Car Accidents

From previous blogs, it is reiterated how car crashes occur by its contributing factors and its several forms as well as effects per form. Generally, it deals variety of damage from physical injuries such as fractures, internal bleeding and organ damage, broken bones that may lead to amputations, head, neck, spinal cord injuries or traumatic brain injuries (TBI) as well as potential emotional and mental harm to those who have recently experienced it. The inevitible effects of car crash includes as well the potential of high damage to one’s financial aspect.

In most road accidents, specifically, rear-end and front-end car accidents, the first part on the car that would obviously take most of the initial damage, may it be minor or major accident, is the bumper. Bumpers were said to be designed as essential and initial protection system in most car as a feature by directly receiving initial damage from a car crash, no matter if it is minor or major. In addition, bumpers were engineered to protect the fuel container, hood, grill, radiators, and other parts, apart from driver and its occupants.

In some situation in a light collision, its depiction how bumpers are affected is that the plastic, which is the bumper is made of, is cracked or even just scrapes the paint when involved in a single vehicle collision or low speed traffic collisions. In serious collisions, the bumper would likely to split and even be thrown away due to speed and may affect the latter part of the car.

Involvement in a car accident could lead to multiple adverse outcomes such as threatening of you and your passengers’ heath, dealing with financial and emotional stress, and credibility as a driver. When we mean jeopardized health, it means the posing of many types of injuries that one have the chance to sustain when involved in an accident including fractures and broken bones, road rashes, lacerations, possible amputation, head injuries, and even death. One of the least talked about and receives less limelight when talking about which injury deals more damage is nerve injuries.

In terms of number in traffic accidents, minor accidents are significantly frequent compared to major and fatal crashes, but reported damages for both are rivaling in terms in property and physical damage as well as its reported delayed complications that resulted in disabilities and deaths. Minor accidents can happen literally everywhere such as in parking lots, highways, small roads, near house, etc., it can take in any form such such as rear-end and front bumps too.

Traffic accidents are unexpected and surprising, some people involved in a car crash would be left startled and in shock and result in fleeing from the scene. Even though it is a general knowledge that fleeing from a car accident, either you caused it or not, is illegal and is considered as an hit and run case of offense. Drunk people, amateur drivers, and illegal and “tag-less” cars are most common who are involved in a hit and run case.

According to the National Safety Council (NSC), the frequency of occurence of parked car related accidents is atleast one in five all across in U.S., it means that there are around 50,000 car crashes every year and it is found out that there were 6,000 people were injured in parked car related accidents in same time frame.

Most of parked car accidents are unintentional, factors contributing for it to occur such as populated car lots, tight parking spaces, and obstructed vision can make a parked car accident to occur but that doesn’t mean when no one saw that accident, driver at-fault could flee freely. That’s when the at-fault driver could make an offense for himself even if nobody was harmed.

In low speed car accidents and sometimes in high speed accidents, sustenance of internal injuries and bleeding ought to be expected by victims that is why they tend to seek medical attention to check one. The major reasoning why low speed car accidents has higher tendencies to cause victims to sustain internal injuries and bleeding compared to high speed accidents is because chances of hitting victims’ body on hard and blunt part of the car when a straight yet violent impact strikes whereas when a strong and violent impact from high speed car crash could render death and would likely to throw off victims from the car or the car itself. Difference is wide yet the chances of sustaining injuries is similar.

It is repititively stated that car accidents are caused by multiple factors, majority of these are namely; dsitracted driving, driving under influence of drugs and alcohol, mechanical, human error and drowsy driving. This one specifically, drowsy driving, is a form of human error where it mostly occur when a driver has not gathered enough hours of sleep prior to driving. Other causes of deprivation of sleep of a driver could root from sleeping disorders that were left unchecked, medications, drowsiness caused by alcohol or drugs, and working parterns.

From high speed causes of accidents to mechanical errors such as blowouts, causes of accidents ranges widely and classified as intentional and unintentional which makes it hard to predict when an accident happen next. Expecting large damages when an high speed crash happened is normal but expecting minor injuries from low speed or low impact traffic collision is pretty wrong and could be risky.

From all those car accidents that had happened in the past few years and the accidents that happened now, they all have something in common, they are caused by something adverse, either intentional or unintentional factors. These factors ranges from small to large scale factors and each presence of these factors can deal as well minor to major damages to people involved and if there are many factors are involved, it could render to deaths and massive property damage which should be look out for.