Maison Law represents the victims of Glendale rear-end car accidents. Our Car Accident Lawyers help victims get the support they need to make a full recovery after a crash. Please contact us for a free, no-obligation consultation for all Glendale injury victims. It’s a no-risk opportunity to find out what a car accident case may be worth and how to hold careless drivers fully responsible.
Do I Need a Lawyer After a Rear-End Collision?
If a rear-end crash only causes some body damage to your car and/or very minor injuries, you may not need to contact a lawyer. But if your injury is serious, such as a fractured bone or a neck injury, you should speak to a Glendale Car Accident Lawyer.
When hospital bills grow, car insurers for at-fault drivers look for ways to avoid taking the blame. They’ll try to blame you for your accident or insinuate that your injuries aren’t as serious as you claim. Your Maison Law attorney is your safeguard against these unfair tactics. Your attorney collects all evidence and uses it to force insurers to provide everything you’ll need to heal and rebuild your life.
Rear-End Crash Hazards on Glendale Streets
Rear-end crashes are perhaps the most common type of accidents on California roads. They can happen on the Ventura Freeway when drivers don’t give themselves time to slow down for a traffic jam. They can happen at an intersection on Brand Boulevard when drivers in a rush look up too late to see cars stopped at a red light.
A rear-end impact can involve just some bumper damage or a crumpled trunk. But other impacts can send occupants flying backward and then forward to suffer major harm.
The Insurance Information Institute (III) documents that rear-end collisions claimed almost 3,000 lives across the U.S. in 2021. Those fatalities made up 7.5% of all lives lost in U.S. fatal accidents for the year.
California’s Transportation Injury Mapping System (TIMS) found that there were 168 rear-end collisions involving serious injury within Glendale city limits in 2022.
A routine rear-end collision can cause serious injuries, even if a car remains fairly undamaged. Victims may require enough in support to pay for days or weeks of medical care. Your Maison Law car accident lawyer totals your current medical costs and gets estimates on the care you may need in the future. Then your attorney gets aggressive with insurance adjusters and demands the maximum in compensation possible for your recovery.
What Causes Rear-End Accidents?
Rear-end impacts happen for a variety of reasons, but most could be avoided if drivers paid more attention to what’s ahead of them. These are some of the most common causes of rear-end angle crashes:
- Looking at a cell phone instead of watching for traffic lights turning red
- Tailgating
- Drivers who don’t monitor for traffic slowdowns or construction delays ahead
- Hazardous road conditions
- Brake failure
- Aggressive driving and speeding
Your lawyer collects police accident reports, surveillance video, and eyewitness reports to make sure the blame can’t be shifted off of the at-fault driver. The driver’s negligence caused your collision and the driver should never be able to leave you alone to face the consequences. When insurance companies try to get you to accept blame for what happened, your lawyer will have overwhelming evidence to shut them down.
Common Rear-End Crash Injuries
Glendale emergency room doctors treat all kinds of serious injuries after a car accident. Rear-end accidents often cause very specific injuries that can lead to weeks of pain and sometimes a lifetime of symptoms.
Whiplash and brain injuries often result when the head is moved back and forth rapidly. People can smash their faces on steering wheels, on dashes, on windows, and on the back of seats.
These are just some of the health concerns victims will endure:
- Whiplash: The sudden impact from a rear angle can force the victim’s head forward and back to put tremendous force on the neck. People may have to have their heads immobilized while their whiplash heals. Vertebrae fractures can also result from a collision.
- Traumatic Brain Injuries (TBI): That same back-and-forth motion can cause the brain to collide with the inner skull. TBI victims can suffer blurry vision, mood swings, memory loss, and even seizures.
- Bone Fractures: Rear-end accident victims may suffer broken wrists while trying to hold onto a steering wheel. Legs are often jammed into floorboards, making ankle and lower leg fractures possible.
- Broken Facial Bones: Victims can be sent into steering wheels, dashboards, and seats to suffer broken noses, broken jaws, and deep cuts.
- Airbag injuries: Airbags reduce the severity of injuries, but a collision can force you into an airbag to suffer burns. Explosions have even occurred and caused harm.
- Permanent disfigurement: Victims may suffer scars after coming into contact with metal or broken glass. A broken bone may break the skin and lead to a disfigurement. A car insurance company should be responsible for the costs of restorative surgery and for providing support to disfigurement victims who suffer emotional distress due to a very visible injury.
Compensation for Rear-End Collision Victims
A Maison Law attorney will be asking for compensation for every hardship you and your family have faced since the frightening collision.
Your attorney will definitely focus on the totals for your medical bills and estimates on any future care needed. Your Maison Law representative will also include some damages you may not have realized could increase the total on your car accident settlement check:
- The costs of medical treatment resulting from the accident.
- Income lost due to time off work.
- Potential future income loss if permanently disabled and unable to work.
- Reimbursement for expenses related to repairing damaged property, including your vehicle.
- Costs relating to the pain and suffering experienced as a consequence of the accident.
- Support for emotional trauma caused by the accident.
- Taking into account how the accident has impacted your quality of life.
- Wrongful death benefits for families who lose loved ones to rear-end collisions.
Contact a Glendale Rear-End Accident Lawyer
Victims and their families have up to two years to file an accident claim after a car collision. However, acting quickly is the best strategy. This will give your attorney access to fresh evidence and make it easier to find witnesses.
Schedule a free case consultation with Maison Law’s Glendale Car Accident Lawyers. This no-obligation, confidential case review is extended to victims and their family members. If you do feel we can help you earn more for your case, you won’t need any upfront money to hire us. We don’t get paid unless your case is won, and then our fee comes out of the settlement money you receive.
