On the night of Wednesday, March 25th, in West Phoenix, Arizona, a man died after getting knocked down by a vehicle. The authorities identified him as 64-year-old Herman Nakai.
Sergeant Mercedes Fortune, with the Phoenix Police Department, said that they received a call about the crash and sent officers to an area near 59th Avenue and Osborn Road. When they arrived, the officers found Nakai lying on the roadway.
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When the medics checked on him, they found the man unresponsive and pronounced him dead. Fortune said the vehicle that struck the man was driven by a 45-year-old man, whose name is withheld.
The police believe that the driver was not impaired, but he might have been driving at an unsafe speed. The investigation remains ongoing, and it’s not clear if Nakai was crossing the road or walking at the time of the crash.
When a car hits a pedestrian, the position he or she was at the time determines the extent of his or her injuries. There are three points of contact when a car collides with a human body, and the first is the initial impact.
The latter occurs when a car bumper hits the leg or knee joint, and the thigh connects with the edge of the hood, causing the body to contour. The second is the trajectory, which occurs when the lower body is thrown forward, and the upper body is relative to the hood.
The third and last is the ground contact when the pedestrian falls to the ground. The three leave the pedestrian with severe trauma to the head, lower body, and torso.
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