Florida Auto Accident Injury Attorneys

According to National Highway Traffic and Safety Administration (NHTSA) statistics, every year in the US, around 40,000 people are killed in car accidents. On top of that, nearly three and a half million are injured. Of these injury wrecks, more than half a million cases end up being serious life-changing events. Five people every hour, on average, are either killed or injured in a car crash in this country. For young adults and children, car crashes remain the top cause of accidental death.

What appear to be some critical factors driving auto accident injuries?

Alcohol and illegal drugs often play key causal roles in car crashes. Driver exhaustion, distraction, and inexperience can also be blamed. In particular, the increased usage of mobile phones over the past decade has clearly made Florida's highways and byways less safe. Even drivers who use hands-free headsets to carry on cell phone conversation are more distracted (and thus more accident-prone) than drivers who stay off cell phones.

Car accident injuries can also be traced to design and engineering flaws, both with respect to vehicles and the roads themselves.

It's also likely that in many Florida auto accident injury cases, a number of factors simultaneously converge. For instance, a fatigued driver may forget to wear his seatbelt; thus, when he's hit by a speeding car driven by a bunch of drunk teenagers, the injuries he receives wind up being far worse than they would have been, had he had been wearing his seatbelt.

The point is, assessing "cause and effect" in auto accident injuries is a complicated business. You need reliable legal representation to protect your rights and fight on your behalf in a court of law. Please spend some time to look over the resources we have compiled for you on our auto accident website, or contact an experienced Florida auto accident injury attorney at the law firm of Farah & Farah at 1.800.603.3640. Attorney Eddie Farah is a member of The American Association of Justice, The Florida Justice Association, and the Better Business Bureau.

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