Category Sideswipe Accidents

A sideswipe crash can look surprisingly mild from the outside. Two vehicles scrape against each other, maybe a dented door, a cracked side mirror, and everyone walks away. That’s the story the insurance adjuster wants to tell. The medical reality…

Two vehicles brush sides on I-70, or maybe on a narrow stretch of Highway 40 outside St. Louis. Mirrors clip. Paint scrapes. Sometimes a tire catches, and one car spins out entirely. What happens next, legally speaking, often comes down…

The moment two cars scrape sides, something strange happens. It looks small from the outside. A dented door, a streak of paint, maybe a broken mirror. Yet the people inside often walk away with wrenched necks, bruised ribs, and a…

Two cars are traveling side by side. A moment of inattention, a drifting steering wheel, and metal meets metal. Sideswipes look less dramatic than a head-on hit or a rear-end smash, but they can still wreck your car, your week,…

Few crashes feel as confusing in the first few seconds as a side-to-side collision. One moment, you are cruising along I-70, and the next, your mirror is gone, your door is scraped, and you are not entirely sure who drifted…