A teenage girl from Staten Island fell into an open manhole and suffered personal injuries while trying to text while walking.
Texting is at an all time high among teenagers these days, and often times text messaging is a distraction that causes personal injury whether you are walking or driving. A recent study by AAA discovered that an alarming 46% of teens admitted to being distracted behind the wheel due to texting.
A pedestrian was injured when she fell in an open manhole cover while distracted by her cell phone.
Our firm’s San Diego personal injury lawyers know how popular texting has become among youth. Sometimes, they choose to text at the wrong times … such as these. Other questionable times to text is behind the wheel. Driver distractions have led to the rising number of teenage car accidents.
Driver distractions can lead to car accidents that can cause serious injuries that require medical treatment. If you have concerns about getting treatment, check out the handy resource page provided by our car accident attorneys.
No phone call, text message or email is worth the danger of a distracted driving car accident that can lead to personal injury or wrongful death.
Alexa Longueria, 15, was walking with a friend and preoccupied with a cell phone when she suddenly fell about four or five feet down the manhole. She had apparently just been passed the phone by her friend and was opening it to send a text message.
While Longueria was involved in a pedestrian accident which, like car accidents, is often caused by distractions. The increase in the use of cell phones and other electronic devices has greatly contributed to the number of pedestrian accidents and car accidents that occur each year.
Our San Diego personal injury lawyers, we know the effects of distracted drivers. We work to seek compensation for car accident victims, but nothing can replace or compensate for losing a family member to a wrongful death in a car accident.
Is sending a text while driving really worth a lifetime of pain and suffering if it causes a fatal car accident?
Call us now at 1-800-655-6585 or click here for a free consultation with an experienced personal injury attorney in San Diego and find out how we can help you. We speak English and Spanish, and we look forward to providing advice for your case. No fee if no recovery.
About Michael PinesMichael Pines is a former insurance company attorney who specializes in car accident injury. While he was an insurance attorney, he learned from behind the scenes on how insurance companies work and how they decided to pay injured people. Now that he works against insurance companies, Michael's inside knowledge has resulted in significant benefits to his clients injured in car accidents.
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Tags: driver distractions, Pedestrian Accidents, teenage drivers, texting, wrongful death
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