Atlanta Personal Injury Law Blog

The road can be a dangerous place. Atlanta car owners should not have to have any additional worries about their own car when they pull out of the driveway every morning. A massive recall of six auto manufacturers should have drivers paying close attention to their vehicle and if it is one of the vehicles affected by the auto defect in nearly 3.5 million vehicles.

Nearly 1 million cars in the United States and close to 3.5 million worldwide have been recalled because of a faulty airbag part that was put in vehicles in Washington by Takata automakers nearly a decade ago. The manufacturing defect in the airbags could cause them to catch on fire or harm passengers in the front seats by shooting metal fragments, if deployed.

Children can sometimes seem rather indestructible, both to adults and to themselves. They will take a terrible tumble down some stairs or on the playground and bounce back up to continue playing and running about. Adults of a certain age certainly realize how much quicker a body recovers from an intense workout during the younger years.

Although children are often quick to move on from injury, it remains the duty of adults to protect children from bodily harm, including brain injury. A recent bill signed by the governor of Georgia, Nathan Deal, will hopefully do just that, especially with regard to reducing the chance of a serious brain injury. The governor stated that the law, in part, attempts to educate adults and students about the dangers of brain damage from seemingly innocuous injuries.

Atlanta residents who have suffered a brain injury know how devastating these injuries can be. The symptoms may take a while to fully develop, but a brain injury can result in chronic pain, long-term problems with concentration, trouble with working or performing daily tasks, even permanent disability.

One woman currently seeking treatment at an Atlanta clinic told reporters she is still suffering symptoms from a brain injury she suffered in a car accident nine years ago. She told of severe pain and episodes of vertigo in which she feels like she is spinning. One of these episodes lasted 11 days. At other times, she said she feels like she is constantly on a raft.

Despite the many airplanes, trains and ships delivering goods and resources throughout the country, trucks remain vital to the distribution chain. Though the serve this very important and productive role of hauling tons of materials around, that tonnage can switch from potentially useful to definitely dangerous in the case of a truck accident. Such was the case recently on a Glasgow, GA highway.

The driver of the tractor-trailer was speeding north on I-65 with a large load of lumber. In the center lane of the road, the driver spotted a construction directional sign. In his attempted to swerve around the sign and avoid hitting it, he lost control of his truck. The vehicle smashed into a concrete barrier wall and the lumber scattered cross the interstate. Though the driver was injured, fortunately no reports of other vehicles or people being suffering any serious injury.