Can someone be injured in a low-speed accident?
Most motorists have experienced minor collisions and impacts in the course of their driving careers. These usually do not result in injury. Many motorists are involved in higher speed crashes in which significant damage to their vehicle results, and still are spared an injury. On the other hand, injuries are also known to occur in lower speed crashes in which the vehicle’s damage is minimal. On the face of it, this would seem to defy logic. Perhaps even more perplexing is the all too common example of a horrific crash in which one of the vehicle’s occupants is killed, while another walks away without so much as a scratch. These examples make it obvious that injury risk is dependent on many factors, and these factors are not necessarily shared by all vehicle occupants equally. Crash factors include the vehicle’s velocity, its change in velocity (delta V) as a result of the collision, and the acceleration forces resulting from the collision. From this, it is possible to roughly gauge the
