatbacks can fail drivers and passengers for a variety of reasons, from flimsy design to low quality materials comprising such an important piece of equipment in vehicles. The failure of a seatback during a car accident can often throw occupants into the backseat region of the vehicle or provoke ejection by eliminating the stability that should be provided by a quality seat during a crash, collision or rollover accident.
When they fail, the back of a vehicles seats can collapse, greatly reducing the protection of seatbelts and affecting other occupants in the rear of the vehicle. Without a secured seatbelt, passengers and drivers whose seats have collapsed are at a greater risk for dangerous and fatal ejection from the vehicle.
If you or someone you love has been seriously injured or killed because of seatback failure of a vehicle, which may have resulted in ejection or the loss of driver control over a vehicle, call our product liability lawyers located in Waco, Temple, Killeen and statewide Texas for a free consultation today.
Our experienced product liability lawyers, professional medical consultants, private investigative team and caring staff will help you uncover answers to some of the baffling questions associated with your accident while seeking just compensation for your injuries and loss. We care. We can help.