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Single Vehicle Crash – What You Need to Know From a Legal Standpoint

The recent devastating single vehicle crash in Vaughan in which two teenagers were tragically killed has brought into sharp focus the need to analyze and prevent further such catastrophic events. This particular incident took place on a rural road and there were at least six occupants who were trapped in the vehicle following the crash and the entire community was plunged into grief. What Are Single Vehicle Crashes? The term is self-explanatory, and single vehicle crashes involve just one vehicle and the ones injured are the driver and passengers of this vehicle. If innocent bystanders, pedestrians or bicyclists are injured, this is not termed to be a single vehicle collision. Usually, such collisions involve run-off-road accidents (as the Vaughan case seems to have been), accidents that happened due to fallen debris or obstructions on the road, roll-over accidents or those that involve hitting or being hit by an animal. One of the important factors to remember is that in the ca