Find Out If Your Insurance Covers These Car Injuries

Will your insurance cover these?

When you think of the damage cars can inflict on people, traffic accidents probably leap to mind. Yet crashes are only one cause of car-related injuries. In 2011 and 2012, an average of 647,000 people suffered non-crash car injuries each year, according to estimates from a recent National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) report.

Here are the three most common injury causes cited in the report:

Being struck by a vehicle part, such as a door or trunk lid, or striking a vehicle (32 percent of all injuries reported)

Falls while entering or exiting vehicles (23 percent)

Overexertion, such as from unloading cargo from a trunk or the back of a pickup (11 percent)