When a Head-On Car Crash Turns Deadly
One of the scariest types of car crashes a person can be involved in is a head-on accident. This type of car accident occurs when the front-end of two vehicles collide, most commonly on a road with no median to stop motor vehicles from crossing lanes. According to data gathered by the Fatal Analysis Reporting System in 1999, 75 percent of head-on accidents occurred on un-divided two-lane roads. The reason that head-on collisions are so scary is that they are often fatal: statistics show that in 2005, head-on crashes in the U.S. were only two percent of all car accidents but accounted for 10.1 percent of all fatal crashes. While a head-on car crash often involves two vehicles, in some cases one vehicle smacks into a stationary object such as a wall, light pole, tree or fence.
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