CHAPTER FIVE T BONE COLLISION PASSENGER SIDE WITH WHEEL WELL AND A PILLAR
In this chapter we will describe in detail the impact of a T-bone collision on the passenger side at the front wheel well and A pillar with 1 meganewton force on the occupants of a unibody 4 door economy car with specificity regarding all 4 passengers, one in the driver’s seat front, passenger seat front, rear drivers side rear passenger side. A T-bone collision at the passenger side front wheel well and A-pillar with a force of 1 meganewton (MN) on a unibody 4-door economy car is a serious accident. This kind of collision has the potenƟal to be parƟcularly catastrophic due to the proximity of the impact to the front passenger seat and the significant structural importance of the A-pillar. Here's the detailed impact on each of the car's occupants: Driver's Seat (Front): Whiplash: The driver, although on the opposite side of the impact, could sƟll experience whiplash due to the sudden lateral force, as the neck is thrust sideways. It's really important here to understand that there is a thing that happens to our ligaments in these types of hyperflexion and hyperextension injuries, and it's called ligament laxity. And what that means is that the ligament is stretched out of its normal shape, and it never ever ever goes back to its regular shape. When this happens to us in a whiplash type injury, the ligament can no longer hold our head up like it should. As a result of that our muscles take over and try to hold the head up where the ligaments would do it before because that is taxing to our muscles. That's why we get aching necks and pain. That is constant because our muscles are working overtime, trying to take over the job of the now stretched ligaments.
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