Vehicles manufactured today contain more safety features and injury prevention measures than any ever produced. Front airbags, side airbags, and crumpling frames work to reduce the amount of impact a collision has on a driver or passenger's body. Although these safety features help to reduce the amount of injuries and fatalities experienced in car accidents every year, they cannot prevent all casualties. While many accidents result in little to no injury whatsoever, there are some types of collisions that frequently result in injuries that not even the best protection can prevent.
During a motor vehicle collision, the steady movement of the vehicle is abruptly stopped, but the body of a driver continues to move forward. Depending on where the car is impacted, a human body will be affected in various ways, each with harmful consequences. If a body were left to continue without prevention of any safety measure during a frontal impact crash, it would slam into the wheel and dashboard of the car and quite possibly continue through the front windshield. As such, seatbelts stop the body from moving forward and front airbags cushion a person's head and torso, instead of allowing them to impact the hard interior. Head injuries are the leading cause of death in a motor vehicle accident, according to data collected by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's (NHTSA) Biomechanics Research.
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