| If you're unfortunate enough to be one of
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| | down about four times. It all went really
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| the 200,000 Britons who suffer a whiplash
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| | quick and before I knew it I was in the
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| injury every year, you'll know how
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| | gravel.After I walked away from the crash
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| painful and distressing it can be.Even a
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| | I saw my car looked completely destroyed,
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| bump in the car at speeds as slow as 5mph
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| | but I haven't even got a bruise on my
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| can result in whiplash, often leading to
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| | body. That's how safe Formula One is
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| visits to the doctor, time off work and
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| | nowadays."Albers' lack of personal
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| pains in the neck, back and head. And all
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| | injuries is indeed testament to the
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| that from the tiniest of collisions -
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| | unbelievable protection that modern
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| collisions often so minor that the car
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| | racing cars offer. Formula One drivers
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| won't even have lost a bumper or a number
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| | sit in a carbon fibre cocoon-like
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| plate.So if us normal folk are getting
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| | structure that forms the basis of the
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| hurt in road accidents at crawling speed,
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| | car, which, constructed from hundreds of
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| how on earth do motor racing drivers
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| | separate components, is designed to
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| manage to walk away from terrifying
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| | protect the driver in even the most
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| looking smashes that occur at immense
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| | furious of impacts. Ensuring that the
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| speeds? Obviously there are some tragic
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| | driver's head is protected is a rigid
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| exceptions, but the majority of racing
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| | hoop protruding several inches above his
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| drivers involved in high-speed accidents
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| | head, intended to hit the ground first if
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| climb out of their wrecked cars, dust
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| | the car should roll over.All the safety
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| themselves off and trudge back to the
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| | devices in the world are no good if the
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| pits with not a whiplash injury in
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| | driver is still going to be thrown around
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| sight.If you or I had just hit a wall of
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| | so violently in an accident that a
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| tyres or bounced off another car at over
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| | whiplash injury is almost a guarantee. To
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| 100mph, it's fair to say that whiplash
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| | protect drivers from getting whiplash,
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| would probably be the last thing on our
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| | Formula One cars are now fitted with a
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| minds. But today's top-of-the-range
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| | specialist preventative system as
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| racing cars give the driver enormous
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| | standard.Designed in the United States,
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| protection, usually enabling him to
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| | the Head And Neck Support (HANS) system
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| survive uninjured inside what has, in all
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| | features a carbon fibre collar which is
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| essence, become a giant lump of expensive
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| | connected securely to the upper body,
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| scrap metal.Just to demonstrate the
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| | with straps attaching it to the helmet.
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| point, it's worth casting the mind back
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| | It is intended to prevent the head from
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| several weeks to the Formula One San
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| | being thrown forward in an accident and,
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| Marino Grand Prix at the infamous Imola
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| | much to the delight of the drivers, has
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| circuit. This is the track that took the
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| | proved to be a resounding success in the
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| life of Roland Ratzenberger and the
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| | past few years. Whiplash injuries used to
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| legendary Ayrton Senna more than a decade
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| | be an all too common sight in motor
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| ago, and although the circuit has been
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| | racing, but thanks to HANS, they are
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| made distinctly less dangerous since that
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| | slowly but surely becoming a thing of the
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| fateful May afternoon, it still has some
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| | past.With modern technological
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| wicked bends and testing turns.Anyway,
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| | developments advancing at an astounding
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| April 23rd 2006 witnessed a car crash
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| | rate, it might not be long before a
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| involving Christijan Albers that saw his
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| | HANS-type system is seen in all regular
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| MF1-Toyota spinning through the air
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| | cars, cutting down the hundreds of
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| before crashing to the ground and coming
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| | thousands of whiplash injuries suffered
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| to rest face-down in the gravel. The
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| | on our roads every year, and saving a lot
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| Dutchman's car had been clipped at the
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| | of people a massive pain in the, erm,
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| rear by an overeager Japanese driver, and
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| | neck.Editorial notes: YouClaim are the
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| such a devastating accident would surely
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| | leading online personal injury
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| have killed someone in a regular road
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| | compensation claim people with a 97%
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