Paul Cannon has practiced personal injury trial law since He is a Shareholder, trial lawyer and online marketing manager at Simmons and Fletcher, P.
His legal writings have been published by the Texas Bar Journal, Business. He has been asked to give educational talks and media interviews regarding personal injury law issues. View all posts by Paul Cannon. Who is at Fault For a Sideswipe Accident? Table of Contents show. Author Paul Cannon. While many sideswipe accidents only cause property damage, including unsightly scratches and jammed doors, many other sideswipe accidents can be deadly, especially those when the cars are both traveling at a high rate of speed.
Sideswipe accidents on an interstate highway can be deadly, because the reaction of many drivers is to immediately correct their action or move away from the car that is impacting them.
Often, this knee-jerk reaction causes the driver to jerk the wheel and lose control, causing head-on or rear-end collisions, and in the worst scenarios, the car to flip over.
These types of accidents are notorious for making drivers collide with other objects, too. This is when it becomes critical to have a seasoned accident investigator or legal professional to look carefully at all of the evidence involved in the crash to assign blame. Likewise, insurance companies can find it easy to dispute a claim in a sideswipe accident due to the lack evidence to substantiate the claim. An experienced Houston car accident lawyer can help you reconstruct your accident and formulate an argument that can get you the compensation you deserve.
A sideswipe accident occurs unexpectedly and is especially dangerous because of its unpredictable nature. The severity of the injuries will often depend on the location of the collision on the vehicle and the specific vehicles involved. Aside from the doors, the sides of vehicles have few safety features to add protection and prevent injury.
During a frontal crash, the engine and airbags absorb the impact to some extent, while in a rear-end crash, the trunk acts as a barrier between occupants and a vehicle striking from behind.
However, the sides of the vehicle always remain exposed. Due to this, passenger vehicle occupants seated on the side of impact often endure the worst impact. Furthermore, sideswiping can cause a vehicle to collide with an object or another car on or beside the road. A sideswipe can happen between two moving vehicles. A vehicle may also sideswipe a parked car or stationary object such as a guardrail or a concrete median.
Like rear-end accidents, you may not think a sideswipe collision is much to worry about. But the reality is, sideswipe accidents account for 27, injuries and 2, deaths every year, according to research by the Insurance Institute of Highway Safety. These data included behaviors that commonly lead to car accidents like drug and alcohol use, road rage, speeding, reckless and distracted driving. Sideswipes are a typical example of what can happen when negligent drivers are around.
Sideswipes commonly happen when a rear vehicle is trying to pass the front car, or when the car at fault starts moving into the other vehicle's lane. These accidents are usually the result of some form of distracted or reckless driving, but other common causes include:. Tired, drowsy, or drunk drivers may swerve, fail to see blind spots when changing lanes, or practice unsafe driving.
Any situation that compromises the driver's awareness of their vehicle and the cars around them can easily result in an unfortunate sideswipe collision. Road rage can also lead to sideswiped car accidents. An enraged driver will tend to be more hasty and aggressive about changing lanes, overtaking vehicles in front of them.
Throw in texting, failure to check side-view mirrors or blind spots, and there's a high potential for sideswipes, if not a more serious auto accident. The first thing to do after a sideswipe is call Even if the accident was minor, you must call the police and file a police report. When the Autobots went to retrieve their fallen comrade Bumblebee from Sparkplug Witwicky 's garage, they were attacked by Decepticons.
Against his brother's better judgment, Sideswipe employed his energon-gobbling rocket pack to take the fight right to the Decepticon jets. The 'Cons were driven off, but without a source of fuel to recharge on, several Autobots, including Sideswipe, were left virtually empty after the battle, and were sidelined.
Power Play! Though he could not go on missions, Sideswipe was still able to defend the Ark from invasion when the Decepticons came right to his doorstep. He was confronted by that junk-punk Rumble 's earthquake-making ability and turned the tables on him, overpowering Rumble with his pile-driver punches. Raiders of the Last Ark. Sideswipe's inactivity continued even longer after Shockwave took over the Ark and deactivated all the Autobots in the ship.
After Ratchet regained control of the Ark for the Autobots, he was able to revive Sideswipe to full functionality in short order, and their new deal for fuel with G. Blackrock kept them energized. Dinobot Hunt. Sideswipe would eventually be seen again at the feud fight between Blaster and Grimlock on Earth's Moon. Sideswipe was part of Grimlock's firestormers, acting as a raiding party against territories controlled by Jhiaxus ' Cybertronians.
War Without End! He had a more prominent role in subsequent events than he had had in the past. Sideswipe was present for the last battle against the Swarm , but his final fate is uncertain.
A Rage in Heaven! Sideswipe, Sunstreaker, Trailbreaker , Roulette and Shadow Striker returned to the technorganic Cybertron after a prolonged journey and were welcomed by the Maximals. Unicron abducted these newly-returned Transformers, in addition to many others from different times and universes, to start a final confrontation against Primus.
Sideswipe and Sunstreaker were rebuilt into new forms, corrupted by Unicron's influence, and set against one another in the Cauldron. Before either brother could land a killing blow, however, the fight was broken up by Optimus Primal. Sideswipe then fought his way out of Unicron alongside many other Transformers rescued by Primal and returned to Cybertron. Sideswipe was one of the few Autobots to continue operating under that title during the Dark Ages of Cybertron.
Sideswipe was one of the elite warriors serving under Prowl and as such was chosen for the mission that sent him against the newly constructed Decepticon battle station, Trypticon.
Of course the mission was a failure, but that isn't likely to have discouraged Sideswipe. Sideswipe was part of Operation Liberation in , a joint human-Autobot effort to defeat the Earth-bounded Decepticons. At the end it was a success, and the captured Decepticons along with the Autobots and a human crew departed Earth en route to Cybertron in the Ark II. The ship, however, was sabotaged and exploded upon liftoff. A few years later, Megatron and other Transformers, including Autobots, were seen causing havoc.
It was discovered that Lazarus , a scientist who participated in the Ark II project, was responsible for the sabotage of the ship and the resurrection of several Transformers under his control via technological tampering. Prime Directive issue 1.
General Hallo of the US Military contacted Spike Witwicky to ask him if he could do something to help them reactivate Optimus Prime, whom they had recovered locked in a state of stasis.
Spike managed to reactivate Optimus with a portion of the Matrix that Optimus had given him prior the ill-fated journey of the Ark II. Optimus subsequently went to the Arctic and used the Matrix to reactivate several Transformers, including Sideswipe. Prime Directive issue 2. Sideswipe accepted the new task at hand and fought alongside his brother when the Autobots faced the Decepticons at Lazarus' ruined base punching Starscream in the face for attacking Wheeljack before Hallo betrayed the Autobots by attempting to destroy both factions with a nuclear weapon.
Prime Directive issue 3 The Autobots survived when Megatron's technovirus absorbed the blast, and Sideswipe helped his comrades recover the captive Autobots imprisoned inside the base. Prime Directive issue 4. When Superion was taken down, Sideswipe and Sunstreaker heroically though foolishly charged at Devastator , and they were smashed between the giant Constructicon's palms for their trouble.
After Optimus Prime brought Devastator down with a blast to the head, Sideswipe was restrained by the surviving Decepticons. Prime Directive issue 5 However, through human intervention, Optimus Prime freed his Autobots and the battle was rejoined. Sideswipe tag-teamed with his brother to pummel Soundwave , though the Decepticons eventually escaped when Superion sacrificed his life to save the city from General Hallo's unauthorized nuclear missile launch.
Prime Directive issue 6. He was deactivated in battle with Bruticus when Starscream and his followers returned to Earth, and was left to rust at the bottom of a lake. Night of the Combaticons Warpath and Bumper later dredged him and the others up, only to be taken into custody by Earth Defense Command. Jazz, Sideswipe, and Sunstreaker were reactivated to help Marissa Faireborn and her team in investigating an outbreak of Insecticons in small-town America.
Infestation After routing and capturing the Decepticons, Sideswipe and the other Autobots joined up with the returning team from Cybertron under Prowl's command, and began construction of Autobot City.
The Route of All Evil. Sideswipe's just feeling small standing under Nova Prime 's crotch.
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