Essay On Collisions

When someone crashes a car into a wall the car pushes against the wall and the wall pushes back at the car. The formulas I used in our experiment include: Gravitation Potential Energy (GPE=MGH), Force (F=GPE÷D) and acceleration (A=F÷M). The GPE depends on the energy stored in the height of an object, as an example if a heavy object was placed high up, a force is likely to be holding the object up there, the GPE also helps us work out aspects of other formulas. A force is a push or a pull, which is measured in Newtons (N), by working out the force we could find out how many newtons were pushing against the car. Using the force formula I was able to then go on and calculate the acceleration. The acceleration allowed us to see how far the cart moved and at what rate, the acceleration is calculated in

Newton’s first law indicates that an object in motion will remain in motion with the same speed along with the same direction unless acted upon by an unbalanced force. As a result, if a vehicle is going 70mph, the bodies inside are as well. If the vehicle collides with a solid wall and stops immediately, the bodies will want to continue going in the same

When the car is accelerating, there must be an equal force to cancel out the car's acceleration to make it come to a complete restrest. When the car hits a wall, the wall essentially is hitting the car as well. The acceleration of the vehicle and the force caused by the wall cancels each other out causing the car to come to a complete stop. However, the passenger without a seatbelt does not have anything opposing it. Therefore the passenger will continue to accelerate until it has a force to counter it and make it come to rest. To minimize injuries to passengers in vehicles, we must find ways to minimize the collision. What makes car crashes so deadly are that it happens so quickly, and that it occurs at high speeds. In order to minimize collisions, we must find ways to slow down our acceleration and give us more time to do

Inexperience: Inexperience can cause accidents because people don’t know what they are doing and therefore can panic and cause collisions or can drive too fast for their skill level and cause collisions in that way. The worst thing people can do is drive to slow for example if someone is driving to slow they could merge into a roadway driving to slow and be rear ended. There have been many occurrences of people driving with inexperience and causing collision due to it. The easiest way to reduce collisions caused by inexperienced drivers is to have them start on a private road and a parking lot until they are comfortable in the vehicle then having them start driving in different conditions until they are

In a head-on collision, the car and its restrained driver (or passenger) come to a rapid stop while

cceleration)). This law is in relation to crumple zones as the crumple zone decelerates and the force in which the person in the car would feel. Crumple zones and Newton’s Laws do relate to each other. As the car contents an object, it will cause the car to come to a stop or slow down gradually (1st Law). The car has a certain amount of force, which can be calculated by Newton’s 2nd Law. The result of the car’s mass and its acceleration. Because the force can be lowered by making the impact over a longer time, by making the crumple zone collapse slowly instead of an instant collision that barely decelerates, which means that the people in the car aren’t as badly affected as they would’ve been if there was no crumple zone the force is lessened

According to NHTSA, 13,941 lives were saved by seat belts in 2015 while an additional 2,814 could have been saved if properly restrained (2017). One impact of seat belt usage is reducing the risk serious or fatal injuries by about half. The CDC reported in 2009, 53% of occupants killed in crashes in the U.S. were not wearing seat belts (2014). According to data collected in 2008 by NHTSA, seat belts have saved an estimated 225,000 lives (2009). The benefit of wearing a seat belt can help increase chances of surviving a crash with little or no

For a crash to be catastrophic different factors need to be applied. The first is kinetic energy, if two cars crashed and they both were going at high speeds their kinetic energy would be very high causing the accident to be catastrophic. Also if the drivers were not wearing any seatbelts there would be no inertia stopping them. The last law is gravity, if a small car was driving at normal speed and crashed against another car the injury would be minor because the kinetic energy is not high and the masses either.

With a specific end goal to fulfill the different safety and government security regulations, a productive assessment and analysis strategy must be created. The most regularly utilized system for assessing the inhabitant protection capacity of the specific vehicle is collision testing. It can either be performed

Speeding is a common habit that happens around the world every day. The dangers of speeding are certainly well known to most drivers, either by getting a ticket for speeding from law enforcement, being part of an accident due to reckless driving or even having a loved one be a victim of excessive speeding (Upton). Speeding because one is in a rush, trying to show off to friends, or just do not think the law applies to you, are never the answers for speeding. Accidents can easily result in hitting somebody or losing control of your vehicle from speeding. Speed limits are made to keep the community safe, making the speed limit lower in populated towns, while a little higher on back roads, and highways. School zone’s have a vastly low speed limit to insure everyone is being extra cautious for children are everyone around. Even with getting away with speeding, it is still breaking the law while putting others in great danger.

When the car is moving at 70 mph, the passenger/driver is moving at 70 mph. if the car suddenly hits a wall. the car stops moving, but the passenger is still moving at 70 mph... the seat belt prevents the passenger from flying out of the windshield / cutting their head open on the windshield. (this is based on inertia)

Every day, thousands of individuals fall victim to motor vehicle accidents and obtain serious injuries. But in regards to innovations such as seat belts and airbags, this number has decreased. Safety innovations have changed throughout history. In the 1930’s, individuals were required to wear safety glasses in their vehicles, in the late 1950’s, occupants were allowed to choose whether they wanted headrests on the front seats, which we know understand to be a crucial part of a car as it prevents whiplash. More recently there have been new innovations such as tire pressure monitors and traction control which further contributes to reducing the number of roadside accidents. However, it is clear that there is still a large area for improvement.

The more time the drivers are acted on by the force, the less damage there will be. This can be seen in seatbelts. During normal circumstances, you can move easily with your seatbelts on but when the collision occurs, the retractor mechanism tightens up in order to help the drivers stay in place. However, it also loosens up a little allowing the force to spread over a period of time, causing less damage. Another area we can see the idea of impulse is through airbags. When the airbag inflates and the car comes to a stop, the driver’s head hits the airbag and the airbag deflates at a slow rates which decreases the change in momentum. This decrease of momentum makes the force when the head gets in contact with the airbag lesser than if it was

When you’re involved in an auto collision, making sure that you and your passengers are safe is your first priority. What comes next? Rockland County drivers count on FZ Perfection Auto Body & Collision of Congers to bring their cars back to life following an accident. This full-service auto repair shop helps drivers every step of the way, from towing their vehicle to submitting a claim to their insurance company. The highly trained team of auto mechanics will work hard to make sure that your car looks great and is safe to drive once again, paying attention to every detail, from the alignment of your wheels to the quality of your new paint.

Along with accidents not only comes a little headache or a broken bone, but injuries that stay with you forever such as whiplash and brain damage. Most brain damage incidents occur when you are involved in a side impact collision and the side of your head hits the glass (brain injury). Side impact airbags are just one of the many ways in which this type of life threatening injury can be avoided (whiplash). There is also whiplash, which hurls your head violently, and usually results in long term disability. Since whiplash is so hard to avoid, it can only be avoided by reducing the number of accidents on the streets. Also one of the most painful and most traumatizing injuries that we encounter in accidents are bone fractures, which occur in 65% of all accidents (Bush 11). So in turn by making these cars safer we can all avoid these painful, traumatizing, life-threatening injuries.