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Car Wreck Injury And Insurance Companies

September 7th, 2011

Today I will do my best to explain why the car accident injuries can be severe, although it seems to minor damage.

This is called “inertia”.

Definition of inertia – the property of matter by which it retains its state of rest or its velocity in a straight line until they acted on by an external force.

What this means is that if you travel 30 miles per hour and your car is hit head, your body will go still have 30 mph, when your car will slow down. In fact, your body will keep going at this speed until an outside force (seat belts, dash, steering wheel) keeps you. Well, does not sound very healthy, right?

We speak over 30 mph for one minute. It’s really not look like much when it comes to speed. Especially since the current speed record is located at 760 mph! But when you consider that the shark can swim up to 25 miles per hour. The world record holder over 100m, Usain Bolt, increase to up to 23.35 mph. And most famous horse race ever, the Secretariat, on average, about 37 miles per hour. So you see, 30 mph is not necessarily a low speed and certainly not too small to have injuries in a car accident at that speed.
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