SUV Rollover

Sports utility vehicles have a high center of gravity and are the most unstable vehicles on the road. In addition, very few SUVs meet the National Highway Traffic and Safety Administration roof safety standards for automobiles.

The primary danger occurs when taking emergency action after steering in one direction, perhaps to avoid a head-on collision or an animal on the roadway, and then being forced to rapidly steer in the opposite direction. The result is a rollover.

An SUV without roll protection is what makes an SUV rollover accident so dangerous. Although SUVs were made for the purpose of driving off the road, manufacturers anticipated the use of SUVs as a family car but did not include roll bars. While the body of an SUV remained the same as it would if used for driving off-road, the removal of the roll bars combined with the high clearance and high center of gravity make rollover accidents that much more fatal.

In SUV rollover cases it is important to prove that a common evasive maneuver at highway speeds, which would never cause a car to roll, caused an SUV to roll and that the roof was not designed to protect the occupants in a rollover that was likely.

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