Fatal 2 car drunk driving accident.?

Question

I have to do a report for my health class about being in a Fatal 2 car drunk driving accident. the subject is: Only one person lived who is in critical condition in the ICU, when he/ she wakes up they have a busied eye, severe concussion. we need to find out as many things as possible such as: why he/she would be in critcial condition, what happened that knocked the person out for over 12 hours and if it was a coma, and how they might've gotten a severe concussion and what is it?

Answer 1

What exactly happens inside your body when your car does this? Or this? Of course, it depends on the severity of the crash, but even at low speeds, here's what your brain can go through.

Of course, the head suddenly stops, but inside the skull, the brain for a split second can keep on moving. It shifts inside the skull.

Even at 20 or 30 miles an hour, tissue can be bruised, blood vessels in the brain can tear

And when those veins tear, this can result in slow bleeding, and that, in turn, can put pressure on the brain. It can start to squeeze the brain, and this can be very serious, and if it's not treated, it can be fatal.

This kind of injury is called a subdural hematoma.

As for the rest of the body, whiplash is the most common complaint following a car accident. Doctors say it's hard to know precisely what causes whiplash, because so many parts of the body are involved: the head, the neck, the chest, and the spine.

The chest comes up and the neck squishes a little bit, and then it goes back. Which one's causing the injury?

Trauma that doesn't necessarily incapacitate you at the time may have long-term effects that you don't see for 10 or 20 or 30 years.

Answer 2

You would have to fill in a few blanks about the dynamics of the collision ...Where was the victim sitting in the car?...How fast were the vehicles going at time of impact?...Was it a head-on or angle?...Was air bag deployed if sitting in the front?

When you think about it, the human body is traveling as fast as the vehicle and a 3000 lb vehicle traveling at 55 mph has 303,371 ft/lbs of kinetic energy...Add that to mass and speed of the opposing vehicle and the energy absorbed by the vehicles and occupants is astronomical...If you look at a diagram of a seat belt/supplemental restraint (air bag) system, you'll see that the human body is very vulnerable to injury and death at speeds above 40 mph...The upper torso is secured by the seat belt across the lap, chest and one shoulder...The airbags cushion the face and maybe the left side of the head...But the head, neck, arms and legs are exposed to shock and severe injury...Hitting a vehicle in front will cause the head to snap forward into the airbag and breaking the nose and causing eye injury from broken glasses or dislodged contact lenses...Being hit from the back will make the head snap backward into the headrest...The seat back may collapse backward from the force of the impact - as happened to me (into the lap of anybody sitting behind)...From this very basic discussion you can see that vehicle collisions are violent and very destructive.

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Answer 3

think of the crash as a watermelon dropped from the roof of your house