Welcome to the successful car accident law firm of ehlinelaw.com. Our superior accident lawyer knows you landed on this web page because you probably suffered a severe injury in a car accident involving a teenage driver.
Let’s start this conversation with a basic understanding that, in general, distracted driving accidents cause many municipal buses, commercial trucks, private SUVs, and motorcycle wrecks.
Teens wreak havoc on our roads and have likely done so since the Romans perfected a quick, straightforward logistical transportation methodology.
Our Los Angeles distracted driving injury lawyers have witnessed it. Distracted teen drivers present a clear and present danger to everyone driving on or loitering near streets, roads, and highways worldwide, especially in Los Angeles. New teen drivers with learner’s permits will share the roadways with other, more experienced drivers.
Our teen driving accident attorneys specialize in these cases. They are standing by 24/7 to take your important call so we can begin the process of negotiating with insurance companies to secure you an award of maximum compensation right away.
But even when teens drive provisionally, they will still have a lot to learn about good citizenship and expressway navigation tactics. After all, youngsters haven’t become adults, yet they are no longer little kids.
Did your teenager or another loved one suffer serious injuries caused by a young, inexperienced motorist? Our teen car accident attorneys at Ehline Law Firm Personal Injury Attorneys, APLC, will help you seek compensation from the liable party. Accident victims can call us at (213) 596-9642 to learn more today about our expert legal services. You can scroll down to receive your free consultation from auto accident lawyers with a proven, winning track record for winning any car accident case for the biggest monetary amount possible.
Do you have a potential car accident claim in Los Angeles County, CA? Our lead attorney has won industry-wide recognition from peers and clients alike for winning auto accidents. And he is ready to put that experience and winning formula to work for minors and adults. Also, we do so in a wide variety of teen driving incidents. You can call immediately, or you keep reading to learn the ropes. Learn about the unique problems attributed to teen driving calamities.
Yes. According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), distracted driving (which includes texting while driving) results in over 2,800 fatalities yearly in the United States. Driving your motor vehicle will involve coordination of your hands, eyes, and vision, requiring time-developed muscle memory-based reflexes. If your teen becomes slightly distracted visually, their thoughts and attention can veer from the road, causing a deadly wreck.
Making matters worse, youngsters can be in upheaval, wanting their freedom, yet they still rely on their parent’s security, having little real-life driving experience. Because of this, these young men and women may fail to drive safely, despite taking introductory driver training education courses.
Above all, teens grabbing phones or pressing and turning radio dials while operating a motor vehicle is a terrible idea. Any distractions can cause teen drivers to remove one or both hands off the steering wheel. Let’s look at some more common teen driving distractions.
The first year teenagers operate a motorized vehicle is when they remain most likely to crash. Most teen driving accidents occur after teens become distracted by friends, the car radio, or CD player, with text messages and mobile cell phone calls among the biggest teen driver distractions.
Below are some Common Distractions Teens, In Particular, Should Avoid if Driving.
True. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) claim more than half of teenagers text while behind the wheel of automobiles. Not all teen car accidents are caused by drivers texting while driving, but statistics show a threat.
It remains likely your kid is a better texter than you. But it’s a trade-off. After all, typically, you can drive better. Of course, this stupid act is just one of many foolish frolics youngsters engage in while operating motor vehicles on the U.S. and Los Angeles roads each year. Do any of you older drivers out there remember the crazy things we did as teens?
Some teenagers do not fully understand how texting and driving distractions can kill. As a result, many teenagers and innocent third parties die or suffer injuries related to teen texting and driving.
What happens when multiple parties are conversing and driving autos? We have an increased risk of deadly cell phone car wrecks on highways, that’s what.
Maybe. In one New Jersey teen driving accident claim, text messaging was involved. In that case, the plaintiff lodged their lawsuit against the teenage driver and the land-based girlfriend texting him from a remote location. Plaintiffs argued the female texter knew the teen boy was driving, spurring a debate about whether she was responsible for the decedent’s distraction and wrongful death.
After all, the plaintiff’s attorneys quipped. She knew or should have known the driver was reading the texts instead of watching the road. Plaintiffs’ lawyers are becoming creative when seeking personal injury money damages for clients injured due to teen texting while driving. In the eyes of left-oriented P.I. lawyers, someone else is always responsible for your problems, not YOU.
Especially during COVID-19 lockdowns, we have seen an overall decrease in traffic accidents, with an overall increase in speeding-related fatalities. Driving too fast lowers driver accident avoidance response times. Teenagers crash a lot due to excessive road speeds. (Source).
In addition to road rage, terms like “rice rocket,” “drifting,” and “street racing” have become common among younger male drivers in particular. Since males and females are 100% biologically different (higher testosterone levels cause males to take more risks), younger men tend to be more violent and risk-averse. Hence, more males engage in reckless driving than their female counterparts. It’s called “science.” Proving you are a winner and better than the other boys is particularly important.
And if you are trying to win an impressionable young lady’s affection, what better way than winning a road race in your Subaru “ricer?” Almost every motion picture episode, Fast and Furious with Vin Diesel, involved driving fast and winning the girl, right? The statistics show that male drivers remain at far greater risk for speed-related crashes for a reason. But thousands of male and female teens are killed or wounded in annual car accidents, regardless of gender.
Most of us already know It remains illegal in all 50 states for teens to drive cars with any amount of blood alcohol if your teenager suffered injuries caused by driving an automobile while under the influence of alcohol (DUI) or drugs (DWI), parents, in particular, will face many risky challenges.
Sometimes parents are at the risk of paying. For the parent surviving their child’s severe injury or death, the grief, shock, and loss over an intoxicated child driving will be overwhelming. Relationships between friends will be crushed as the parties posture up, making the car accident case more complex. Our superior legal team at Ehline Law Firm will teach you how top teen car accident attorneys deal with teen DUI driver crashes.
Drivers, including teenagers, must refrain from eating or drinking while driving. As soon as you remove one hand from your steering wheel, your risk of crashing your car will increase exponentially. (Read from our distracting eating and driving lawyer here).
Teens, in particular, must never loudly play Power 106, for example. Sure, you want other teens to hear you playing Big Boy” in the morning on your booming woofer, with your midrange and tweeters sharply sounding off. But that distraction will block you from hearing warnings of approaching squad cars, other emergency vehicle sirens, trains, and big rig truck horns. If you can’t rely on audio cues, you will have far less accident avoidance time with an approaching vehicle.
When you take your eyes off the road, your vehicle accident risks increase even for a split second. Bending over sideways to pick things up jammed between your seat or floorboards remains a common problem among California teen and adult drivers. You must never pick something up that falls between your car seat or floor while operating a motorized conveyance. It would help if you waited until the vehicle is idle, preferably after pulling into a parking lot, to gather something that fell.
New drivers, in particular, must avoid transporting vehicle passengers. Even the California Vehicle Code generally prohibits provisional teen drivers from doing so due to the associated risks. Parents of children also remain at increased risk of crashing while transporting their little ones. Simply put, this remains a distraction, unwise for all cautious drivers.
You already know from the vehicle manufacturers’ warnings that you should not play with your GPS or conduct data entry while driving cars. Stop adjusting your radio, heater, air conditioning, and mirrors if you’re engaged in-vehicle driving.
Sure, teen car drivers pass a test to obtain a license to drive. But driving well takes a lot. A permit and, ultimately, a driver’s license is part of it. Unfortunately, teachers can’t teach kids everything in a class. Sometimes we need to experience things firsthand, like driving a car. The teen will require a lot of hands-on experience to develop those driver skills critical to accident avoidance.
These safe teen driver tips don’t cover everything. Let us know if you can think of more by calling (213) 596-9642.
The sad truth is many teen drivers and teen passengers don’t wear seatbelts, which is foolish for two main reasons:
(1) You cannot collect total damages. (Source.)
Note that the Motor Vehicle Safety Act (Veh. Code, § 27315) applies only to persons 16 years or older. (Veh. Code, § 27315(d)(1).). No case law exists that people under 16 have fault for failing to wear a seatbelt.
(2) Occupants who don’t wear restraining devices make injuries worse. What could have been whiplash may now be a ruptured disc. Or it could cause lacerations and head injuries. And getting launched through the vehicle’s windshield happens a lot. Everything becomes worse than it may have been when not wear your seatbelt.
Of course, California law mandates that negligent parties be held accountable. But failing to wear your seatbelt can severely limit the fault party’s legal and financial liability.
True. Initially, the deponent, especially an adolescent, may be afraid, and possibly his peers could find out what they said, branding your teen as a “snitch.” Or your teen may fear punishment by parents since parental assets may be at risk. Your teen may think saying the wrong thing will cut them off from their family’s love since these kids have never lived alone.
A proven negotiator at Ehline Law Law Firm will help get to the bottom of your accident, finessing when needed and strong arming as necessary. Ehline has the skill to get to the truth of the matter.
Some commons types of teen driving injuries resulting from a car accident may include:
If your teenager suffered injuries related to their car accident, they might have the legal right to pursue compensation for any damages or losses.
Like you, all accidents are unique. Because of this, there is no valid personal injury compensation calculator. Instead, your lawyers must gather evidence to get you maximum compensation. If your teenager has evidence they suffered injuries or losses caused by negligence, California law gives them the right to seek monetary compensation covering their damages and losses.
Above are just a few injuries and losses your teenager may receive compensation for related to their car accident.
Supervening, and intervening causes of these wrecks can come into play. These include defective car parts. And they involve roadways in need of repair. The harm the teen driver or other party caused can surpass their insurance coverage, so you may need to seek alternative forms of compensation. In other words, your lawyer must seek out other parties with funds to pay you.
Here are some parties potentially liable for causing, contributing, or collision, making them jointly and severally liable as supervening, intervening defendants:
There are many more potentially liable parties to pay for your teen driving accident damages. Our superior car crash lawyers in Los Angeles will seek to identify every detail of your crash. If we successfully find more liable parties, you may end up pocketing more money. If the evidence shows parents are on the hook, we’ll sue them also.
As we noted previously, other parties may have played a role. Because of this, they will remain jointly and severally liable to you for personal injury payments. We will take affirmative steps to locate all responsible parties as co-defendants, getting you the most money possible.
The teen driver’s bond or insurance coverage may expire in some teenage driving accidents, putting their parent’s assets at risk. In some cases, our Los Angeles pedestrian accident lawyers have opened homeowners’ policy claims to cover an amputation, for example. Examples, where your homeowner’s policy may provide insurance payments for your teen-caused driving accident injuries include cases where people are run over on foot (pedestrian accidents). Our severe injury attorneys have had luck opening up commercial policies, and sometimes we will bring in the city, county, or state as government claims defendants.
No matter what, when insurance is involved, the responsible wrongdoer will have trained legal help. Usually, your opponent will have expensive defense attorneys or employ dedicated house counsel. These professional defense lawyers will try and shift blame to someone, anyone other than their clients. Your failure to retain legal counsel means you will probably never receive a complete financial recovery.
In many motoring collision cases, teenagers lack the life skills to understand what steps to take following a severe car accident. Sometimes, scared teens may think they are guilty, admit fault, and begin apologizing, even when the wreck wasn’t their fault. Could you not do it? Teach your teen driver to build their claim in advance.
Tell your teen driver to:
Your family will feel overwhelmed after your teenager suffers serious injuries from a car accident. Parents will be very stressed, and their kids will be scared, facing higher insurance rates or suspension of their driving privileges.
Suppose your teenager suffered any damages or loss in an auto accident. In that case, you could learn how our teen car accident lawyer at Ehline Law Firm will help ensure your valuable legal rights remain in place. At the same time, we pursue monetary damages compensation on your and your loved one’s behalf.
It would help if you refused to waste your valuable time. We will give you a free, private consultation right over the phone. With Ehline Law at your side helping, things can only get better. Would you like to receive your free case review today? Greater Los Angeles accident victims should call our experienced Los Angeles personal injury attorneys at (213) 596-9642 and let us help win your case.
All the humor aside, teens, texting, and driving are a problem at a national level. Increases in the popularity of “smartphones” have only made matters worse. So then we are facing multiple parties conversing and driving. But we also see a massive increase in teens answering and reading texts, emails, and Snapchats. All this time, these youngsters are operating motor vehicles. So we have an increased risk of deadly cell phone car wrecks on highways. And despite legislation and public education, these accidents are only rising.
Text messaging was involved in one New Jersey teen driving accident, causing the plaintiff to file a lawsuit against the teenage driver. But here, the plaintiff sued the land-based girlfriend for texting from a remote location, arguing the female texter knew the teen boy was driving, spurring a debate about whether she was responsible for the decedent’s distraction. We also see plaintiffs suing the person sending the text message since they knew or should have known the driver was reading the texts instead of watching the road. This example remains one of many in how plaintiffs’ lawyers are becoming creative, getting the most leverage when seeking personal injury money damages for their injured clients.
Supervening and intervening causes of these wrecks can come into play. These include defective car parts. And they involve roadways in need of repair. But I fail to perceive these threats or take evasive action in negligence. For example, teen drivers can lose control and hit a power pole or a tree after skidding on-road debris. But this is something an experienced driver would avoid. Many teen distraction cases see vehicles colliding with animals and pedestrians.
The first year a teenager drives a car is when they are likely to be in a crash.
The sad truth is many teenage drivers and occupants don’t wear seatbelts, which is silly for two main reasons:
(1) You cannot collect total damages. (Source.)
Note that the Motor Vehicle Safety Act (Veh. Code, § 27315) applies only to persons 16 years or older. (Veh. Code, § 27315(d)(1).). No case law exists that people under 16 have fault for failing to wear a seatbelt.
(2) Occupants who don’t wear restraining devices make injuries worse. What could have been whiplash may now be a ruptured disc. Or it could cause lacerations and head injuries. And getting launched through the windshield happens a lot. Everything becomes worse than it may have been.
Of course, the law mandates that negligent parties be held accountable. But failing to wear a seatbelt can severely limit their legal and financial liability.
True. Your teen may think saying the wrong thing will cut them off from their family’s love since these kids have never lived alone. No matter what, if insurance is involved, the other side will have trained help. Usually, your opponent will have expensive defense attorneys or employ dedicated house counsel. These professional lawyers will try and shift blame to someone, anyone other than their clients. Not having your attorney means you will probably never receive a complete financial recovery.
The harm caused can surpass the insurance coverage. In some cases, we file a claim against the parents or guardians. It could be the case that the teen was on the clock at work for the parent. And the youth could be under the supervision of an instructor. Maybe the parent is in charge? Perhaps that instruction or guidance led to the accident? Our excellent lawyers will leave no stone unturned.
We will give you a free, private consultation right over the phone, along with a bit of hope in facing the adverse changes in your life. With Ehline Law at your side helping, thongs can only get better. Greater Los Angeles accident victims, including parents of injured teen passengers or those who suffered traffic fatalities, should call our experienced Los Angeles personal injury attorneys at this phone number (213) 596-9642. After that, let us help win your case using our proven track record and secret formula of success.
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Michael Ehline
Michael Ehline is an inactive U.S. Marine and world-famous legal historian. Michael helped draft the Cruise Ship Safety Act and has won some of U.S. history’s largest motorcycle accident settlements. Together with his legal team, Michael and the Ehline Law Firm collect damages on behalf of clients. We pride ourselves on being available to answer your most pressing and difficult questions 24/7. We are proud sponsors of the Paul Ehline Memorial Motorcycle Ride and a Service Disabled Veteran Operated Business. (SDVOB.) We are ready to fight.