When the chest impacts the steering wheel during a motor vehicle crash with rapid deceleration, the resulting injury that kills almost one third of patients, usually within seconds, is:

A. a hemothorax.
B. aortic shearing.
C. a pneumothorax.
D. a ruptured myocardium.


Answer: B. aortic shearing.

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Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).

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