Car Accidents Are Leading Cause of Spinal Cord Injury in the United States
At the Philadelphia car accident law firm of Reiff and Bily, we have handled thousands of car accidents cases since 1979. Not so surprisingly, most of the people that we represent in car accident cases suffer spine injuries and many times the spine injuries are so severe that they lead to paralysis or death with resulting life altering consequences.
In the year 2007, 41,000 people in the United States died in car accidents and almost 2.5 million were injured in more than 6 million car accidents. A recent article published in US News and World Report on Friday, February 6, 2009 by “Health Day” reporter Steven Weinberg indicated that car accidents are the leading cause of spinal cord injury in the United States for those aged 65 and younger. Spinal fractures are the most significant cause of disability and death according to the research findings. Dr. Marjorie Wang, an Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery at The Medical College of Wisconsin noted that the incidents of spine fractures increase year by year over the study period from 1994 to 2002. For more information on spinal injuries please visit U.S. National Library of Medicine.
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