California is one of the leading states for death and injury to bicyclists, and California law requires any bicyclist under the age of 18 to wear a helmet to help prevent serious injury or death from a bicycle accident.
If there is a bicycle under your Christmas tree this year, parents should:
- Purchase a helmet that meets the safety requirements of the American National Standards Institute, the Snell Memorial Foundation or the American Society for Testing and Materials.
- Make sure your child wears the helmet flat on top of the head, not tilted at an angle.
- Make sure the helmet fits snugly and does not limit a child’s field of vision.
- Make sure the helmet chinstrap is fastened securely.
- Discard a helmet that has already been involved in an accident or has been damaged in any other fashion.
If you or a loved one is involved in an accident that causes death or serious injury, call Callahan & Blaine, California’s Premier Litigation Firm. We are one of the leading catastrophic personal injury law firms in the state of California. In fact, in the last five years alone our lawyers have obtained over $1.5 billion in verdicts and settlements, including a record breaking $50 Million settlement against the City of Dana Point, which has been certified as the largest personal injury settlement in the history of the United States.
Callahan & Blaine also has numerous other record-breaking verdicts and settlement in Orange County, including the largest jury verdict in the history of Orange County ($934 Million), the largest class action settlement ($38 Million), the largest insurance bad faith judgment ($58 Million) and the largest employment law settlement ($38 Million). Callahan & Blaine also has recent personal injury settlements of $28 Million for a driver who was hit by a runaway truck wheel on the freeway, a $7.25 million settlement for a man who was run over trying to board a city bus, a $7.0 million settlement for a bicyclist who was struck by a newspaper delivery truck, and a $6.0 Million settlement for a bicyclist struck by an airport shuttle bus.
If you or someone you know has suffered a catastrophic injury or died as the result of an accident, please contact our California law firm for expert legal counsel.
