You need professional expertise of a school bus accident lawyer to handle any injury claims that take place due to school bus accidents. Fortunately, our lawyers have handled thousands of such cases over the years and can offer you quality legal representation to help you making monetary recovery. You may observe lots of similarities in such accidents while comparing them to other automobile accidents; however, laws pertaining to the type of vehicle in the accidents are different.
The complex web of laws and statutes regarding bus accident liabilities can confuse the claimant while identifying the laws that are applicable in such cases. This is where our firm comes into play by identifying the appropriate type of accident, understanding the complex nature of laws and their effect on your case.
A look at the statistics
School bus accidents can result in fatal injuries and can be a devastating experience for your child and your family. According to the available statistical data, around 23.5 million children from secondary and elementary schools travel every day and 12000 children succumb to varying degrees of school bus accidents every year. The gravity of such injuries vary from minor to catastrophic with an annual fatal rate of 12.
The Gross Negligence
Most of the times, these injuries occur when your child is getting off or boarding the school bus or the school bus met an accident involving another vehicle. Although, it has been mandatory to use seat belts, most of these school buses are either not having seat belts or fail to ensure that every child has properly fastened the seat belts. This negligence often results in probable injuries when bus driver hits the brakes suddenly, takes sharp turn or falling out of their seats during accidents.
As a parent of injured child, you can file a claim against school bus driver or its employer (local school board, most often) if it is the case of gross negligence that has contributed towards accident and subsequent injuries. Gross negligence can be defined as a negligence that exhibits an absolute overlooking of caution resulting in a complete negligence of another person’s safety. Although gross negligence is hard to prove, our trained and experienced investigators and attorneys will take all the efforts to gather necessary facts and evidences.
On the other hand, Marietta school bus accident lawyer can also assist you in pursuing claim against a concerned school board which can be made liable for acts of similar negligence and not provided sovereign immunity like school drivers. So, most of the times, it becomes lot easier to claim by filing against school board than the driver.
There are also certain limits of compensation you can get depending upon the gravity of injuries and our proficient lawyers will help you in identifying that. The whole scenario is quite confusing, although our school bus accident lawyers will guide you through this maze and assist you in getting maximum possible recovery amount.
Contact us today and let us help you out.
