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Do people not wearing seatbelts who are in car wreck have a ruptured spleen?
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Maybe: Not wearing seat-belts in a car accident can result in many severe injuries. The worst injury would be a brain injury. Other injuries would be rib fractures, heart injury, torn aorta or major vein, lung contusion, liver fracture, kidney fracture, intestinal rupture, spleen fracture, etc, etc, etc.
Answered 10/25/2015
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