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An unrestrained right rear seat passenger was propelled forward during a front-end collision. She landed in the right front passenger seat with her face impacting the front windshield. Her chin is resting on the dashboard and her face is just inside the shattered windshield. Multiple abrasions and superficial lacerations from the broken glass of the windshield cover her face. If the broken glass is sharp enough, the edges of the wounds may be clean enough to be considered incised wounds.

Fig.1 Passenger propelled forward during a front-end collision.

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