While the statistics of vehicle collision deaths are often the topic of this blog – we rarely discuss the number of injuries that require hospitalization. In a recent year approximately 4 ½ million people required hospital care due to auto and truck accidents. These injuries run the gamut of minor cuts and bruises to traumatic [...]
Road traffic injuries that are a result of car and truck collisions number in the millions across America annually. While statistics place the average number of roadway deaths at around 50,000 annually and in a recent year the number of major and minor injuries numbered nearly 3 million. This would include broken bones, internal injuries, [...]
Surviving an automobile or truck crash comes with its own set out problems. First, the extent of one’s injuries can complicate recovery – or perhaps you will never be fully whole again. Perhaps, the accident resulted in the death of a family member or a stranger. In order to recover from a car collision one [...]
The types of injuries one can sustain from an automobile or truck accident are nearly limitless. Moreover, the medical expenses associated with injury and death resulting from an automobile accident may be astronomical depending – in part – on the type and extent of trauma. Let us consider some of the more common types of [...]
It is difficult to conceive of escaping an automobile accident without injuries and the chances of this are better in a minor fender bender than a head on crash. Let us take this blog to consider the types of injuries most common in auto accidents. Again, the point is not to be gruesome – but [...]
A woman injured in a Houston car accident but whom at the scene believed she was fine, died recently in Houston area hospital due to a closed head injury. The woman developed headaches the day after the car wreck and went to the emergency room to be checked out. She died 2 weeks later of [...]
