El Centro Accident Caused By Farm Machinery Lawyer

Most people find large farm machinery fascinating. Kids love to drive past a field and watch the harvester or combine working in a field. But when you encounter one of these massive machines on an El Centro road, even in a more rural area, you find them to be much larger than you expected. The perspective is drastically different when you are next to a combine than when it is hundreds of yards away in a vast field that seems to extend to the horizon. Suddenly, you realize that the tires on these tools can be as tall as the average passenger vehicle, and the driver is sitting well over the roof of your car, truck, or SUV.

Some of the most disturbing causes of El Centro accidents caused by farm machinery are due to the size of these huge tools. In most cases, the driver of a large piece of farm equipment is sitting high above the level of a driver in a car. This elevation and line of sight means they can easily be looking right over the top of a passenger vehicle. It is also very easy for a smaller vehicle to be obscured from view by the massive tires, work implements, or engine housing of the machine. Sadly, if the driver of the farm machine did not notice your vehicle when it was a great distance away, they might not see it and could easily hit the vehicle.

Other issues can be created when a passenger vehicle comes up behind a slow-moving piece of farm equipment and tries to pass it. On a two-lane road, the farm machinery can easily use much more than a single lane, leaving very little space for cars, trucks, and SUVs to pass, even when using the oncoming lane. Incidents often happen when the farm machine driver does not see the passing passenger vehicle until it is beside the equipment. At that point, the appearance of the car is a shock to the operator of the equipment, and they can inadvertently allow the machine to move to the left and cause a collision.

As a large piece of farm machinery enters a roadway, it typically moves much slower than car traffic and can use multiple lanes to make the turn. If a driver of a passenger vehicle is approaching, they could have no idea that the equipment will move very slowly and could be blocking the entire road and cause an accident. In other cases, the operator of the farm machinery does not realize they do not have enough space to enter the roadway or make a turn and will strike cars in the road as they pass.

Finally, when a driver wants to pass a piece of farm machinery that is on the road, they have little ability to see around it or observe what is in front of it. They are passing the farm machinery with no vision of the space they are about to occupy. Often, there are multiple pieces of equipment, and the driver cannot complete the pass as planned. Some drivers could panic and run off the road or hit the next piece of equipment in the line. While these vehicles are permitted on the road in some cases, they need to adhere to specific rules and ensure the safety of passenger vehicles they encounter.

If the driver fails to abide by the laws of the road or the farm machinery is unsafe to operate on a road, the driver can be considered negligent in making the choice to drive on a California roadway. As the innocent victim of an El Centro accident caused by farm machinery, you have the right to pursue legal action to get the compensation you deserve for the losses and expenses created by the accident and injuries you sustained. Please reach out to DTLA Law Group today to speak to an expert lawyer who specializes in cases that involve accidents caused by farm equipment on roadways.

Ideally, the only damage caused by a piece of farm machinery in an accident is a dent or two to the passenger vehicle. However, these pieces of farm equipment can be massive and weight almost as much as a semi truck. Large combines weigh nearly 60,000 pounds as compared to the average family car that has a mass of less than 5,000 pounds. If the equipment operator is not paying attention, the impact with a passing car can result in catastrophic injuries to the driver and other passengers that include one or more of these:

• Broken or shattered bones
• Partial or complete amputations
• Severe lacerations or puncture wounds that include damage to internal organs and internal bleeding
• Harm to the neck, back, and spinal cord
• Destruction of soft tissue and nerves
• Facial injuries to the skin, eyes, ears, nose, and mouth
• Head injuries that include a skull fracture, severe concussion, brain bleed, or other traumatic brain injuries
• Compound fractures
• Complete joint dislocations and destruction of the soft connective tissue of the joints

Your farm machinery injury lawsuit will be based on the actual losses and expenses you incurred. Working with your DTLA Law Group legal team, you will gather all the documentation to support those allowable expenses to determine the compensation amount. The items used include:

• All current and projected medical expenses to treat the accident injuries
• Your lost income if the injuries prevent you from working at your regular job until recovered
• The cost of all legal services to prepare, file, and litigate the case
• The replacement cost of any personal property damaged or destroyed in the incident

As a personal injury victim, you have two years from the date of the injury incident to file a lawsuit with the court. If the case is not filed at that time, you lose the right to pursue compensation and justice for the harm caused by that incident. In addition, there are minimal exceptions that would allow you more time to file a claim once the original time limit has passed.

When you work with DTLA Law Group, you are never asked to pay any upfront legal fees. Instead, our firm only gets paid after the case is resolved, and you have the compensation needed to cover your legal expenses and other costs. In addition, if your DTLA Law Group El Centro accident caused by a farm machinery lawyer fails to win the case and deliver that much-needed compensation, you owe the firm nothing for its time and financial investment in building the lawsuit. Please do not hesitate to reach out to our staff today to learn more about this very helpful process to overcome the hardships of your injuries caused by farm equipment.

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