A car accident or car crash is an incident in which an automobile collides with anything that causes damage to the automobile, including other automobiles, telephone poles, buildings or trees, or in which the driver loses control of the vehicle and damages it in some other way, such as driving into a ditch or rolling over. Sometimes a car accident may also refer to an automobile striking a human or animal. Car crashes, traffic collisions, auto accidents, road accidents, personal injury collisions, motor vehicle accidents, - kill an estimated 1.2 million people worldwide each year, and injure about forty times this number.

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Trends in collision statistics

Road toll figures show that car collision fatalities have declined since 1980, with most countries showing a reduction of roughly 50%. This drop appears to confirm the efficacy of safety measures introduced thereafter, assuming that driver behaviour has not changed significantly. In the United States, fatalities have increased slightly from 40,716 in 1994 to 42,884 in 2003. However, in terms of fatalities per 100 million miles driven, the fatality rate has dropped 16% between 1995 and 2005. Injuries dropped 37% over the same period. (National Traffic Safety Administration, 2006)

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Legal consequences

As for civil liability, automobile accident personal injury lawsuits have become the most common type of tort. Because these cases have been litigated often, the legal questions usually have been answered in prior judgments. So, the courts usually need to decide only the factual questions of who is at fault, and their percentage of fault, as well as how much must paid out in damages to the injured plaintiff by the defendant's insurer.

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Backup collisions

Backup collisions happen when a driver reverses their car into an object, person, or another car. Although most cars come equipped with rear view mirrors, which are adequate for detecting vehicles behind a car, they are inadequate on many vehicles for detecting small children or objects close to the ground, which fall in the car's blind spot. Large trucks have much larger blind spots that can hide entire vehicles and large adults. The CDC reported that from 2001-2003, an estimated 7,475 children (2,492 per year) under the age of 15 were treated for automobile back-over incidents. In its "Deaths and Injuries Resulting from Certain Non-Traffic and Non-Crash Events," report issued in May of 2004, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration found that back-up collisions most often: Occur in residential driveways and parking lots Involve sport utility vehicles (SUVs or small trucks Occur when a parent, relative or someone known to the family is driving Particularly affect children less than five years old The driver of the car backing up and hitting an object, a person, or another car is usually considered to be at fault.

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