Always go to the ER right after an accident that severe, even if you don't feel that you have been injured. Two or three days after such an accident, you will often begin to feel pain that was not there when the accident happened.
I jammed my left knee when my son was about four years old. We had been rear ended. I thought I was fine, but for the rest of my life my knee had a tendency to "go out", and it can be painful.
@coffeedimplez I learned the hard way. When I was rear ended five years ago, I had the ambulance take me to the ER because my neck felt funny. It turned out that the impact affected my brain. Normally I suffer from visual migraines, and I have for years.
I found out that the accident had kicked up the visual migraines to level 10, and I began to experience stroke-like symptoms three days after the accident. One side of my face sagged down, as it would in a stroke. Then my right eye began to cross all by itself (visually only), but when I looked in the mirror it was not crossed. It began to happen while I was working, and I was terrified it would happen while I was driving. I had to see a neurologist who was no help whatsoever. He told me to pull over if it happened while I was driving.
To this day, five years later, I have odd symptoms and my eye continues to "cross" all by itself. If I had known it would never get better, I would have hired a lawyer.
