Impact: Stories of Survival
tv show
30 total episodes
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3 seasons
First Aired July 01, 2002
Genres:
Overview
Impact: Stories of Survival is a documentary television series that premiered in 2002 on and was produced by the Discovery Health Channel. The program is based on life-threatening situations in which the victim experienced a moment of impact. Featuring video of the event, reenactments, and interviews with surgeons, doctors, and the victims, Impact takes its viewers through the full process of the victims impact, treatment and recovery. There is also a segment where a computerized animation shows in detail how the impact affected the victim's body showing how and to what extent bones, organs, veins, etc. were injured.
Building Collapse
Season 2 - Episode 10 - 1h 0m
Air Date
May 14, 2004
Overview
Man impaled through skull by rebar; Building collapses on firefighter; Parachutist smacks against hillside at 40 MPH; Tackle splits a highschool football player's liver in half