It is essential to obtain the details of injury in depth. This is an important part of the evaluation, as it provides a context for their physical complaints and may give clues to the correct diagnosis.

When talking about motor vehicle accidents, the following information is obtained in order to provide correct diagnosis and treatment.

Was the patient the driver or a passenger?

If a passenger, in the front or back seat?

What was the nature of the accident (e.g., head-on collision, rear-ended, rollover)?

Was the patient restrained?

Were the airbags deployed?

What was the speed of the vehicles involved?

When did the accident occur?

Were you seen by EMT’s and were you transported to the hospital?

If an ER visit was had, was there imaging? Where there any fractures? Where medications prescribed?