Posts by Dune Finkleberry

61) Message boards : Cafe MilkyWay : Physics question... (Message 42135) Posted 14 Sep 2010 by Dune Finkleberry Post: Dune, 8/24? Do you mean in 10 days? Yup. She went to him once to tell them about her aches and pains, then she went again and he wanted the MRI. She talked to him briefly afterward and that's when he told her about the herniated disks. She was in shock after the accident too, and turned down going to the hospital for a checkout. But the cop told us that we had 24 hours (or maybe that was 48 hours dunno....) Anyway when she woke up the next morning she had bad pain between the shoulder blades. We made her a quick appointment to see our family doctor. One thing led to another, now here we are... happy campers.
62) Message boards : Cafe MilkyWay : Word Link VI (Message 42119) Posted 14 Sep 2010 by Dune Finkleberry Post: wild
63) Message boards : Cafe MilkyWay : Physics question... (Message 42118) Posted 14 Sep 2010 by Dune Finkleberry Post: Yes. We've got a neurosurgeon on it as we speak. She sees him again on (I think) 8/24. I'll be able to hear what he has to say about this situation then. She did say that he'd consider steroid injections in her neck and physical therapy first, but he seems to feel that surgery is the best option. Only time will tell. She hates the idea of surgery. In fact she detests it, but I think if the injections and therapy fail, she'll come around. But I do doubt that the insurance is laughing too hard. What with damages to 3 vehicles, and that's not even knowing the physical damage to any of three involved vehicles drivers themselves.
64) Message boards : Cafe MilkyWay : Word Link VI (Message 42108) Posted 13 Sep 2010 by Dune Finkleberry Post: dry
65) Message boards : Cafe MilkyWay : Physics question... (Message 42098) Posted 13 Sep 2010 by Dune Finkleberry Post: She is lucky not to be paralyzed. That, my friend is a scary thought. But I believe that would be an extreme possibility though. The grey car was going faster than 25mph though. Modern cars have crimpling (?) zones that absorb a lot of the energy of accidents. I believe that too, considering the amount of damage to the rear of her car. But there were no witnesses that came forth to make that point to my knowledge. I firmly believe the guy isn't going to add speeding to his charge by admitting that he was doing faster than the speed limit. They totaled my wife's car, and in that way avoided paying over $5000 to fix it. All they gave us was $3200 for it. We were pretty much screwed.
66) Message boards : Cafe MilkyWay : Word Link VI (Message 42095) Posted 13 Sep 2010 by Dune Finkleberry Post: fingernail
67) Message boards : Cafe MilkyWay : Word Link VI (Message 42087) Posted 13 Sep 2010 by Dune Finkleberry Post: cute
68) Message boards : Cafe MilkyWay : Physics question... (Message 42086) Posted 13 Sep 2010 by Dune Finkleberry Post: More modern cars or safety concious manufacturers have head rests that lean slightly forward to help intercept/restrict the head movement in these scenarios. For racing car drivers they go a step further and have relatively recently introduced the HANS (Head and Neck Support) device to help avoid these sort of injuries to drivers in the likely case of incidents. This as well as many other improvements have significantly reduced the number of injuries drivers experience. The red car that my wife was driving was an older, but high performance car. It was a 1999 Pontiac Grand Am GT. I theorize, (there I go theorizing again ) that being a high performance car, it might be a little more safety conscience than say a lower performance car of the same year. Here's a stock picture of the old girl who a junk yard owns now. (Not necessarily our old car.) RIP....
69) Message boards : Cafe MilkyWay : Physics question... (Message 42076) Posted 12 Sep 2010 by Dune Finkleberry Post: The blue car would be worse off as some energy would be dissapated before hitting the red car. Depending on how close to the red one as how equal they would be. Also the blue one might get it both ways from getting hit and then hitting the red car. I've come to that conclusion myself over several other people answering the question I've posed here. I've figured that if there was 20 cars in line, and the red car was in front, it would be nearly impossible for the red car to get much more than a love-tap. My theory is flawed! There goes my Nobel! Thanks for your thoughts BW!
70) Message boards : Cafe MilkyWay : Word Link VI (Message 42058) Posted 12 Sep 2010 by Dune Finkleberry Post: magnet
71) Message boards : Cafe MilkyWay : Physics question... (Message 42050) Posted 11 Sep 2010 by Dune Finkleberry Post: OK. I'm not real big on Physics, but I know that there are others in here that are a bit more physics oriented than I am. Picture for a moment two cars stopped at a traffic light. Red car and blue car. Excuse the rough drawing below. It's just for illustration purposes only. Enter into the picture gray car lets say traveling at 25 MPH. Gray car doesn't see that traffic is stopped, and slams into blue car, which in turn hits red car. Would there be a pronounced whiplash effect on red car over blue car? A little history on this is my wife driving the red car, was hit waiting at a red light in the rear by the blue car because he was hit by the gray car. The gray car was deemed responsible for the accident and has to pay costs pertaining to the repairs and hospitalization of my wife for whiplash. (Not to mention the blue car who was really caught in between.) Am I making any sense? Weeks went by and my wife went back to the doc because of continued and unrelenting pain, and they finally ordered an MRI of my wife's neck and they've found 3 herniated discs in my wife's neck. She's in a great deal of pain. Now the doctor has to make a determination of whether the accident caused this, or if it was something that happened earlier. Now we know that she wasn't having a problem before the accident. But proving it is a completely different story. I'm theorizing that there would be an increased whiplash effect over the "slingshot" effect. But does my theory hold water? Of course any of your statements aren't really legally binding, but I'm trying to look at all the possibilities that are available to me. BTW.... I'm going to be posting at several forums trying to get the broadest range of answers. So you don't need to answer twice if you've seen it before.
72) Message boards : Cafe MilkyWay : Word Link VI (Message 42031) Posted 10 Sep 2010 by Dune Finkleberry Post: Lovey-Dovey
73) Message boards : Cafe MilkyWay : Word Link VI (Message 42029) Posted 10 Sep 2010 by Dune Finkleberry Post: pea
74) Message boards : Cafe MilkyWay : Word Link VI (Message 42017) Posted 9 Sep 2010 by Dune Finkleberry Post: beer
75) Message boards : Cafe MilkyWay : Word Link VI (Message 42003) Posted 9 Sep 2010 by Dune Finkleberry Post: hops
76) Message boards : Cafe MilkyWay : Word Link VI (Message 41979) Posted 7 Sep 2010 by Dune Finkleberry Post: puppeteer
77) Message boards : Cafe MilkyWay : Word Link VI (Message 41961) Posted 7 Sep 2010 by Dune Finkleberry Post: bass
78) Message boards : Cafe MilkyWay : Word Link VI (Message 41808) Posted 28 Aug 2010 by Dune Finkleberry Post: corruption
79) Message boards : Cafe MilkyWay : Word Link VI (Message 41793) Posted 27 Aug 2010 by Dune Finkleberry Post: Like
80) Message boards : Cafe MilkyWay : Word Link VI (Message 41772) Posted 27 Aug 2010 by Dune Finkleberry Post: fame

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