It’s not every day that Los Angeles car accident lawyers come across a case where an auto accident is caused by an aggressive dog. Yet that is exactly what apparently happened in Georgia last week.
A 14-year-old girl was killed when she was struck by a car, as she was trying to get away from an aggressive dog. The girl, Miracle Parham, was walking home when she came across the pit bull, which immediately began to act aggressive towards her. As she was backing away from the dog, fearing for her safety, she was struck by a car. Miracle died of her injuries.
Police will not be filing charges against the motorist because the girl was in the center of the road at the time of the accident. They are however, looking for the owner of the pit bull. From the information available, it seems that this accident could have been avoided if the owner of the pit bull had simply restrained his dog in his yard and prevented it from escaping.
Police efforts to trace the owner of the pit bull are going in several different directions. Neighbors in the area say there are at least two owners of aggressive pit bulls in the area. Both of these dogs have, on earlier occasions, managed to escape from their yards and make it out into the streets where they have displayed aggressive behavior towards people.
It wouldn’t surprise any Los Angeles dog bite lawyer to learn that both the owners of the dogs here deny that their dog was the one that Miracle encountered. The unfortunate part of this entire incident is how preventable it was. Owners of these breeds must understand that these animals can be extremely aggressive, and can intimidate other people, especially children, with disastrous consequences as happened here.
