500,000 people will require hospitalization each year as a result of head injury. Every year 70,000 -90,000 people will suffer life long physical, intellectual and psychological disabilities as a result of their injury. Each year more than 30,000 New Yorkers suffer a head injury serious enough to be admitted to a hospital. It is estimated that 8,000 of these people will be left with serious or life-long disabilities as a result of their injury.
Brain injuries are the most frequent reasons for visits to physicians and emergency rooms.
One out of 80 children born this year are expected to die of a vehicular related brain injury before their 25th birthday. The typical person with a brain injury is a young male between the ages of 16 and 24 who is injured in a vehicular accident. Brain injury kills more Americans under the age of 34 than all other causes combined and has claimed more lives since the turn of the century than all U.S. wars combined.