what factors do you think will influence wheather or not an occupant survives a collision?

Answer 1

The kinetic energy. Speed contributes to kinetic energy twice as much as mass does, so although the mass of the car is a factor, speed is really the key issue. The faster you're going, the harder the crash.

Also unrestrained passengers (not wearing a seatbelt) are much more likely to suffer serious injuries and death. Air bags also prevent injuries.

Paramedics, cops, and firefighters have all told me that it is rare to see someone survive a rollover accident while not wearing a seatbelt. However, they say that those in rollovers that were wearing seatbelts often walk away with just minor bruises.

The angle of the impact also plays a factor. Head-on and lateral collisions are much more likely to cause serious damage than rear-ends.

Take-home lessons: wear your seatbelt and watch your speed.

Answer 2

Well I have heard it said, re a young female, that if she had not been as well-built as she had been, she would have suffered much more seriously, being knocked by a car.
From my kinesiological field experience, I tend to agree with him.

Concerning the vehicular aspect, I could only conceptualize that a vehicle soft enough to, or capable of, breaking up fairly easily will satisfactorily cushion the blow from the pint of any human being directly involved with it.
Hence today's more plastic cars are less likely to cause the amount of shock, jolt, trauma and direct physical damage that the older metal vehicles used to cause.

There are also of course, the very obvious factors, as mentioned above - size, speed, weight, angle of pitch, whether a car turns over, whether they are hit from the side at the driver side door, whether the projectile making contact is sharp, pointed, prominent or streamlined, etc.

Answer 3

Don't know WTF this has to do with philosophy, but as a firefighter, we saw lots of training films and statistics and info on it and the overwhelming thing was seatbelts. You are like, 25 times more likely to die (don't quote me, memory feeble, but it's probably right) if you are ejected from a wreck and of course seatbelts greatly lessen that likelihood. Also, you can't negate the effects of raw speed. A collision at 100 mph is a collision at 100 mph and you can have on all the crash helmets and seatbelts and airbags in the world, but you will be having dinner with God that evening.

Answer 4

A car occupant?

Seat belt, air bags, angle of impact, speed prior to collision, type of vehicle, safety features of vehicle, luck, fate, proximity of emergency vehicle, trained ambulance personell, availability of bed in Emergency room, good doctors and nurses, your blood type is available in the blood bank of the hospital, your age, your will to live....

Answer 5

Speed
Angle of Impact
Size of Vehicle(s)
Passenger Restraints Used

Answer 6

speed of both vehicles
type of vehicles in collision ( semi vs. motorcycle)
restraints and airbags
location of collision
position of occupant
material of vehicles ( fiberglass vs. older model steel body)
dumb luck!
the list goes on and on

Answer 7

speed and weight