Continued from Part 1. Passenger vehicle collisions with heavy trucks often result in underride due to the trucks’ high ground clearances. Underride can shear away the top of a vehicle or crush the passenger compartment as the vehicle travels partway or fully under the truck. Particularly serious types of injury can result in a Texas collision with a heavy truck or school bus. For instance, severe head injuries, crush injuries, spinal cord injuries, lacerations, broken bones, and organ traumas might result from an underride crash.
In other collisions, our Houston collision injury lawyers caution that vehicle ejection might result. The U.S. NHTSA indicated in a 2008 report that 77% of vehicle occupants ejected during a crash suffer fatal injury.
Vehicle occupants who remain restrained by seatbelts in the enclosed vehicle could suffer serious lacerations, fractures, burn injuries, soft tissue traumas, or whiplash. Occupants unrestrained by seatbelts will tend to suffer more severe fractures, lacerations, soft tissue traumas, and sometimes crush injuries as they get thrown against the insides of the vehicle and against other occupants or cargo.
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