Minnesota Organ Damage Attorney
TSR Injury Law has extensive experience with pedestrian accident lawsuits involving internal injuries and organ damage. Steve Terry, Chuck Slane, and Rich Ruohonen are skilled, aggressive personal injury lawyers and well-known for their ability to litigate complex medical cases, with settlements into the millions.
Call 612-362-0000 or submit our free consultation form. We will carefully investigate your case, hire experts, and determine how the accident occurred and if more than one party was at fault.
Pedestrian Statistics
Pedestrian accident statistics are staggering. Nearly 5,000 pedestrians are killed in pedestrian accidents each year and another 65,000 pedestrians are injured.
Many of the pedestrians accidents are caused by driver negligence. Driver negligence includes:
- Distracted driving
- Speeding
- Failure to yield the right of way to pedestrians at crosswalks
- Driving under the influence
- Careless turns at intersections
- Failure to come to a complete stop
Pedestrian Accidents
Many pedestrian accident injuries include organ damage caused by blunt force. Blunt force injury produces damage by direct impact, rapid deceleration, or rotational forces. Blunt force may compromise blood supply to organs and cause massive soft tissue injury to the abdominal wall. The organs most commonly involved in blunt force trauma are the spleen, liver, and kidneys.
20% of post-injury deaths are related to abdominal injuries associated with blunt or penetrating trauma. It is vital to check for abdominal injury following a pedestrian accident.
An interesting article by K. Tanno, published in Legal Medicine, reported that flat-front vehicles do more internal damage than bonnet-front vehicles. Pedestrians who were struck by the front of flat-front vehicles received the impact force to the torso, sustaining severe chest and abdominal injuries. The impact was more solid, direct force than rotational force.
Minnesota Organ Damage Attorney
If you have sustained life-changing internal injuries from a pedestrian accident, you need expert legal representation. Our partners have been named Super Lawyers many times by Minnesota Law & Politics. We recently received a 1.5 million dollar verdict in a pedestrian accident. Call 612-362-0000 or submit our contact form.
