Injuries During A Car Crash

It seems each year that the automobile accidents increase, and there are a high number of death and injuries that follow. Records show that nearly 1.3 million people die in road crashes and 20-50 million are injured. More than half of all traffic death occur among young adults 15-44 years of age( ). Accidents can happen at any time and can be caused by many reasons such as rain, speeding, drug, or alcohol. An automobile accident is what brought the 16-year-old boy to the emergency to be care for by the medical staff there. The patient was seen by the ER staff for several hours, and he was admitted later in the inpatient unit for observation. The next morning when staff tried waking the patient he was died.

Background and Audience Relevance: According to National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, in 2015, about thirty-five hundred people were killed, and four hundred thousand were injured in car crashes.

There are many causes of crashes and fatalities on the road. One cause of death on

Car accidents are a leading cause of both morbidity and disability. A car accident is said to have occurred when a motor vehicle collides with another motor vehicle, a pedestrian, an animal, a structure, a building or road equipment.

Car crashes are one of the leading causes for death in many countries all around the world. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), “About 1.24 million people die each year as a result of road traffic crashes.” This number is increasing rapidly and the WHO predicts it will reach 1.9 million deaths annually by 2020. To put that into perspective, that is almost like the entire population of Latvia dieing out over the course of a year because of car crashes. Speeding and driving under the influence (DUI) are two other prominent reasons for road traffic collisions. It would be close to impossible to stop all crashes, so the best thing we can do now is to do what we can in order to protect the people facing these tragic occurrences.

The facts are astounding and horrific. According to the Association for Safe and International Travel, nearly 1.3 million individuals are killed in road related crashes each year. This accounts for 3,287 deaths each day. Among the statistics, is the fact, that car related accidents are the leading cause of death among young adults ages 15 through 29. It is also the second leading cause of death worldwide among young people ages 5 through 14. Unless action is taken, car related deaths are expected to become the fifth leading cause of death by 2030.

Motor vehicle travel remains the foremost mode of transportation not only in the United States, but in all countries, which provides a great degree of flexibility. However, for all its advantages, injuries resulting from motor vehicle crashes are still the leading cause of death for individuals under the age of 27. As many have witnessed, accidents can arise at any time and occur about every 60 seconds. When operating motor vehicles a person increases the probability of triggering an accident or being involved in one, with that in mind, the worst outcome can take place. Fatalities are a reality and the worst aftermath of an accident, as well as, the most devastating. Fatalities on the highway occur about every 16 minutes, according to

Car crashes are an obvious problem, Many people fear getting into one. The slightest distraction while driving could be the end of your life. Of course there are also airbags, which are good for the driver and passenger. But what about the kids in the backseat. What if the airbag doesn’t work in time? There also seems to be more accidents in traffic than there are usually. Is it because everyone is trying to get in front of one another and not think about what could happen? Is it because nobody wants to be stuck in one spot for hours on end? Luckily I have some solutions.

Imagine this, class gets out and it’s the end of summer session. You’re all excited, ready to finally relax after a long 8 weeks. A friend invites you to a party 15 minutes away from your house. You and your friend get in the car, but did not buckle your seatbelts and drove off. Your friend turns to you and says, “ Buckle your seatbelt.” You response, “ We’re only driving for a couple of blocks. Nothing is going to happen to us.” When suddenly a car driving on the opposite side of the street crushes into your car. The next thing you know you are in the hospital with server fractures. Meanwhile, your friend only has a few scratches. You were one of the few fortunate ones to survive a car accident without wearing a seatbelt. The seatbelt remains one of the most overlooked devices that can preserve lives. Wearing seat belts is essential to increase the survival rate in car accidents, however not everyone agrees with the importance of wearing a set belt. Three important aspects of wearing a seatbelt are help spread out any force from a collision,

The ranks and percent distributions of fatal versus non-fatal injuries are very different. While the top 5 ranked causes add to 73% for both fatal and non-fatal injuries, only one category, motor vehicle accidents, is in the top 5 of both fatal and non-fatal injury groups. Also, motor vehicle accidents cause 39% of injury deaths but only 9.7% of all non-fatal injuries. Since there appears to be very little correlation between fatal and non-fatal injury categories in their percent distributions, fatal and non-fatal injuries must be approached as different

While many cars are designed to withstand damage up to 12 miles per hour, the same can not be said of the human body. Even a minor car accident can cause pain and suffering to those involved. Some studies have shown that whiplash can occur in a car accident when a vehicle has only been traveling three miles per hour. A chiropractor can help relieve pain and heal injuries no matter how minor or major the car accident was.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), USA estimates more than 28,000 people survived vehicle crashes and are still alive due to the presence of frontal airbags in their vehicles as of 1 January 2009. This data has been accrued over time from crashes and fatalities on America’s highways and side streets. This paper will examine these statistics and compare information with this data.

Your best bet for staying safe on the roads today is to be constantly aware of your surroundings and other vehicles, pedestrians, and bikes. Sometimes even the greatest vigilance on our part is not enough though, leaving many in the US—and Florida—the unexpected victims of car crashes. And no matter the extent of your injuries, being involved in any type of car accident can be highly traumatic.

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.

Car accidents can happen to drivers anytime, anywhere. "According to the National Safety Council, which stated that more than 2.5 million collisions back every year, making it the most common type of car accidents, it is also known that the accident rear end as incidents of injury, because the nature of the collision leads often in whiplash injury the driver in the car in front and about 20% of people who participated in a rear collision injury symptoms of this kind. ", (NHTSA, auto-accident-resource.com). Among the car accidents, the teenage group is the only age group who is number of deaths is increasing instead of decreasing. Also, all the people are exposed to risk and actually every one of them has got car