Blog: Vehicle Rollovers

Butler County teen killed in an ATV roll-over accident

Mar 1, 2015

An ATV accident in Butler County this past weekend has caused the death of a 16-year-old boy. The accident happed on Butternut Road in Butler County, Pennsylvania just east of Karns City. The victim of this tragic accident was a passenger on an ATV when the ATV rolled over. The driver sustained minor injuries. According to an investigating state trooper, the teens were going north on Butternut road when the ATV started to slide to...

Vehicle rollover car accident kills one in Pittsburgh

Jan 28, 2015

A vehicle rollover car accident this afternoon in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on the Parkway East inbound near the Greenfield Bridge has killed one and injured another. The accident is currently under investigation and police do not know what caused the accident. Similar to rear-end collisions, vehicle rollover car accidents often cause severe or fatal injuries. Generally in rollover car accidents, people assume the driver is at fault for either turning too sharply, or driving too fast. This...

Jurors agree defective tire caused rollover accident, award $10M

Oct 25, 2013

Imagine driving to work only to have a tire on your vehicle suddenly fly off. For one 39-year-old woman, this nightmare scenario became a reality in 2009. As a result of the defective tire, the wife and mother of three lost control of her car which careened out of control and came to rest after rolling over three times. As a result of the rollover accident, the woman was in a coma for a month...

One dead after rollover accident involving church passenger van

Oct 9, 2013

Many churches throughout the state of Ohio readily rely upon large passenger vans to transport adults and children to church-related events. The safety of these types of 15-passenger vans, however, has come into question amid cautions by the National Transportation Safety Board of an increased likelihood of rollover accidents. One recent rollover accident involving a 15-passenger van resulted in the death of one young girl. The accident occurred as nine children and adults traveled along...

Ohio man faces charges related to fatal rollover accident

Sep 14, 2013

Many motor vehicle accidents involve more than one car or truck that crash into one another. While injuries sustained in such accidents can be severe and painful in nature, some of the most serious car accidents are those that involve only one vehicle. When the driver of a vehicle is traveling at a high speed and looses control of a car or truck, it's likely that the vehicle will begin to roll. Commonly referred to...

Rollover accidents often result in serious, fatal injuries

Aug 14, 2013

Injuries that result from any motor vehicle accident can be serious in nature and result in those involved sustaining painful and debilitating injuries. Rollover accidents are among some of the most serious and deadly of all motor vehicle accidents. In many cases, those involved in rollover accidents are thrown or ejected from a vehicle as it gains momentum and rolls. Ohio residents were recently saddened to learn of an accident that occurred on the Ohio...

Two Ohio women involved in serious rollover accident on I-680

Jun 4, 2013

Individuals involved in rollover accidents often describe the event as being terrifying. Rollover accidents are among some of the most serious car accidents and often result in those drivers and passengers involved sustaining serious or even fatal injuries. One serious rollover accident was recently witnessed by an area news crew as they were traveling westbound on Ohio's Interstate 680. As the news crew was traveling down I-680, the driver of a car seemed to lose...

Two injured in Ohio rollover accident

May 6, 2013

Rollover accidents are among some of the most serious types motor vehicle accidents. In many cases, drivers and passengers who are involved in rollover accidents sustain serious and life-threatening injuries. Such injuries typically require immediate medical attention and take weeks or months to heal. A recent car accident that occurred on a Ohio highway, left two occupants of an SUV that rolled over over seriously injured. The accident occurred as a 20-year-old man was driving...

Failure to stop results in SUV rollover accident

Feb 1, 2013

Car accidents that result in vehicle rollovers are among some of the most serious and often result in those individuals involved sustaining serious or fatal injuries. Oftentimes, rollover accidents result when two or more vehicles collide with one another. The impact of such a crash interferes with a vehicle's ability to stabilize causing it to rollover or turn on its side. Often larger vehicles with more height are especially susceptible to rolling over when involved...

Girl, 15, killed in SUV rollover

Jul 14, 2012

Police in Butler County, Pennsylvania, recently identified the 15-year-old girl who was killed in a car accident on Wednesday in the town of Clay. The girl was killed when the SUV in which she was riding rolled over around 11:15 p.m. on Thompson Road. A 17-year-old boy was driving. He remains in the hospital. The girl was pronounced dead at the scene, about 15 minutes after the crash is believed to have happened. The girl...