PEDESTRIAN ACCIDENTS

Each year in California, thousands of innocent victims are seriously injured and even killed as they attempt to do something as simple as cross the street.  Pedestrian injury and fatalities from driver negligence is the cause of hundreds of traffic-related accidents each and every day in the United States.  An average of 110,000 pedestrians are injured every year in the United States and almost 60,000 pedestrians die, many from being struck by an oncoming car, truck or other motor vehicle.  Statistics like these are staggering and include people of all ages, but a large number of fatalities are young children.  Pedestrians can be extremely vulnerable and exposed. Even a vehicle traveling at low speeds cause cause pedestrian injury or deaths.  Injuries sustained in these accidents are all too often severe or life threatening.    
   
PEDESTRIAN ACCIDENT STATISTICS

• Over 4,800 pedestrians died in traffic-related accidents
• Pedestrians traffic accidents occur nearly 215 times a day
• Nearly 70% of pedestrian fatalities were men
• Over 70,000 pedestrians were injured in traffic-related accidents

These numbers reveal the problem of human error on the part of both pedestrians and motorists when it comes to unsafe travel practices.  Confusion and inattention are the two main reasons that accidents take place.  Males have a high occurrence of accidents, along with young people, smaller children, of course, and then the elderly.

This year, if the statistics are any indication at all, another 70,000 pedestrians will be injured in traffic-related accidents, and 5,000 more will die.  We also know from statistics that nearly half of those deaths will occur between 3:00 and 4:00 p.m., when our children are on their way home from school.  Negligent drivers are on the roads all throughout the day, every day.

At Estey & Bomberger, we are committed to protecting the rights of our personal injury clients in San Diego, Riverside, San Bernardino, Imperial County, Los Angeles and Orange County.  We will fight to recover the maximum award allowed by law in the case of driver negligence.  If you or a loved one has been injured in a pedestrian accident, or if you have lost a loved one due to the negligence of a reckless driver, contact the personal injury lawyers at Estey & Bomberger today. There is never any fee to have your auto accident injury case evalutated and there's never a fee unless we win your case.
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