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Kia Sportage SUV Rollover Accidents

In 2005, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety issued a report finding that the four-door, two-wheel drive Kia Sportage made between 1999 and 2002 had the second highest rate of driver death of the 47 SUVs profiled in the study. The four-door, four-wheel drive Sportage had the sixth highest death rate.

If you or a family member have been injured in a Kia Sportage rollover accident, click here to contact a personal injury attorney at the national plaintiffs' law firm of Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, LLP, for a free, no-obligation review of your case.

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SUV Rollover Dangers

A number of potential safety issues and vehicle defects can contribute to the occurance of SUV rollovers and lead to serious injury or death in the event of a rollover accident. Potential safety issues include:

The vehicle is defective in its handling and stability because it is top-heavy and prone to heavy oversteering by drivers, making a rollover accident likely;
The vehicle is equipped with defective door latches that are too weak to hold the doors shut in a rollover accident, causing passengers to be ejected from these vehicles;
The roof-strength of the SUV is deficient, resulting in a collapse of the roof in a rollover accident;
The vehicle is not equipped with laminated safety glass which would help prevent passengers from being ejected in SUV rollovers; and
The seat belts are defective because they do not automatically retract and tighten during an accident.

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