Why has it taken so long for someone to think of this? Women and children are smaller and lighter than men, we are thrown around more in a crash, and I am speaking as a person seriously injured in car crashes as a passenger in a few car accidents from childhood to adulthood.
The impact injuries can be serious lifelong and life altering injuries, which affect many aspects of life for the rest of our lives. Women of child bearing age with serious injuries have the added problem of having children and living with injuries that affect them in raising their children, such as not being able to pick up the child to hold them because of back, neck, hip, shoulder and even elbow and wrist injuries causing severe pain and discomfort. The lighter body weight causes more whiplash injuries and impact injuries to the neck and spine. Then there is damage to the body’s nervous system and some injuries can worsen as we age too.
