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Defective Seats
Car seats are imperative to your vehicle's structural effectiveness and safety mechanisms. Seats serve as cushiony barriers that can disperse some of the force that generated during a crash, especially in rear-end collisions. A defective seat can unnecessarily put you and other passengers in harm's way.
Types of seat failure
When a seat back fails to hold up during an accident, seat belts are rendered useless and no longer can protect passengers. Once seatbelts have lost their ability to restrain occupants, they may be hurled towards the dashboard or windshield. In a rollover, passengers may be ejected from the vehicle altogether.
Various examples of seat back failure include:
- A poorly designed seat ramp that enables passengers to glide too far forward during an accident.
- A defective bond between the seat and floor of the car that allows the seat to detach itself and mobilize during an accident.
- An inadequately designed seat back that shatters due to the extreme force of the crash, resulting in passengers darting forward or being heaved out of the vehicle.
Child safety seat back failure
You would assume it is top priority, but automobile manufacturers do not always take the best interest of children into account when designing various car components. Child safety seats are only as good as the car seats they are placed on. When a seat back fails, the child seat may break loose from that seat and severely injure the youngster. An auto accident attorney will research how well the vehicle seat fared in crash tests. Next, they will determine whether the manufacturer could have produced an alternative design that they consciously chose not to employ.
