Car Accidents

Usually, when news reports a car accident, we usually see two cars collided or being involved which caused by either one of them and they are usually the major car crashes when we think about it. Unfortunately, single car crash, a type of car crash where it only involves one car and usually it collides with a road structure or a nearby house or establishment, receives lesser limelight hence, lesser attention to bring road users about the “subtle” risk and what are its causes to their attention and make them aware about it so they can advertently avoid it rather than being involved in one as they may practice some factors that causes it.

With the provision of footages and with newer features of cameras these days such as clearer resolution, human identification, and GPS tracing, utilizing them for their purposes are much more easier than ever. Like for security and safety, culprits are hard to find even provided or handed assistance from witnesses by chance and even more without it but with cameras spreaded in a town, it would be much more convenient for police investigators to trace culprits especially in fast paced incidents such as car crashes. CCTVs and surveillance footages are more relied on by police investigators because of their accuracy and consistencty wherein human witnesses often see things and has their own perspective.

Following a minor to severe any form of car crash would lead to an expected sustenance of injuries which ranges from severe traumatic brain injuries (TBI) up to the minor road rashes. Among all of these injuries that are sustained in a car accident, the most annoying to deal with and hardest to recover from is burn injuries.

Although burn injuries occur lesser compared to other car accident injuries, they have the highest potential to develop complications such even with little to no conditions as they are prone to infection and topping off other conditions such as diabetes and ulcer which makes it deadly on extreme cases. Aside from those major possibilities, the most common sensation that victims who have experienced such is their suffering from extreme pain, fear of developing infections and affecting their other health conditions, and their ability to make living as they rendered immobile if they sustained the burn on limbs or even on body as they are having difficulty with moving to start with.

These accidents similarities to its causes and results but their differences is that how the negligent party made the accident occur and how heavy would the case or lawsuit would be. But, there is this type of car accident has involves large trucks and non-compact cars which usually results in fatalities and extreme outcomes known as rollover accidents.

A rollover accident is a type of car crash wherein a vehicle flips over onto side or upside down, this usually happens when vehicles with high center of gravity or heavy ones started speeding up and messed up like trucks or SUV. On most reports, given that it involves high speed and heavy vehicles, it is considered as single vehicle accident as it doesn’t collide with other cars.

Hazard lights are pair of lights that usually doesn’t come in the car itself and requires to be installed in most countries, but recent cars has this feature. It is described as combination of flashing red and orange lights wherein its purpose is to warn incoming drivers that your car turned off unexpectedly or has slowed down due to few factors.

Hazard lights provide a significant easy to receive warning towards other road user that your vehicle has stumbled few issues and is unable to move and might be an obstacle on the road, it is one way to establish communication and avoid misunderstanding which may lead to road rage and fighting over yielding the way and in addition, people surrounding the disabled vehicle may help you as well to avoid inconvenience.

Car accidents are given stressful even from someone who have just witness a car accident and stressful is an understatement coming from someone who have just experienced a car accident. There are many sprouting emotions and mental phenomenon that could be felt before, during, and especially after an accident. According to people who have first-handedly experienced car accident, mood swings that translates to anger up to guilt is experienced, the anxiety and breakdowns also manifests at some point following an accident. At extreme extent, disrupted sleeping patterns may develop and nightmares are experienced too, the consideration of phobias of riding or seeing a car is also possible too.

Car accidents in United States occur just literally everyday, even in 2016 where industrialization and globalization and so does land transportation has just started to popularize, 102 people were killed everyday and more than 3 million cases of sustenance of injuries from 34,436 traffic crashes and in the said year that appeared from data gathered by National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). Given that there are various forms of accident, this also means that victims and people invovled may obtain injuries and way of their demise could be different from other and in some cases, even post-recuperation, there are lingering effects depending on the manner did the accident happened.

In most states in United States has law that protects traffic crash victims from at-fault drivers who flee from the scene of the said accident where victims are left confused and unprovided with information and uncovered medical and property expenses. According to police, this act is also considered as hit and run and according to law, hit and run is illegal and must be pursued for the victims to be given a chance to exchange information with the at-fault and the at-fault should cover the victims’ medical coverage until recuperated meaning that hit and run laws function as preventing an at-fault from escaping liabilities dealt from the crash.

Among all U.S. states, Ohio lies among little-moderate or among middle ranks when talking about occurrence of accidents per year, though it is not a good news nor a bad news, it is still worrying for its citizens knowing that there is a moderate numbers car accidents, may it be minor or fatal accident, are occurring along Ohioan roads and that they may be fall victim or to cause one and put themselves in danger.

Along U.S. roads, there is an estiamted 38,000 people die every year caused by various forms of car crashes induced by various factors, human made or unexpected factors as there is a fatalitiy rate of 12.4 deaths per 100,000 in traffic-related occurrances among all its citizens, nonetheless the age, ranging from 1-54 years old. There is a huge record of whopping 4.4 million injuries that should be immediately given proper medical care. All of these, unfortunately, are avoidable and preventable, but it is said that victims have used different dealings against different type of accident which is wrong and has less probability to prevent it.