Delayed Internal Bleeding From a Car Collision
March 2025
Car collisions are traumatic events that often leave visible injuries. However, a dangerous and life-threatening condition that can result from a car collision is delayed internal bleeding. This silent and non-visible threat may not manifest immediately and put a person involved in a car collision at risk long after they have left the collision scene.
Internal bleeding occures when blood vessels are damaged due to the impact of a car collision. The damaged blood vessels then leak blood into the body cavities or tissues. What makes internal bleeding dangerous is that the symptoms may not appearl until hours, days or weeks after the collision.
Several factors may contribute to the delayed onset of internal bleeding. One factor is that the internal bleeding may occur slowly with symptoms becoming noticeable only as blood loss accumulates over time. Another factor may be the location of where the bleed occurs in the body with some locations taking longer to manifest than others.
If you have been injured in a car collision. take the time to find experienced trial counsel. At Herrick & Hart we have been on the side the injured since 1951. We have attorneys that have vast trial experience and have tried cases in courtrooms across the State of Wisconsin for decades.