Car Accidents

According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), almost 50% of interesction accidents occur because a driver either unintentionally disobeys a traffic signal, misunderstoods other driver’s signal, and/or deliberately try to beat the red light as they are in a rush. An additional 18% of accidents occur because drivers deliberately drive over yellow light on intersections and 36% of intersection accidents were caused by a driver who drive over a red light.

Among all car accidents, one of the most incovenient and has the most damage dealt are highway crashes and intersection accidents which involves multiple vehicles. Common causes of intersection car crashes are disobeying traffic signal and miscommunication of vehicles’ signals which result to failure of yielding the right of way. Running over a red light due to rush and hoping to get through the intersection on a yellow light and unintentional misunderstanding traffic signals are also root of causing a intersection car crash.

When involved in a car accident, there are countless possibilities on how victims could sustain their injuries. Range of injuries include cuts, broken bones, bruises, burns, possibility of amputation, and even head and neck injuries which could lead to either brain damage or spinal cord issues.

In this blog, we are going to talk about the array of possiblities what forms of brain damage a victim in a car accident could sustain as in the field of medicine, brain injuries are deemed to have the highest fatality recorded in terms of damage sustained in a car accident, one of the most life-changing injury that one could have from one event and we are about to shed light on why drivers should take premeasures when driving due to taking these adversities.

One cause of the many causes of car accidents are external factors which could affect the severity and outcome of a car accident, they are identified as either mechanical errors or the uncontrollable environmental risks or factors.

In general, environmental factors in car accidents refer to the entities contributing causes to crashes which are not charged or out of human control. Despite that, there are few types of environmental factors that are responsible for or partly makes up the whole car accident. Though, these specific crashes caused by these factors are preventable through prevention and countermeasures some tend to be negligent about it.

A car seat or child safety seat is a seat specifically used and designed for child use and used to protect children from the pose of risk of any incoming car accidents and keeping them away from being involved in fatal accident and mitigate sustenance of injuries.

As a parent or guardian, child’s safety and health is a major priority which is more heightened when parents travel with their child as common knowledge, traveling along road with a vehicle, despite offers high convenience, it entails exposure to few risks that may render people along road to have chances to sustain significant injuries and even death.

Major factor that keeps drivers being involved in a car accident too often is the lack of visibility. Obstruction of vision could take in any form such as night time driving which makes a driver to have limited vision even with provision of light from vehicle, bad weather condition such as occurrence of rain or snowfall, broken wiper which lessens car’s ability to clean up dirt or liquid accumulated during a travel, and even obstructions such as trees and large signs could diminish a driver’s vision at an extent as well.

Accidents are called accidents because they are unexpected and unintentional, some may be minor and barely affect one’s financial status and well-being but car accidents on the other hand, are on different caliber as either minor or major car accidents could least result in bad sustenance of injuries and worst could result in fatalities, etc.

Yearly, thousands of car accidents happen every day along roads of United States which could total up to 6 million auto accidents with different severity are recorded yearly according to statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). In the silver lining, even with the numbers of car accident happen yearly, major numbers of these car accidents are nonfatal but has chances of rendering victims or people involved to sustain permanent injuries.

Car collisions, specifically two vehicle car collision, doesn’t always mean that a car one is driving is going against or made crashed to another car. Car collisions can also be a scenario where a car crashed into a inanimate objects or living thing that isn’t human for example, trees and wild animals.

Animal-involved car crash is so common in U.S. that it is a known risk as in some states it has led to more than 50,000 crashes involving deers, livestocks, and other wild animals that cross roadways in surprise which led to those numbers and records state that it is consistently that high.

On our previous blogs, we have cleared up those risks and hazards sprout up once an individual take his/her vehicle along road together with another road users. These risks are usually classified as mechanical, environmental, and human errors which could lead to either minor and/or major accidents and is determined through the factors being in play.

Usually, these risks stem from any form of negligence which are all preventable. One of these driving dangers that is caused by negligence is drunk driving, one of the world’s leading cause of car accidents and has recorded devastating fatalities and permanent injuries. As in 2016, almost 10,500 drivers have died in alcohol-related crashes, which equatest to contributing of 28% of total traffic crash related deaths in United States. Among all of those numbers of fatalities linked to impaired driving 214 (17%) were children aged 0 to 14 years old out of the more than 1,200 deaths recorded in the same year.

Summer is approaching real fast and teens are out for school at that point, as months close its gap to summer kids and teens are looking forward to enjoy that specific duration of time out from school planning for their trip destinations for relaxation and breather.

As most teens in the state has more access and knowledge of driving vehicles that they usually use when going on summer trips, this special moment for them as well became a reason for the spike of car accidents in the records in the specific two or three months of no school. Since it is given that car accident is dangerous and is a constant leading cause of death of all ages, let alone summer time which most drivers are teens and these specific age group of drivers were known to have a ominous records in terms of involvement of accident.