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Car Accidents in Atlanta, Dekalb, Gwinnett and HWY 78, Stone Mountain are fairly common. In a car accident the entire whiplash injury occurs in about 1/10th of a second , the length of an eye blink. But in that time, the human head can experience forces greater than that of jet fighter pilots.

Automobile crashes in Atlanta can cause injury to the ligaments, joints, nerves, and blood vessels of the neck. Car accidents can cause a wide spectrum of injuries. Atlanta is known for its traffic.

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Car Crash Stats: There were nearly 6,420,000 auto accidents in the United States in 2005. The financial cost of these crashes is more than 230 Billion dollars. 2.9 million people were injured and 42,636 people killed. About 115 people die every day in vehicle crashes in the United States -- one death every 13 minutes.

In 2003 there were 6,328,000 car accidents in the US. There were 2.9 million injuries and 42,643 people were killed in auto accidents.

In 2002, there were an estimated 6,316,000 car accidents in the USA. There were about 2.9 million injuries and 42,815 people were killed in auto accidents in 2002.

There were an estimated 6,356,000 car accidents in the US in 2000. There were about 3.2 million injuries and 41,821 people were killed in auto accidents in 2000 based on data collected by the Federal Highway Administration.

In epidemiology, we usually ask three basic questions about a disease in order to get an understanding on its effect on the public health-its public health burden. Incidence is usually reported as the number of cases occurring each year per 100,000 persons in the population. Although the incidence of 1 million whiplash injuries per year is often quoted, this originated with an outdated and incomplete 1971 dataset. More recently, it has been estimated by Croft that as many as 3 million such injuries occur in the U.S. each year. This figure is expected to be the best currently available because it is based on several government databases and accounts for the expected degree of underreporting reported by NHTSA.


This condition is underreported compared to the types of crashes in which people are seriously injured or killed. For example, the National Automotive Sampling System (NASS) is based on the reporting of motor vehicle trauma from EMS, law enforcement, and trauma centers. Since many whiplash victims are not attended by EMS and because many of these injuries are not apparent immediately, they are never reported to the governmental data collection centers. As a result, the incidence figures reported around the world vary widely from a dubious low of 70/100,000 in Quebec, to 700/100,000 in Saskatchewan, and from 417/100,000 in the U.K. to 1172/100,000 in the U.S.

Muscle Injury After Whiplash. The muscles play an interesting role in the neck and especially in whiplash injury. The neck muscles are responsible for keeping the head up and maintaining posture. The muscles of the neck can be exposed to dramatic stretch forces during an auto collision, as we can see in the movie to the right. As the torso is moved forward during the crash, the head rotates backward, stretching the large muscles in the front of the neck. Immediately after a crash, many patients will complain of neck muscle pain, and this is often from this stretching motion. Unfortunately, scar tissue can develop in these muscles leading to other problems. Studies have found that this scar tissue can affect the nerves of the neck, leading to conditions like thoracic outlet syndrome. Neck muscle pain can also be due to injury to the ligaments or disc in the spine. Neck muscle injury from whiplash can also result in shoulder pain.