Rear-End Accidents

There are careless and inattentive drivers that cause rear-end car accidents and these can cause severe and catastrophic injuries. A rear-end accident is a traffic accident wherein a vehicle crashes into a car in front of it. To verify these types of crashes, you will need the help of Dan Lovell, a Las Vegas rear-end accident attorney and senior partner of Empire Law Group. These types of cases usually are hard to determine in a multi-vehicle collision, but an experienced attorney should be able to help you out.

If you have been injured in a rear-end collision or find yourself in the situation, an experienced Las Vegas rear-end accident attorney can help you file compensation for the losses you have suffered.

Rear-End Collisions and Personal Injury Claims

In a personal injury case involving a rear-end collision, it usually is easier to assign fault than in other car accident cases. It is crucial that you have an experienced Las Vegas rear-end accident attorney on your side. They can help you get full and fair compensation for your any of loss or injuries that you may have.

The typical scenario for a rear-end collision involves a sudden deceleration by the first car to avoid someone or something on the street so that the vehicle behind does not have the time to avoid the first car or step on the brakes resulting into a collision with the first. Alternatively, the following car may also accelerate more rapidly than the car in front which will lead to a collision. Roads are wide in Nevada, and rear end accidents usually occur when congestion is high. A Las Vegas rear-end accident attorney can help you should you experience such disasters.

A rule of thumb in rear-end accidents is if the two vehicles have the same physical structure, crashing into another car is equivalent to crashing into a rigid surface at half of the closing speed.

Rear-end accidents can cause major injuries. Common injuries resulting from rear-end collisions include:

• Whiplash – this is a non-medical term for a range of neck injuries caused by or related to a sudden distortion of the neck.
• Cervical (neck) injuries
• Spinal cord injuries
• Lumbar injuries
• Injuries to the head
• Injuries to the face

Whiplash and other soft tissue injuries are often those most aggressively disputed by most insurance companies. An experienced Las Vegas rear-end accident attorney can handle numerous rear-end accident cases and will know how to counterclaims put forth by the opposition or by insurance companies. It is also important to know the extent of damage that your injury has, and we have access to medical experts who can help you determine precisely that and what will that cause you to endure in the future.