Archive for February 17th, 2011

Video shows Smith & Hassler clients’ car accident with GEICO insured

The Youtube video below shows a near head-on collision between three Smith & Hassler clients riding in a Hyundai Elantra compact car and a GEICO insured driver in a Mitsubishi Eclipse. This serious car accident happened on July 2, 2010 in Tomball, Texas and was captured on the dashboard camera of a Tomball Police Department patrol car that was traveling behind our clients’ Hyundai. As you can see from the video, the collision happened on a rainy day. The GEICO insured’s vehicle (for reasons unknown) cross the center line of the two lane roadway and struck our client’s vehicle nearly head-on. The impact stopped our clients’ car dead and the GEICO insured’s vehicle was thrown into a water filled drainage ditch to the right of the roadway. Our clients were transported by EMS to the hospital and subsequently had follow-up care. GEICO paid their insured’s bodily injury policy limit to settle our clients’ injury claims and also paid for our client’s totaled Hyundai.

If you have been injured in an automobile accident, why not put the experienced Houston personal injury attorneys at Smith & Hassler to work for you? This video footage shows how important it can be to gather and preserve the evidence in your injury case. You can speak to an attorney at Smith & Hassler about your car, motorbike, pedestrian, 18-wheeler or other motor vehicle accident injury claim and get a free consultation. Big insurance companies have representatives working hard on their side: wouldn’t you like to have someone working hard on YOUR side?

Toddler hurt when hit by SUV in Porter, Texas

A 3-year old toddler was hurt when he was hit by an SUV in Porter, Texas which is in Montgomery County. The accident was at around 2:15PM in the 20400 block of Ravenwing Drive at Canary Lane. Investigators said the 3-year old’s mother and aunt were backing the SUV out of the driveway to go to the store when they hit the toddler: they didn’t know he was in the driveway. The 3-year old was flown by helicopter life-light to Memorial Hermann Hospital where he was listed in critical condition. The Houston Chronicle reported that the boy sustained head injuries in the accident.

Toddler hurt in auto pedestrian accident in Porter, TX is life-flighted to Memorial Hermann Hospital in critical condition

The toddler was accidentally backed-over in a tragic accident

Smith & Hassler has represented hundreds of babies, toddlers, young children and teenagers injured in car accidents and auto versus pedestrian accidents. We wish these accidents never happen, but unfortunately serious injuries to children can and do occur. The personal injury lawyers at Smith & Hassler take cases involving injury to children very seriously and represent this vulnerable group of clients aggressively. All but one of the Smith & Hassler attorneys have children of their own, many of us have young children. If your child or teenage has been injured in an accident, call or email the experienced Houston personal injury attorneys at Smith & Hassler for a no-cost, no-pressure consultation.