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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.

Lieff Cabraser represents catastrophically injured individuals in fuel tank explosion cases involving Kia Sportage vehicles.

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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Any vehicle can roll in a crash, but the problem is worse in some SUVs and pickups than others. About 25 percent of occupant deaths in crashes of cars and minivans involve rolling over. For SUVs, this proportion jumps to 59 percent.
 

ROLLOVER RESOURCES

SUV Safety Overview

Rollover Accidents & Roof Safety

Rollover Ratings

Government Resources
 

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About Lieff Cabraser

Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, LLP, is a national plaintiffs' law firm of over 50 lawyers with offices in San Francisco, New York and Nashville. Our attorneys are recognized for the successful prosecution of lawsuits involving deaths, personal injuries and property damage due to defective products, including dangerous and defective vehicles.

In 2007, in Mraz v. DaimlerChrysler, Lieff Cabraser attorneys, with local co-counsel, obtained the fourth-largest verdict in California for the year. At trial, plaintiffs showed that a defective transmission was responsible for making a Dodge Dakota pickup shift into reverse and run over Richard Mraz.

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