In human civilization, cars have proven themselves as important inventions. Their advent to the society changed the way people live as well as do commerce and trade since they make transportation faster. However, much as these facilities have made life easier for many, it had also claimed lives as well as caused injuries when accidents happened in the road.

Most often these car accident injuries involve collision with a pedestrian, with another vehicle, or with obstructions that may be physical or architectural in nature.

All over the world, there is no clear statistics that can figure the occurrence of car accident injuries because reports often depend on compensation as well as medical procedures involved.  However, these injuries can affect any parts of the body and the internal organs. A fatal type is TBI or Traumatic Brain Injury which usually occurs as a side-impact accident than rear-end accident. Brain trauma maybe due to skull fractures and nerve damage.

The back and neck are prone to car accident injuries. Whiplash is an injury to the neck that cause damage to the soft tissues, ligaments and nerves and it often leads to pain as well as limitation of the movements of the neck thus causing difficulty in rotating as well as peripheral vision. This type of injury can be permanent or temporary. Back injuries are often impact to the thoracic, midback, lower back, disk and lumbar.  Another serious back injury is disc injury. This is an injury to the intervertebral disc which makes up the spine. As a result of accident, discs in the neck and spine may slip, bulge or rupture. It often involves series of expensive medical procedures, to name, MRI or CT Scan. Spinal cord compression often leads to permanent disability.

The lower and upper limbs are also oftentimes injured. In the lower limbs the affected parts are usually the fingers, hands, wrists, forearms, arms and shoulders. While in the lower limbs, it is the hips, legs, knees, heels, ankles, and feet which are often injured. However, fractures and sprains can be treated with splints and casts.

Among the internal organs often affected by car accident injuries are kidneys, spleen, liver, lungs and heart. Very common are fractured ribs and oftentimes they are associated with punctured lungs.

Treatments to these injuries vary from a simple outpatient check-up to a hospital confinement and for serious cases, to Intensive Care Unit.

According to K. Rumar in his 1985 study of British and American Traffic Accidents, 57% of the crash was attributed to driver factor, 27% was due to a combined roadway and driver factor, 6% was due to combined vehicle and driver factor, 3% was solely from roadway factors, 3% was from combined roadway, driver, and vehicle factors, 2% solely from vehicle factors and 1% was due to combined roadway and vehicle factors.

Accidents in the road can happen in a flash, thus, utmost care and attention must be given if one wishes to avoid the possibilities of car accident injuries.