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Where a car occupant is not wearing a seatbelt in a frontal collision, the body will continue to travel forwards until its kinetic energy is transferred in an impact with another object.

When you are travelling in a car your body and the car have a certain amount of kinetic energy created by the car’s motion. In normal driving situations that energy is gradually transferred to the brakes when the car comes to a stop, usually in the form of heat. 

Driver fatigue is one of the biggest killers on the roads. It is also one of the hardest accident causes to combat.

Today’s cars are safer than ever before. This means that your safety on the roads is increasingly becoming your sole responsibility, and that avoiding bad driving habits can further reduce your risk of having a serious accident.

Workers’ compensation is designed to compensate employees for accidental injuries that occur in the workplace.

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, there were close to three million accidents on the job reported in 2015. Out of those, 4,836 involved fatalities.

A variety of different injuries are possible to sustain when involved in a car accident; however, the nature of the injuries that do occur are usually determined by several factors, including vehicle speed, weather conditions, road conditions, location within the vehicle, vehicle size and design, and whether or not a seat belt was worn or an airbag deployed.

Car accidents tend to happen suddenly, but what happens next tends to be the bigger whirlwind – what do you do?

You usually don’t think about your shins until they hurt, right? And by then, you could be looking at some major downtime. Also, known as medial tibial stress syndrome, "Shin splints"...