My car is in the shop now and the damage came to about
$2500. That is not a lot of damage and I'm thinking the car
should have done a better job of protecting me.

For those who don't know I was rear-ended at a stop
light Tuesday (4/2) and later in the day I went to the
hospital with a concussion.

Three days later, I'm still a bit woozy. My Z24 was rear
ended by a truck to the tune of $7K and all I had was a
stiff neck.

My head hit the head rest and stopped. The seat
back couldn't move because it was up against the roll
bar. Once my head stopped my brain kept going and hit
the inside of my skull. Had the seat had more give it
would have stopped my head more slowly, lessening
the impact to my brain.

 

[QUOTE]Originally posted by ElTianti
[B]Once my head stopped my brain kept going and hit
the inside of my skull.

 

feel better man
accident is always not pleasant

and you know, there are so more deciding factor ... it's hard to compare that way ...

 

I think it's a little unfair to blame the car based on a comparison with a completely different accident. Is it a design flaw that the car's not as big as your previous vehicle, so that you have to put the seat further back? Or that it's a convertible, so that the seat backs up against a bulkhead instead of having only air behind it? I think those are things we need to consider when we first choose to buy a car (i.e. is this car appropriate for me?).

Anyway, however, I certainly sympathize with your suffering. I was in a big wreck 9 years ago and one of my buddies had a concussion that gave him some short-term memory problems for several weeks. You should DEFINITELY be under medical supervision for the next several months, and any and all symptoms should be documented and tracked. It's an unfortunate reality that sometimes the effects of head trauma are not discovered for quite a while (6-12 months). It's because of this that in Virginia, where my accident occurred, *all* head injuries are reported by the treating hospital to the Virginia Head Injury Foundation, which supports victims who suffer long-term problems. (My buddy was lucky and made a full, permanent recovery.)

Best of luck in your (and your car's) recovery.

John

 

It could've been worse ... if there wasn't a head-rest at all, you might have received a nasty case of whip-lash.

 

The weight of the vehicles makes a BIG difference. What sort of car hit you? My physics prof back in college explained this one time something like this.

When a much larger object hits a much smaller object, the smaller object moves away at about twice the speed of the big one. (We did experiments which showed this effect.) So, a truck hits a small car. The car accelerates to twice the speed of the truck. The car, via the seat, hits the much smaller driver. The driver accelerates to twice the speed of the car. Etc. It gets ugly fast.

 

You may be second quessing yourself, but as far as small, 2-seater, sportscars go this is the safest thing I've seen, read about, or heard about.

Driving a small car in a big car/ big truck world is, as we all know, a risk! We S2000 owners all take it. Seating, seatbelts, etc. are something that must be taken seriously.

Good luck on your recovery. Head injuries can be serious and we are all pulling for a 100% recovery for you.

 

[QUOTE]Originally posted by ElTianti
[B] My head hit the head rest and stopped. The seat
back couldn't move because it was up against the roll
bar.

 

[QUOTE]Originally posted by ElTianti
[B]My Z24 was rear ended by a truck to the tune of $7K and all I had was a