Road Accident
Car accident injuries
The most common type of personal injury suffered in car accidents is whiplash and it is estimated that as many as 250,000 Britons are affected by it every year. Whiplash is basically the overstretching of the tissue in the neck and spine and can result in weeks, months or, in severe cases, years of pain and discomfort.
Speed is not necessarily a contributing factor to a whiplash injury as it can be caused by a car accident at speeds of as little as 5mph. It is, instead, the sudden impact of the collision and the instinctive stamp on the brakes that put the body under unnatural force and so cause the damage to the neck.
Although whiplash remains the most common injury because it can occur at even the lowest of speeds, various other injuries occur regularly because of car accidents. Cuts caused by flying glass are fairly common, as are broken limbs and head injuries. In fact, such are the nature of road accidents that almost every injury imaginable can and often does happen.
It is not only physical harm that results from car accidents, but psychological damage too. The trauma of an accident, especially if fatalities are involved, can be such that it could leave a mark on those involved for a considerable amount of time if professional help is not sought.
In order to estimate the total cost of road accidents nationally, all accidents and related casualties (i.e., police reported and unreported injury, and damage-only accidents) need to be considered. Reported RTAs can be only an underestimate of the actual total that occurs each year. While underreporting exists in all countries, the severity indices found in developing countries indicate a much more serious problem exists in the developing world. Road accident costing offers an opportunity to overcome underreporting as hospital surveys often identify casualty totals much higher than police
RTA figures (for example, in the PRC, Ministry of Health statistics show 111,000 road
The most common type of personal injury suffered in car accidents is whiplash and it is estimated that as many as 250,000 Britons are affected by it every year. Whiplash is basically the overstretching of the tissue in the neck and spine and can result in weeks, months or, in severe cases, years of pain and discomfort.
Speed is not necessarily a contributing factor to a whiplash injury as it can be caused by a car accident at speeds of as little as 5mph. It is, instead, the sudden impact of the collision and the instinctive stamp on the brakes that put the body under unnatural force and so cause the damage to the neck.
Although whiplash remains the most common injury because it can occur at even the lowest of speeds, various other injuries occur regularly because of car accidents. Cuts caused by flying glass are fairly common, as are broken limbs and head injuries. In fact, such are the nature of road accidents that almost every injury imaginable can and often does happen.
It is not only physical harm that results from car accidents, but psychological damage too. The trauma of an accident, especially if fatalities are involved, can be such that it could leave a mark on those involved for a considerable amount of time if professional help is not sought.
In order to estimate the total cost of road accidents nationally, all accidents and related casualties (i.e., police reported and unreported injury, and damage-only accidents) need to be considered. Reported RTAs can be only an underestimate of the actual total that occurs each year. While underreporting exists in all countries, the severity indices found in developing countries indicate a much more serious problem exists in the developing world. Road accident costing offers an opportunity to overcome underreporting as hospital surveys often identify casualty totals much higher than police
RTA figures (for example, in the PRC, Ministry of Health statistics show 111,000 road