Auto Accident Information
What is an Auto Accident?Auto Accident-an unexpected and undesirable event, involving automobile, resulting in damage or harm. Auto accidents—also called Motor Vehicle Traffic Accidents, Car Accidents, Road Accidents, Road Traffic Accidents (RTA in many police forces' terminology) and motor vehicle accidents—cause thousands of deaths and hundreds of thousands of disabilities each year.
Immediately after being injured in an auto accident, you are thrown into an adversarial legal system that is complex and confusing. You may be lying still in hospital struggling to regain your health without knowing the fact that delays in the process can weaken your claim for insurance.
Types of Auto Accident
Auto Accidents fall into several major categories (whose names are self-explanatory):
- Rear-end collisions
- Rollovers
- Head-on collisions
- Pile-ups
- Railroad crossing accidents
The result of a side collision; most cars are not as structurally sound side-to-side as they are front-to-back and damage can be more severe to the vehicle and the occupant than at the same speed in a rear-end collision.
The result of a side collision; most cars are not as structurally sound side-to-side as they are front-to-back and damage can be more severe to the vehicle and the occupant than at the same speed in a rear-end collision.
In a collision between two cars, the occupants of a car with the lower mass will likely suffer the greater consequences.