Damn Statist drivers!

ooof... scary

Bet he saw the cop car and slammed on the brakes before losing control.

Apply directly to the forehead

I'd like to see the rest of the footage.

>> ^MarineGunrock:

I'd like to see the rest of the footage.


Where the cop drags the injured driver out of his car and tazes him ten times?

Would it have reduced the cop's personal injury if he steered hard to the right during that split second?

damn, hope no one was riding shotgun in the soccer van =(

The cop is probably more or less okay. He'll be sore with some soft tissue damage. He'll probably need to see a chiropractor, and he might have an injury to his knees.That's assuming he had an airbag in the car--I think I heard the pop as it deployed. It'll be very painful, but probably not anything you can't recover from.

I'm more worried about the driver of the van. Vehicles these days do really well with front-end collisions, with various safety features in the car design, including impact cages and airbags that pop at greater or less speed based on the speed of the collision. Side-impact collisions are a lot more dangerous. Even if there are airbags, the geometry of the car just won't stand up as well. People hit like that tend to be a lot more likely to sustain serious injury. Probably the biggest risk, assuming the driver was wearing their seat belt, would be the driver's head striking the door window. She would have at least a concussion, possibly serious injuries to her left leg, and soft tissue damage up and down the right side of her body.

I'm a customer service associate for a major insurance company. My job is basically to take new claims from people who have been in accidents. The good news is that since I've started the job, I've learned just how safe our cars are these days. It's relatively rare even with highway accidents that people are seriously injured as long as we're talking about something like straight on damage or a collision at an angle. (A head-on collision is obviously going to be a lot more dangerous. Fortunately, the van did come in at an angle, so the cop car didn't take nearly as much force as it could have.)

Side-impact collisions are what send people to the hospital these days. Drive careful, folks!

Why see a chiropractor? Why not see some one who can actually help you recover from your injuries, like a doctor and a physiotherapist?

Jeez, I think I saw MY life flash before my eyes.