Almost a third of all auto accidents are rear-end collisions, and this accident results in whiplashes more so than any other. When it comes to an acceleration injury, a force that is exerted on the neck during a rear-end collision can be very high. These injuries can lead to more serious, permanent damage. You should not take your injury lightly, let us fight for you to get you the compensation that you deserve.
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Nearly one-third of all motor vehicle accidents are rear-end collisions, and it is this type of accident that is responsible for most whiplash injuries. Biomechanics-the study of how mechanical forces affect living organisms-is useful in explaining how even a "minor" rear-end collision can result in a serious injury.
To illustrate the biomechanics of a common rear-end collision, let's use a simple two-car model. In this example, the front car is stopped at a traffic signal. Let's have the rear car move forward at about 10 m.p.h. The person in the front car is relaxed and unaware of the rear car.  When the cars hit, the energy in the moving rear car is transferred to the front car, and the front car is moved forward.  Thus, the front car is moved forward by the external force of the rear car. The back of the car seat pushes the front occupant forward as well, but since the head is not contacting any portion of the seat, it remains stationary, resulting in backward motion of the head relative to the body.
The forces exerted on the neck and head during a rear-end collision can be very high:  One G is the force of acceleration due to the earth's gravity, or 32.2 ft/sec2. A fighter pilot begins to gray out at 6G. One cannot raise the body or extremities against 8G. If a 200-pound man is subjected to 8G, this is a force of 8 x 200 or 1,600 pounds. If a car is hit in the rear and accelerated to a speed of 10.8 miles per hour within the span of 100 milliseconds, the car and the driver are accelerated to 5G. Researchers have determined the occupant in this situation would stand a 50-50 chance of sustaining a concussion.  The high forces experienced during a collision have been borne out by experimental studies with test subjects. The Society of Automotive Engineers reported occupant G forces as high as 15G in collisions of just 5 m.p.h. In this situation, the average human head (typically weighing around 10 pounds) turns into a 150 pound load on the cervical spine (15G x 10 pounds = 150 pound).
In acceleration injuries, the force applied to the neck is roughly equivalent to the weight of the head multiplied by the speed that the head is moving. It is easy to see how mechanical damage can occur to the body from a relatively minor collision. Researchers have looked specifically at where the forces in flexion injuries were focused, and they found that discs in the lumbar region experience the highest pressure changes, especially those at L3-L4.  They have also found that the muscle strain in the cervical region is much greater than that in the abdomen.  The muscle connecting the base of the skull to the vertebrae in the neck and upper thorax is stretched more than 30% during flexion whiplash.