I was in a car accident from a driver doing a 180 across the freeway and entering my lane then shortly thereafter I was rear-ended. It was totally unavoidable.
Im trying to remember which car caused me to move forward etc.. from all the force built up. I think i went forward and my knees hit the dash after hitting the first car and then got whiplash and other injuries from getting rear-ended.
Can someone please help explain or give a resource on where to look up basic laws of motion on this? thanks
2007-06-19 19:24:18 · 2 answers · asked by Cynthia 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Physics
try one of the links on this page....
http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=accident+reconstruction&fr=yfp-t-501&toggle=1&cop=mss&ei=UTF-8
2007-06-21 20:49:59 · answer #1 · answered by Kare C 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's all Isaac Newton's fault; it concerns mass, accelerations\, momentum and force. When your car hit the first car it was strongly decelerated by the transfer of momentum to the first car. Since you weren't totally and rigidly restrained in the car some of your body wasn't decelerated as much, so some of your body (the legs/knees) moved forward relative to your car and hit part of it. Then the second car hit your car, jolting it forward, again by momentum transfer. Again, your whole body didn't move forward uniformly with the car. In this case part of your body (the head/neck) lagged the acceleration of the rest of your body causing the whiplash.
2007-06-20 03:10:42 · answer #2 · answered by kirchwey 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋