NYC Taxi Accident Lawyer

What’s particularly alarming about NYC taxi accidents is that many passengers will choose to not wear their seatbelts during short trips. Unrestrained vehicle passengers contribute to around 4% of all car accident fatalities each year in the United States, so it’s always in your best interest to buckle up when you enter taxis or rideshare vehicles.

Some of the most common injuries that our New York City cab accident attorneys come across include the following:

• Whiplash: Whiplash injuries are one of the most common types of neck injuries that result from rear-end car accidents, and a whiplash will entail an incredibly swift back-and-forth movement that throws an individual’s head forward and then back to normal positioning. Whiplash will often lead to persistent neck stiffness, neck pain, and headaches.
• Scrapes/Lacerations: Many auto collisions will result in skin, muscle, and tissue being seriously cut by broken glass and other debris. These common injuries will likely necessitate the need for stitches, and they’ll often lead to permanent scarring.
• Head injuries: It’s very unfortunate, but traumatic brain injuries (TBIs) are common after serious taxi accidents in New York City. Although other minor head injuries are also frequent, TBIs are a common injury that our taxi accident lawyers will support individuals with.
• Broken bones: Bone fractures of any kind are always very painful, and many New York City taxi accidents will involve a passenger experiencing broken/fractured ribs, vertebrae, femur, collarbone, sternum, and/or ankles. These injuries will many times require surgery and extensive physical therapy.
• Internal bleeding: High-impact collisions can sometimes lead to penetrating/blunt trauma that damages an individual’s blood vessels and initiates internal bleeding. These injuries are often severe and may require surgery.
• Contusions: Contusions are serious bruises that can lead to all sorts of discomfort and swelling. One common type of contusion involved in many New York City taxi crashes is a pulmonary contusion, which is a bruised lung.
• Knee trauma: Taxi passengers will frequently be thrown forward during a collision, which can cause them to strike their knee on the seat in front of them at a high speed. This can lead to knee issues like a shattered patella, torn meniscus, patella chondromalacia, and much more.
• Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD): There’s no denying that a serious taxi accident can be extremely debilitating on passengers from a mental standpoint, which is why PTSD and other forms of anxiety are common after taxi cab crashes. Many people will be afraid to ride in cabs after their accident for many years afterward.
• Wrongful death: Although deaths are relatively rare in New York City taxi accidents, there still are at least a handful of deaths each and every month in these situations. In a wrongful death lawsuit, a passenger’s surviving family members will be the plaintiffs seeking damages from at-fault parties.