The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) reports that between the years 1998 and 2008, 1,564 people have died in school bus accidents. That means an average of 142 school transportation fatalities occur each year in the United States. Nearly 72 percent of the fatally injured victims were occupants of other vehicles, 20 percent of the deaths involved non-vehicle occupants, such as bicyclists and pedestrians, and 8 percent of the victims were in a school bus.
Several children sustained minor injuries in a recent Arizona school bus crash. According to reports, a school bus rolled over on Interstate 191 near Interstate 40 in Chambers. Of the 14 occupants of the school bus, many children sustained non life-threatening injuries such as cuts and bruises. It is unclear at this time what caused school bus to roll over. It is also not clear how many of the young victims were hospitalized after the accident.
Schools, transportation companies and bus drivers must provide the utmost standard of care to their passengers. Whenever a bus crash occurs, an investigation will be needed to determine if driver negligence, vehicle maintenance, product defects, or a dangerous roadway caused the accident. Victims and the families of bus accident victims would be well-advised to speak to a skilled Arizona personal injury attorney regarding their legal rights and options. Compensation may be available for medical expenses, rehabilitation and other damages sustained as a result of the crash.
The Phoenix school bus accident attorneys at The Breyer Law Offices, P.C. have successfully represented numerous victims of bus accidents. These can be complicated cases because they often involve extensive investigations and multiple parties. If you or a loved one has been injured in an Arizona bus crash, please call us at 602-978-6400 to discuss your case.
It can be challenging finding a top bus accident injury lawyer in Phoenix or elsewhere in Arizona. So many lawyers claim to be experienced personal injury lawyers that often someone with a severe bus accident injury does not know where to go. Legally, anyone can handle a personal injury case. Anyone who has gone to law school and who has passed the State Bar of Arizona can claim that they know how to handle a personal injury claim. An Arizona lawyer that has only been involved in one personal injury case in his or her career can claim to be an experienced personal injury attorney.
The reality is that someone who has been seriously injured in a bus accident of any type needs to contact the best bus accident lawyer that they can find in the State of Arizona. It is not enough to find a neighborhood lawyer but more important that someone who has had a life changing injury or who has lost a loved one get advice they can count on from a straight shooter who has been there and tried the cases and fought for the people who have been seriously injured.
When someone is seriously hurt in a bus accident, that person needs to get in touch with the best bus accident lawyer that can be found in Arizona. Getting just any lawyer to represent a person who has had a life changing injury or who lost a loved one in a bus accident can be a terrible mistake. It is almost always best in such cases to seek out a knowledgeable bus accident trial lawyer who will talk straight with you, letting you know not only the strengths but also the weaknesses in your potential bus accident claim.
At Breyer Law Offices, we have fought numerous cases before juries, helping personal injury victims of bus accidents and other accidents in which someone else was at fault to recover compensation for their injuries. If you would like more information about a potential bus accident claim, or about any other personal injury situation, please do not hesitate to give us a call.
The grief felt by the families of those Chinese tourists killed in the recent Arizona bus crash near the Hoover Dam must only get worse as six bodies of those who were wrongfully killed in this bus accident, aged from 15 to 56, were sent back to China.
The report goes on to raise some of the legal concerns around the bus crash. For those who would like to see justice for those wrongful deaths, they will have to wait until 2010 for the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) to issue its findings on the causes of the bus accident.
The fact that this report will be so long in coming should raise a red flag for anyone familiar with the personal injury system, and especially to personal injury lawyers who could bring claims for the families of those who died or were seriously injured. As the families in China almost certainly know nothing about American personal injury laws, it is an added tragedy that many legitimate claims may fall away due to the missing of important deadlines. This means that even if, as the initial evidence shows, the bus accident was entirely preventable and caused by negligence, these families will lose all right to file claims for personal injury.
We encourage those with severe injuries or families of those who have wrongfully died in an Arizona bus accident to immediately contact Breyer Law Offices or any other experienced Arizona bus accident attorney to help. We or other experienced personal injury attorneys will be able to tell injured parties whether or not there is a case, so that they can make a decision on whether to file suit. In such cases as the bus accident above, we believe those affected should contact an attorney from Arizona to deal with a case that most likely must be filed in an Arizona court.
We feel so strongly that people should have the necessary information before making a decision that we often have had to bring in translators to communicate with potential clients. When it comes to communication with clients, like other skilled Arizona auto accident lawyers, we are able to easily accommodate those who speak English and Spanish. Even so, we have had many other clients who spoke neither of these tongues, and were able to provide them with the necessary information to enable them to make the best decision on how, or even if, they should pursue their legal rights.
