GUIDE ON HOW TO DETERMINE THE TYPE OF CAR ACCIDENT YOUR INTO
There are different types of car accidents that a driver may
encounter and this article aims to help those drivers involved
into knowing the classification of the car accident they are
currently involved in. Car accidents fall into several
categories and these are as follows: rear-end collisions, side
collisions, rollovers, head-on collisions, single-car accidents
and pile-ups.
REAR-END COLLISIONS The rear-end collision is a traffic accident
wherein a vehicle crash with the vehicle in front of it. In this
type of collision both the vehicles involved experienced
mechanical damage and aside from that, the injuries contacted by
both occupants are not that severe compared to the damaged taken
by their vehicles. And also, a typical medical consequence of
rear-end collisions is a whiplash and this may also happen even
in cases where collisions happened at moderate speed.
Furthermore, for insurance as well as policing the vehicle that
bumps or crash the rear-end of another car is the one considered
at fault.
SIDE COLLISIONS A side collision is wherein two vehicles
crashing side-to-side. The severity of the damaged incurred by
the vehicles are based on the vehicles structures wherein the
less structurally set-up vehicle will tend to suffer much of the
collision damaged. Moreover, the occupants of the vehicle with
the lower mass will suffer the greater injuries.
ROLLOVERS A rollover is a type of vehicle accident wherein a
vehicle turns over on its side. The most common cause of this
type of vehicle accident is the turning too sharply while moving
too fast. In addition, all vehicles have the tendency to
rollover in one way or another. Mostly, vehicles that are high
have a much higher centre of mass and are likely to rollover and
an example of such type of vehicles are the SUVs and trucks.
HEAD-ON COLLISIONS A head-on collision is where vehicles hit
each other as opposed to a side-collision or rear-end collision.
In this type of collision both the vehicles as well as the
occupants of the vehicles suffer the worst damages and injuries
and even death. Aside from that, vehicles damaged in this kind
of accident are considered irreparable due to the severity of
the damage it has acquired from the collision.
Nevertheless, collisions do not always occurs between cars but
also to types of vehicles like motorcycles hitting pedestrians
and other stationary structures such as road signs and trees.
Lastly, it is always better to be a defensive driver than to be
sorry later on and one more thing DON