School children safe in Missouri? Get the facts. Be prepared.
What would you do if your child was in an accident at school? Or maybe sustained an injury simply walking or riding a bus to school? Sound far fetched?
Sadly, accidents involving school children are far more common than you might think. Just recently, two Missouri teenagers were killed and dozens of students were injured when two school buses were involved in a chain-reaction accident on Interstate 44 near St. Louis. Also this school year, 11 people were injured in a school bus accident in Topeka, Kansas.
Pedestrian accidents involving children are common, too. A staggering number of pedestrians injured and killed are under 15 years old. In 2008, pedestrians sustained 69,000 injuries and 4,378 deaths in accidents, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Those statistics include 15,000 injured and 316 killed under 15 years old.
The statistics are even more startling for bicycle injuries and deaths for children. Cyclists under 14 years old account for 24 percent of all bicycle-related deaths and 50 percent of all bicycle-related injuries.
What would you do after such a horrific accident? Who would you turn to for advice? Who would you trust? You need someone who understands the law inside out. You need a professional with years of experience navigating through such complicated legal mazes. You need Castle Law Office of Kansas City.
Serving clients throughout Missouri and Kansas, our knowledgeable attorneys know how to thoroughly investigate such cases. If the accident involves a school bus company, we often pour over records to find out whether the driver had the proper credentials to operate a school bus.
If another driver was involved, we may examine whether other factors contributed to the accident. Perhaps the driver was doing something besides driving. Texting while driving, talking on a cell phone, fiddling with the radio – all of these activities distract drivers and put us all at risk.
We know how precious your children are to you. An accident can instantly change your lives forever. Let us do everything in our power to right any wrongs done to your children.
Don’t be a victim. Take action. Contact Castle Law Office. We’re on your side.
