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There are more vehicles on our roads than ever and as a result there are more and more accidents occurring every day.

Every year thousands of people are involved in road traffic accidents where they are not at fault.

Despite what most people think and the type of language often used in the press and on television, whiplash is not an injury.

It is often said that if your car has a headrest then you cannot suffer a whiplash injury.

A commonly held myth is that you cannot suffer an injury to your neck if you are involved in a collision at low speed.

The law requires that we wear a seatbelt at all times when we are in a car, whether as a passenger or a driver.

The law requires that we wear a seatbelt at all times when we are in a car, whether as a passenger or a driver.

The law requires us to look after ourselves and take care of what we are doing in situations. It is worthwhile often having a think about how we can prevent accidents from happening.

The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents is a website which provides ideas for how to avoid accidents from occurring.

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Whiplash is not an injury. It is simply a description of the way the head and neck commonly react to being involved in a road traffic accident.

The excessive force associated with a road traffic accident can commonly cause soft tissue damage to the muscles and ligaments in the neck and around the spine.

Particularly where there are significant forces involved in a collision injuries can occur to the lower back.

Our spine, from the top of the neck to the lower back, is made up of small segments of bones called vertebrae.

Where the forces involved in an accident are particularly serious and where the neck has suffered a particularly bad injury either in the form of a severe soft tissue damage or disc damage then it is not uncommon for the pain to radiate from the neck into the shoulder and down into the arm.

Over the past few years car manufacturers have stopped fitting lap belts for the middle rear passenger. All new cars now are fitted with three point seatbelts for all passengers. That is because the injuries which can be caused by a lap belt are extremely serious and potentially life threatening.

Depending upon where you are seated and how the collision takes place it is not at all uncommon to suffer fractures as a result of a road traffic accident.

This very much depends on the injury you sustained but as a general guide you can claim for:

Make sure that you get the details of the other individual involved. This means take a note of their:

Ms Cadbury was a back seat passenger in her son's motor vehicle when it was involved in a road traffic accident. The accident occurred on an icy morning and Ms Cadbury's son admitted that he was travelling too fast for the conditions.

TEACHER Carol Summers was one year into her first job when she was involved in a horrific three-car road accident in which one driver died. The 25-year-old was seriously injured in the smash, which was not her fault, and had to sign off work for almost nine months.