Car Accidents At Low Speeds

Whenever you find yourself in stop-and-go traffic, which is pretty common throughout New York City during rush hour. Every few minutes, you may get to move a few feet. Cars are bumper to bumper, and everyone is just hoping that the bottleneck will uncork and they will begin to move at a reasonable speed soon enough.

A driver behind you might jump the gun a little and bump you in their eagerness to get moving. They weren’t moving very fast, and you don’t see any damage to your car or feel like you were injured. You go ahead and trade insurance information, but you don’t really expect to have to make a claim. You may not even make report the accident because you think it’s not worth the time.

A few hours or days later, the neck pain sets in, your car starts making a noise that it never made before.

Even low speed auto collisions can cause an injury and property damage, especially if the other vehicle was a bigger and heavier than yours. Often the harm isn’t readily apparent at the time of the collision, but emerges later.