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.
The most common injuries in motor vehicle accidents must be whiplash.
Whiplash injury: Hyperextension (over-stretching) injury to the neck, often the result of the back, as from a fast-moving vehicle hit by a car accident. The mechanics of the cervical lesions are probably as follows: The victim may be first pushed or accelerated forward, pushing the body forward, but the head remains behind momentarily, rocking back and forth, and certain muscles and ligaments can be stretched or torn. These muscles, in an action for a contract to Reflex head forward, avoid excessive injury. There may be overcompensation when the head moves in one direction before the vehicle is braking. This may be the head violently forward rock, stretching and tearing more muscles and ligaments. -Medicinenet.com
New information from recent studies has recently emerged. It seems that the mechanism of whiplash easily from your seat (eventually cause problems in the lower back), repealed will be a rapid and strong expansion of the neck, then drops back into the seat of the seat belt you start with the quick and sharp bend in the neck. Basically, you can load one sprain / lower back for lifting in and out and back to your seat. You may have a chest sprain / strain of the position of the seat belt. And it is obvious that the neck is hurt more for some time. If the wreck is serious enough, you can also have serious tearing of the ligaments and connective tissue on the front and back of the neck. But even in minor accidents, you may suffer so-called micro-tearing of the ligaments. This means that pain and scar tissue, the potential is not quite clear from an MRI have causes. This is the main argument for the treatment and full rehabilitation of road accident injuries.
I would say that is probably the most common whiplash patients we see in car wreck. The problem is that insurance companies use them a little equation to estimate how much they must pay for injuries. This equation assumes rolled into force, with what speed the car. Although there are many studies refute these tactics, they continue to use it. They refuse anyone exactly what the equation is to say, but still use them. For example, you could use a BMW and have very little damage to the car itself, but the damage is $ 4,000. Or you can drive a car, 15 years have a lot of damage, which is only $ 1500. And it is thought that the insurance losses in the use of their equation, which affected the distribution of injuries. It is not a good thing. I said before in this blog and I’ll say it again. For this reason, you should be the likelihood that a lawyer, call a car wreck, if the damage is nothing about a collision.
