Pursuing Injury Claim For an Injured Child Car crashes are unexpected adverse events and would tend to leave
people involved in the crash to be confused and scared, especially when children are involved. Ages around 9 below would definitely won’t understand what is going on and why it happened and even make the event scarier for them when they see blood and injuries from their parents or even to them, this would leave parents unsure of next step to take. In this blog, we are going to take a rare event on how to deal with a car accident involving one’s children and what legal steps to take after dealing with current situation in hand.
Things to do After the Crash Involving your Children As parents, our first priority to check is their well-being and injuries sustained as well as the non-visible damage, mental damage. Here are some steps to do to ensure safety after an accident.
- Pull off the road or out from the traffic, if managable and turn on hazard while turning to the side carefully
- If possible, avoid going out from the car immediately following the accident as there may be a passing car and may get hit by it.
- Inside or outside the car, try to be calm and make sure your children understand the situation in words that they’d understand and how they should react to it, avoid getting angry at the driver or someone who caused the accident in the first place in front of your children.
- Call 911 and an ambulance to get appropriate medical attention and apply first aid to injured passengers.
- File for a police report as it may help investigators to determine who is at fault.
Pursuing a Claim for your Injured Child Most states in U.S. including Ohio, are at-fault state which means the driver who appeared to cause the accident is deemed as the
at-fault driver is responsible for the damages. The term damages includes mental, property, and physical damages that everyone in the victims’ car suffered including children. If ever one of your family members or closests friend has been involved in an accident who have
sustained either minor or significant injuries and even a possible case of amputation because of possibly an animal or livestock owner has shown apparent negligence and recklessness and
caused an accident and render the victim to have life-threatening injuries and condition, you can always refer help from a professional experienced injury lawyer to smoothen things out as your hired lawyers can help you decide from their factual and legal advices and can help you sort things out legally rather than settling over cash offer without damage calculation and future’s regards.
Ryan Injury Lawyers is an Ohio based injury lawyer that represents victims of personal injury caused by car accidents, medical malpractice due to medical professional’s negligence, and even wrongful death against large companies, agencies and even individuals. We have 40 years of experience doing our service in this field and evidently successful with our civil litigations. Call our office now for free legal consultation.
