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Boating Accidents

Each year thousands of people are injured and hundreds of people are killed in boating accidents. Boating and personal watercraft accidents often occur due to negligence. They can result in serious and sometimes deadly injuries. These accidents can happen on a privately-owned boat, a cruise ship, a jet ski, a ferry or other types of watercraft. Regardless of the type of boating accident you or a loved one may have been involved in, contacting a Seattle boating accident attorney at Wattel & York, Attorneys at Law, can help you recover any damages lost as a result of the accident.

Trucking Accidents

When a passenger vehicle, motorcycle, or pedestrian is involved in an accident with an enormous 18-wheel semi truck, the results can be catastrophic. These huge trucks usually weigh in the neighborhood of 80,000 pounds when loaded, so they can cause serious damage.

Texting While Driving

According to traffic safety experts, texting while driving increases the likelihood of a car crash by about 23 times and is more dangerous than driving drunk.

Taxi Accidents

Taxi drivers make their money by maximizing the number of fares they get in a shift. This often leads to aggressive driving, and aggressive driving is a major cause of injury accidents in Washington. Speeding, unsafe lane changes, weaving in traffic, failing to yield the right of way, distracted driving, cell phone use, talking with dispatch, running stop signs and red lights, driving while impaired by drugs or alcohol or when fatigued are all behaviors that may tempt some cab drivers as they dash to deliver enough passengers to their destinations to make a living at this demanding occupation.

Rear-end Collisions

Rear-end collisions are the most frequent of all kinds of car accidents, totaling around 2.5 million per year in the United States, or 29.6 percent of all car crashes, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). Tailgating, or following the car in front too closely, is often to blame, especially when combined with driver distractions, such as rubbernecking or texting, or with adverse weather or road conditions.

Highway Accidents

In 2010, 32,885 people died in motor vehicle traffic crashes on our nation’s highways, and 2,243,000 were injured. Washington’s 87,500 miles of roads, including more than 7000 miles of state and interstate highways, are often the scene of highway accidents; in that same year, 458 fatalities and countless injuries occurred in our state. A person injured or the survivors or a person killed in a motor vehicle accident can make a claim for damages from the accident if it can be shown that it was caused by another driver’s negligence or poor driving.

Head-on Collisions

When two vehicles speeding toward each other crash head to head, the force of the impact is twice as hard. Head-on crashes are more likely to result in fatalities and severe, life-changing injuries than any other types of car accident. Catastrophic injuries often seen in head-on collisions include traumatic brain injuries, injury to internal organs, spinal cord injuries, and fractures.

Auto Accidents

Automobile accidents are the leading cause of death for Americans under the age of 35. According to statistics released by the United States Department of Transportation, there were approximately 6.3 million auto accidents in the United States in 2004, with these accidents causing approximately 2.9 million injuries and 43, 000 deaths.

Wrongful Death

A wrongful death occurs when a person is killed due to the negligence or misconduct of another individual, company or entity. An action for wrongful death belongs to the decedent’s immediate family members (distributees). The most common distributees are surviving spouses and children, and sometimes parents.

Workplace Injury

Work is a big part of nearly everyone’s life, and it is important that workers can feel confident of their safety, wherever they work. Some jobs are inherently more dangerous than others, and for those it is even more important that rigorous safety procedures and inspections are in place to protect workers on the job.

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