Motor Vehicle Accidents

1. Motor Vehicle Accidents

2. MVA • Motor Vehicle Accidents are by & large the most common causes of personal injury, and the leading non-natural killer in the world today. • Estimation: • 115 deaths every day • 10 accidents every second • 100,000 serious collisions occur on US highways every year • 40,000+ die from auto accidents every year. Many more are seriously injured or permanently disabled

3. Auto injuries account for nearly 25% of the 5 million people who die from injuries each year. • Three times more men than women die as a result of road traffic collisions. • 59% of all driving fatalities, the person was not wearing a seatbelt. • Most accidents occur within 25 miles of home.

4. MVA’s kill & injure more than all other accidents combined. • Weapons • Water/Air Transport • Poisoning • Drowning • Accidental Falls • Fire

5. Vehicle Impact • 5 types of vehicle impact: • Frontal (32%) • Lateral (15%) • Rotational (38%) • Rear-end (9%) • Rollover (6%)

6. Events of Impact • Each type of vehicle impact progresses through a series of 5 events: • Vehicle collision – auto hits object • Body collision – occupant’s body hits vehicle’s interior • Organ collision – body hits vehicle’s interior, slows down & stops. Tissues behind contacting surface collide, on into another, as body comes to a halt • Secondary collision – occupant is impacted by objects traveling within the auto • Addition impact – vehicle receives second impact

7. Improper Driving- Car Accidents - • 61.6% of fatalities • Speeding • Right of way • Driving left of center • Improper turn • Improper passing • Following too closely

8. Most drivers engage in one or more activities while driving: • Eating • Talk on cell phone • Reading • Grooming • Movies • Radio

9. - Motorcycle Accidents - • More motorcyclist fatalities occur on rural roads • Half of the fatalities are related to negotiating a curve prior to the crash • Almost two thirds of the fatalities are associated with speeding • Almost 60% of motorcyclist fatalities occur at night • Braking and steering maneuvers contribute for almost 25% of fatalities

10. Motorcycle Accidents • 3 types of motorcycle crashes • Initial bike/object collision • Rider/object collision • Rider/ground collision

11. - Semi-Truck Accidents - • Every 16 minutes, a person is killed or sustains injuries in accidents involving 18-wheelers, tractor-trailers, or semi-trucks • About 700 heavy truck drivers & passengers in truck cabs die each year. Almost 3,700 people in cars & other passenger vehicles die annually in collisions with heavy trucks

12. Never Drink & Drive • A person is killed in an alcohol-related tragedy every 20 minutes • 17,000 drunk driving related deaths occur every year in the US • Hundreds of thousands of lives are affected by the deaths of drunk driving victims.

13. -Drunk Driving Victims- • Christopher Oseguera, 18 • Killed by a drunk driver • January 15, 2000 • Burned alive inside his jeep that caught on fire immediately after the collision

14. -Drunk Driving Victims- • Sean Adkins, 17 • Killed by drunk driver • March 31, 1995 • Impaired driver hit Sean’s car at 63 mph. Sean flew 106’ to his death.

15. Denise Wagoner • 15 extensive surgeries • Seven on face alone • Disfigured, blind • Permanent brain damage • Denise was the impaired driver

16. Denise Wagoner

17. Denise Wagoner

18. Jacqui Saburido • 9/19/99 • 20 yrs old • 2 passengers killed instantly • Hands, Hair, ears, nose, left eyelid, most of her vision • 40 operations • Reggie Stephey convicted of 2 counts of manslaughter, 7 years in prison, $20,000

19. Jacqui Saburido

20. Jacqui Saburido