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PEDESTRIAN ACCIDENT LAWYER USA


Our pedestrian accident lawyers will maximize your personal injury settlement. Our specialists have a client centred approach and focus principally on your needs and will provide committed and vigorous representation on your behalf. They will ensure that you receive justice by zealously representing your legal position and will take care of your compensation claim in a comprehensive, helpful, sympathetic and professional manner.

You can rely on our specialist advocates to take care of your compensation claim in a comprehensive, helpful, sympathetic and professional manner. Our pedestrian accident lawyers will respect your confidentiality at all times and will explain legal issues clearly and without jargon. Your calls will be answered promptly and faxes, e-mails and letters will, where possible be dealt with on the same day as they are received.

For free advice from a pedestrian accident lawyer without further obligation just complete the contact form and a member of the American Association for Justice will telephone you immediately to discuss your compensation claim.


Pedestrian Accident Statistics


Statistics revealed by The National Highway Traffic Safety Association (NHTSA) show that almost 5,000 American pedestrians are killed every year in vehicle accidents and almost 80,000 pedestrians suffer injuries requiring medical treatment when in collision with motor vehicles. The very nature of the circumstances of a pedestrian accident usually suggests that the car driver will ultimately be held responsible and a pedestrian accident lawyer can often make a legal claim for a personal injury settlement. Pedestrians also suffer many other non vehicle related injuries often caused by poor property maintenance, sidewalk neglect, parking lot defects and construction or other debris on walkways and claims for compensation can be made if it can be established that a third party was negligent and responsible for the cause of any injury :-

  • Pedestrian fatalities account for about 13% of all motor vehicle related deaths and on average someone is killed in a traffic accident every two hours in the USA.

  • About one third of pedestrians who are killed by a motor vehicle were legally intoxicated and in about 50% of fatalities either the driver or the pedestrian had a measurable blood alcohol level. If alcohol is involved it is essential to be represented by experienced auto accident lawyers.

  • Children under the age of 15 years and younger represent a disproportionately high level of fatal and non fatal injury. 25% of the children between the ages of 5 and 9 years old who were killed in car crashes were pedestrians.

  • Elderly adults of 70 years and older comprise less than 10% of the population but account for almost 20% of all pedestrian fatalities. The death rate for this group is the highest of any age group.

  • Pedestrian fatality rate for males was more than twice that for females. Non-fatal injury rates for male pedestrians were 50% higher than for females.

  • About 70% of pedestrian deaths occur in urban areas however fatality rates are higher in rural areas for almost all age groups. These higher fatality rates may be due to higher driving speeds and less immediate access to emergency medical care in rural areas.