Common Injuries of a Motorcycle Accident
Common Motorcycle Injuries
The State of New Jersey has good legislation in place to prevent motorcycle accidents, injuries, and deaths. Lundy Law urges you to obey New Jersey law, drive defensively, wear protective gear, and maintain your motorcycle. Invest the time and money that will help you avoid life-changing accidents. Unfortunately, as the motorcycle accident attorneys at Lundy Law know all too well, motorcyclists have very little protection in a crash.
What is the risk of riding a motorcycle?
It is common sense that New Jersey motorcyclists are at much greater risk of injury or death than people who travel in other motor vehicles. Cars and trucks weigh far more than motorcycles. Four wheels offer much more stability on the road than two wheels. Cars have, in addition to their bulk, frames that surround passengers and offer protection from rollover or impact. Most automobile passengers are held in their seats by seatbelts, surrounded by padded surfaces and in the event of serious wrecks, cushioned by airbags.
Motorbikers in accidents are much more vulnerable. Lundy Law accident lawyers have helped New Jersey motorcyclists get compensation for injuries that can be painful, disabling, physically and psychologically devastating and sometimes fatal.
What injuries are most common in motorcycle accidents?
- Road Rash - The least serious, but most frequent, injuries are road rashes, which are nasty abrasions suffered when motorcyclists are thrown from their bikes to slide and scrape across rough pavement. Abrasions are difficult to clean and cover, and they are extremely painful.
- Bruising - Although we usually think nothing of being bruised, deep, all-over bruising is serious. Even internal organs can be bruised in motorcycle accidents. There is little medical treatment for deep bruising, except rest, time and limited physical exertion.
- Lacerations - More serious than pavement abrasions, lacerations or cuts and puncture wounds caused in accidents are a serious threat to motorcyclists. Lacerations require medical treatment to stop bleeding, have stitch wounds closed, and prevent infection.
- Broken bones, dislocated joints and sprains - On a motorcycle, your hands, arms, feet and legs are totally exposed. Hit the pavement the wrong way, try to catch yourself in a fall or get crushed under a heavy piece of equipment and you’re very likely to break bones. In bad motorcycle accidents, riders sometimes suffer serious shoulder and hip injuries.
- Amputations - Sadly, motorcyclists in serious accidents are vulnerable to amputations, either immediately on impact or later in surgery because of injuries that are too severe to repair.
- Injuries to the back and spine - On a motorcycle, your back is completely exposed. Sometimes, motorcycle operators and passengers suffer back or spinal injuries that can, even when treated properly, lead to a lifetime of pain and disability.
- Head Injuries - There is a reason most states, including New Jersey, require that motorcyclists and their passengers wear federal Department of Transportation certified helmets. Most deaths in motorcycle accidents are caused by head injuries. Helmets significantly reduce traumatic head injuries and fatalities in motor cycle accidents.
- Psychological Trauma - If a New Jersey motorcycle accident is very severe, accident victims may suffer psychological trauma. Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is an anxiety disorder caused by intense or terrifying experiences in which severe physical harm occurs or is threatened. Victims need help if they become emotionally numb, develop insomnia, or experience flashbacks of the accident.
What are the results of motorcycle accidents?
Approximately 80% of reported motorcycle accidents nation-wide result in injury or death. The motorcycle accident attorneys at Lundy Law in New Jersey are concerned about accident victims because we know that these injuries often require even much more than trips to emergency rooms for stitches or casts. Some devastating motorbike accident wounds require major surgery, physical therapy, medication regimens, and vocational rehabilitation. Motorcycle accident survivors may lose time at work or even lose their jobs. They may be severely traumatized by their accidents. Personal injury and death cause financial, emotional, and mental strain for victims and their families.
Turn to Lundy Law if you are in a New Jersey motorcycle accident. You deserve the best New Jersey motorcycle accident attorneys. Lundy Law has represented motorcyclists for 50 years. Our lawyers in New Jersey know how to work with difficult insurance companies. Lundy Law fights energetically to recover the maximum compensation for lost wages, pain and suffering, medical bills, and other motorcycle accident-related expenses.
