Vision Loss

Losing your vision is a devastating, life-changing injury. But, if your eyesight was lost as the result of someone else’s negligence, you have the right to seek justice and full compensation for all damages, including financial and emotional. A case of vision loss may be the result of head trauma in a slip and fall or a car, truck, motorcycle, bicycle, or pedestrian accident.

When an accident causes you to lose your vision, it can be terrifying. We expect our eyesight to be an aspect of our lives that we can forever rely on. But that just isn’t the case sometimes. Losing your vision means potentially losing your job, your independence, and your very way of life. We at The Lenahan Law Firm understand how traumatic that can be. That is why, if you lose your vision due to someone else’s negligence, our Dallas vision loss attorneys want to help. Call our firm at (214) 295-1008 and schedule a free evaluation.

While we all expect to experience worsening vision as we age, the sudden loss of vision or an injury directly to the eye is truly shocking. This kind of damage can happen during an auto accident, when glass and metal shrapnel are sent flying in every direction. If the shrapnel hits your eye or damages the muscles around the eye socket, then it can cause you to lose the eye altogether or experience serious vision loss.

However, you can also lose your vision due to a brain injury. Our eyes capture information by sensing light and then sending that information to our brains to be interpreted. Your eyes can function perfectly, but you still may not be able to see if that flow of information is interrupted. Even an accident as seemingly innocent as a slip-and-fall can be absolutely devastating, as it may damage the part of your brain responsible for sight.

Just as you can lose your vision from different kinds of accidents, your vision can be impacted in different ways. Total blindness is often the only kind of seeing disability we think of, as it is the most extreme, but truthfully there are many kinds of vision loss you could suffer from following an accident.