Car Accidents can cause a wide array of serious and sometimes fatal injuries. If you or someone you love has sustained an injury in a car accident, call The Thomson Law Firm for a FREE case evaluation.
Individuals who have suffered serious injuries in car accidents often require medical diagnostic imaging, hospital stays, physical therapy, in-home care, rehabilitative care, and long term follow-up visits with specialists such as neurologists, orthopedic surgeons, and pain management. All of these services are very expensive and can mean thousands of dollars in lost wages for the victim.
Injuries commonly sustained in a car accident can include but are not limited to:
Brain Injuries: Traumatic brain injuries or TBI are often sustained in vehicle crashes when the body is propelled forward and the occupant’s head strikes the windshield, the steering wheel, the dashboard, or when riding in the backseat, the seat in front of them. When a vehicle is T-boned, passengers and drivers are often tossed sideways into the window.
TBI’s are life altering, permanent injuries. Some victims may suffer a slight concussion, experience a bit of nausea and headaches, acquire a “goose egg”, take a few days of rest and then get on with their lives. These are the lucky ones. Other victims sustain more serious injuries and with life inhibiting difficulty.
Victims of Severe TBI may loose the ability to walk, speak clearly, think clearly and concentrate, the ability to control sleep cycles and or emotions, experience long or short-term memory loss, and will most likely have severe migraine for the rest of their lives.
TBI injuries sustained in car accidents are very common in children, since many children are not restrained properly in appropriately sized car seats and seat belts.
Neck and Spine Injuries: Car accidents can cause painful injuries to the occupants of a vehicle that can include whiplash, disc herniation, compression fractures, and spondylolisthesis. All of these conditions are extremely painful and require medical treatment. Some of these injuries can take several weeks and months of physical therapy and rest to properly heal. Many of these injuries are permanent and never heal.
Chest Injuries: Broken ribs and a broken breast bone can also result from the severe impact of a car accident. Injuries like these have been reduced thanks to the use of airbags and seatbelts but unfortunately still occur in some motor vehicle and semi-truck crashes.
Abdominal Injuries: Internal injuries can easily occur when the body is propelled at a high rate of speed during an accident. Any person who has been in a car accident should be examined for “seat belt signs”. Seat belt signs include any bruising or skin abrasions across the lap or from the shoulder diagonally across the sternum.
Bruising or skin abrasions from seat belt indicate a high probability of internal damage to vital organs. Victims with “seat belt signs” should be taken to the ER for diagnostic imaging or exploratory surgery.
Knee Injuries and Leg Injuries: These accidents typically occurring in rear-end crashes. These injuries can be very serious in impact crashes where the engine of the car comes into the cabin of the vehicle. In recent past, there have also been a series of Guardrail crashes. The crashes occurred when the end-caps of the guardrails failed and the guardrail was forced into the compartments of the vehicles.
Many passengers have also suffered serious injuries to the legs, hips and back when they have been riding with their feet on the dashboard and the airbag deployed during an accident.
Car and truck accidents cause serious and sometimes fatal injuries. I hope this never happens to you or to anyone you love or depend on. If it does, call The Thomson Law Firm today for a FREE consultation (540) 777-4900.
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