Ohio car accident injuries not always on roads | Bowling Green, Ohio car accident injury lawyers

According to the Jere Beasley Report, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has released its first ever "Not-in-Traffic Surveillence 2007" report. It confirms that preventable deaths and injuries associated with motor vehicles happen every year, not only on public roadways, but on private driveways and in parking lots.

NHTSA's report estimates that thousands of tragic and costly vehicle incidents occurred in 2007 when when cars backed over children and other pedestrians, as well as the closing of powerful automatic vehicle windows on necks and limbs of car occupants.

The NHTSA report found that in 2007 alone, 221 people were killed in backover incidents, and 14,000 suffered injuries. An additional 393 fatalities and 20,000 injuries were due to frontover incidents or being struck by a vehicle in some manner. The report also conculded that an average of 588 fatalities happen annually involving passengers inside the vehicles were children are strangled to death by powerful rising windows, left in hot vehicles to die from hyperthermia, or perish from the carbon momoxide posioning and vehicle fires.

If you or someone you know has been injured in a not-in-traffic car accident, contact our Bowling Green, Ohio car accident injury lawyers at 800.637.8170 for your free copy of The Ohio Accident Book.