This is how medical school ruins moments like this. Go ahead and watch the clip if you haven’t.
It’s obviously fake, and you can come at this from the cinematic approach but I’ll show you how someone in the medical field would view this.
When a pedestrian is struck by a car like that the bumper will impact the lower leg, the hip or shoulder will then impact the hood of the car and the shoulder or head will impact the windshield. At this point the pedestrian is going to be thrown to the side of the vehicle or forward. “But wait Josh, she’s kind of thrown forward in the clip!” Ok, when I say thrown forward I mean thrown forward. Think physics and the transfer of kinetic energy here, there would have been a great distance between the car and the pedestrian post impact. Also notice the lack of dent in the hood of the car.
At high speeds (like on a highway) the victim is going to fly up and over the car, and then could be run over. At the speed depicted the pedestrian would be thrown to the side or forward. For the pedestrian to be run over as depicted, the car would have to be going slow. As in slow enough that the pedestrian could be briskly walked out of the way.
When a pedestrian is thrown up onto the hood/windshield we often find pelvic, and rib fractures. Depending on the angle of the collision spine fractures are also commonly seen. The blunt force of the impact often ruptures organs and causes internal bleeding. The most common cause of death in a collision is head and neck injuries. Facial, skull and neck fractures are the usual suspects. Epideral and subdural hemorrhages are also usually caused by the force of the impact to the head. So yeah, don’t get hit by a speeding car, ok?
There you have it. It’s frustrating watching movies at times because people who make movies rarely have any idea how these things work, so I end up laughing awkwardly at traumatic scenes that creep people out.
