Road collision types
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Road traffic collisions generally fall into one of five common types:
A Mercury Tracer that was damaged by colliding with a white-tailed deer in Wisconsin
A Dodge Ram 3500 which has crashed into a restaurant
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Roadway departure
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A roadway departure is a type of incident that occurs when a vehicle leaves the roadway. Such incidents can lead to a single-vehicle collision.
Road collision types
…which occur when a driver leaves the lane they are in and collides with another vehicle or a roadside object. These include head-on collisions and roadway departure collisions. Collisions at junctions, including rear-end collision and angle or side impacts…
A run-off-road collision with a tree in Pinneberg, Germany in 2010