if I wasn't wearing a seat belt and my car didn't have an air bag, what kind of damage could happen in a crash
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The injuries are related to the type and angles of impact(head on, t-bone, rollovers, rearender), speeds involved, rate of deceleration, proximity and numbers of objects (fixed and loose) in the vehicles, style/design of vehicles.\n\nSeatbelts save lives by\n1) keeping you in the car protected by steel rather than being ejected and protected by skin\n2) keeping you firmly back in the seat in front of the steering wheel so you might still maintain some control over the vehicle during the intial impact or follow up impacts\n3) distributing the sudden deceleration/change in direction of your body over a greater portion of your torso and over a greater period of time (all be it just 100th of a second).\n4) keeping you seated in the designed 'crash protection zone' of the vehicle.\n\nAirbags save live by protecting the stupid who don't think to put on their seatbelts for that 'short drive that nothing is going to happen on anyways'. They are meant to be a supplemental or secondary restraint system to the seatbelt and are meant to further distribute the force of the sudden deceleration or change in direction of your body in an impact. They deploy at roughly 300km/sec and remain fully inflated for only seconds during the impact. They use the same principle as the giant airbags you see stunt persons landing in after jumping off of 10 story buildings, transfering and dispersing the energy of impact into the release of air through controlled vents/openings in the bags.\n\nThe reason for smaller individuals (not just children but even smaller adults) not being seated in front of airbags is due to the force and speed at which they deploy not being properly countered by the weight and proper positioning of the individual in front of it. Smaller people tend to be seated closer to the bags not allowing for adaquate room for deployment before coming in contact with the mass (person) they are meant to decelarate. Instead of decelarating the object/person to a softer stop it actually accelerates the object/person backwards causing more damage/injuries. It is akin to being hit by a giant beach ball travelling at 300 km/sec. OUCH!!!\n\nIf you want to know what types of injuries to expect from an crash/impact without any seatbelts or airbags, here is a cool test you can do yourself. First find a building (school or your house) with a flat wall (no doors or windows at ground level), stand about 30-40 feet from the wall, now run as fast as you can toward the wall and keep running hard until you hit the wall, you have just experienced what an impact at approx. 12-15 miles per hour feels like. It doesn't make much difference if you suddenly throw your arms out at the last minute to slow yourself as you hit the wall. (PS. If you are crazy/stupid enough to attempt this please have a friend with a cell phone with you or predial 911 and give them your location either way you're going to the hospital for a while.) Now try to imagine what it will be like to impact that same wall at normal driving speeds of 40-70 miles per hour. As a side note in a head on crash with another vehicle, you are impacting at the combined speeds of both vehicles (ie. 80-140 MPH) not to mention any speeding that is going on.
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It means you really don't want to experience the impact with the ground that would result from plummeting off a mountain in a car.\nSmart.
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i was in an accident...tyre blew at high speed, i was a passenger in the back. Car flipped over 4 times and went head on into the rock wall. The two people in the front, my sister and her fiancee..were killed. My sister was in front of me, the seat collapsed and her head was on my lap. She bled to death...i held onto her torn artery and tried to stop the bleeding but it pumped out with each heart beat..for nearly 4 hours i was in the car with them..i have nigtmares still
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It IS the law in England, fatal accidents have been cut by people wearing seatbelts, if you don't wear a seatbelt you could go straight through the windscreen and die, I would rather wear a seatbelt and not be dead!
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Let's see, if you are dead then freedom wouldn't do you any good. But then again I live in the Live Free or Die" state New Hampshire. \nWe are so free that we don't have a seatbelt law.\nThey may say that you are losing freedom but you have already lost it. \nSo I would say safety would be my answer.
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Leaving the scene of an accident refers t oa multi car collision. The fact that your car was the only one damaged eliminates this possibillity for you. Walking for help is certainly the right move. Unless of course you have a cell phone and could call for assistance
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It is an offence under the Road Traffic Act. Driving without insurance.
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It means you have a problem with your airbag. you need to hook up a diagnostic scanner to pull codes out of the system to further diagnose it. If you don't have one, bring it to a repair shop.
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Because the faster a vehicle goes, the greater the momentum.\n\nMomentum = mass * velocity, so it increases with velocity.\n\nWhen you get in an accident, and if your car is brought to a sudden stop, you still have this momentum, this velocity. If you are not strapped down, then your movement, at the velocity continues, regardless of the new post-accident velocity of the car. If it is stopped then you will impact the instrument panel and windshield with the same velocity and momentum you had.\n\nIf you have an accident without a seatbelt, without airbags, you will get seriously messed up. And the faster you are going, the worse off you'll be.
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You need to revise your question, it makes no sense.  You left out what was causing the internal bleeding.  Was trauma involved or a disease process?  Without further details, your question is too vague.\n\nInternal bleeding no matter what isn't a good thing, without surgery, death could occur.
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I think stunt bags are almost atmospheric pressure. The safety is produced by having small air vents that allow the air inside to escape - just like a pile of cardboard boxes, the inside is basically atmospheric. The 'pillow' effect starts when the falling body first hits the bag. But from then on, the air is forced out of the air bag to absorb the weight of the falling body. If it were a sealed bag, the falling body would bounce right off of the bag.
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If you didn't report the accident to the police when it happened then you'll have to sue the vehicles owner in court. Most police departments will not do a report after the fact or after you've agreed to settle it on your own. Save all the documentation you have. You can fight it on your own, though a lawyer or contact your own insurance company. Your insurance company will use their own resources to get the other party to pay so they don't have to. The downside to that is they will consider it to be a claim and probably adjust your rates. For future reference, if you are positive you were not at fault it is always better to get a police report done. You may be able to settle things between yourselves in which case the police report won't go anywhere but at least you'll have it if things go bad, as it appears they have for you. And by the way,  the owner of the car is responsible for the damage not the driver.  Good luck.
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Don't try it, you're likely to get hurt worse. Call a cab or a car or shuttle service. They'll assist you with your bag to the car and then from the car to the curb at the airport. From there, a sky cap can collect your bag to check it. Carrying on doesn't make a lot of sense.\n\nYou can also call the airport for assistance including wheelchair assistance and they can assist you with your bags if you absolutely have to carry on. Much easier than trying to schelep a bag while on crutches...
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Any car that can leave smoke has alot of power to begin with, a really heavy duty transmission, two wheel dis brakes, and rear wheel drive. If you do the front wheel drive thing with the emergency brake, you will absolutely screw your emergency brake to hell. What you do is hold the brake as tight to the floor as you can, and press the accelerator all the way to the floor. If your engine doesn't blow up, and your clutch doesn't melt away, your wheels will spin freely, while the friction froom the asphault (always us asphault) heats them up and burns them away. It's a really good way to waste your old tires. But it's also a way to completely ruin your engine and transmission beyond repair. Not a good idea if you like your money and your car, Joe.
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Cars are NOT built air tight\nyou'll be fine\nremember to make sure the car doors are locked, park in a well lit area ( like a rest stop)\nstay safe!
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Your body would be pulled in every direction, though not really "exploding", that's a pretty good approximation of what would happen. If that didn't happen & you had oxygen, you would freeze to death. Or you would die from radiation(which is what would happen with the spacesuit, making the moon landing a farce).\n\nSpace kills, man.
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Remember, momentum is affected by mass.  The fly's mass makes it easier to dissipate the inertia.  So it seems that the fly could crash into the front, but not likely. Of course, most people are worrying about other things at the time, so no specific measurements have been taken!  The air inside has mass also, so in effect the car and the air mass have become one unit, in which the fly is also a small part.  When it stops, it helps everything else stop.