What Happens When You Take Your Vehicle To A Repair Shop Or Car Dealer And You Are Shortly Thereafter Involved In A Crash?
It is rather obvious that when you take your vehicle to a repair shop or car dealer for repairs, it is supposed to come out in a better or safer condition than it was prior to its visit. A car repair dealer owes a duty to the customer and public to use ordinary care in making repairs.
Each year thousands of people will die in the United States in car accidents due to faulty repairs. When you take a vehicle to a shop for repairs after an accident, it is critical that repairs are made according to factory tolerances to insure the current driver and passenger and future owners are afforded the same level of vehicle safety after the repairs have been made as they had been before the vehicle was in an accident.
Any repairs should reduce the risk of injury or death to a passenger when a crash occurs and some lawyers have even argued that when you take your vehicle back to a dealership, the dealership has an extra duty to inspect the vehicle for safety defects including the condition of the tires and spare tire. A car dealer repair shop has the duty to discover and repair any obvious defects which would present a risk to the safety of the occupants. If there has been a motor vehicle defect and you take the car back to the dealership, the dealer is charged with responding to the recall and correcting the defective situation or component in the vehicle.
Since 1958, the experienced Philadelphia car accident lawyers of the Beasley Reiff Law Group have been representing catastrophically injured victims and their families and those who have sustained wrongful death due to automotive defects. The Pennsylvania vehicle defect lawyers of the Beasley Reiff Law Group are experienced in handling all types of car accidents and motor vehicle defect cases for the citizens of Pennsylvania. If you or a loved one has been injured due to an auto tire defect, airbag defect, SUV rollover, or the failure of a repair facility to properly repair your vehicle, contact one of our lawyers for a free, no obligation consultation online at www.beasleyreifflawgroup.com or toll free at 1-800-588-0130.
