First Aired: July 1st, 2002
Status: Ended
Genre: Documentary
Air Time: Monday, 08:00 PM
Network: Discovery Health Channel
Summary: 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.
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Season 3
Episode 4: Propeller Smash
Air Date: December 6th, 2004
Summary: Racecar driver receives severe spinal fracture from crashing and spinning out at over 200 MPH; Airplane propeller slices through mechanic's head; 12-year-old boy pinned behind 1000 pounds of dry wall; Extreme skier falls over 600 feet down rocky mountainside
Episode 5: A Jump Too Far
Air Date: January 10th, 2005
Summary: Motocross jumper overshoots his landing and slams into the ground; Man in pickup truck hits metal pipe gate head-on and is impaled through the stomach; A criminal shoots a cop four times at close range and hijacks her car; A teenage girl is accidentally hit in the head with a golf club
Episode 6: Dragster Disintegrates
Air Date: February 7th, 2005
Summary: Drag racer's car crashes and disintegrates at 300 MPH; Camper trips and falls face-first on a pitch fork; A woman's heart stops when she is struck by lightning at the beach; Bull rider hit in head by bull's horn, then is trampled two months later
Episode 7: Photographer Electrocuted
Air Date: February 28th, 2005
Summary: Shark bites teenage girl's leg off; Metal scrap flies through car windshield and impales passenger through the neck; News photographer touches power line with antenna and is electrocuted with 15,000 volts; Jockey falls during race and is trampled by a stampede of horses
Episode 8: Paralyzed Player
Air Date: March 21st, 2005
Summary: A high school football player is paralyzed from the neck down after a tackle; Two victims are both shot in the head during a parking lot robbery; A car accident leaves a teenage boy impaled by a two-by-four and the removal surgery is caught on tape; Strong winds cause a skydiver to hit the ground with the impact of a four-story fall
Episode 9: Motocross Mess
Air Date: April 11st, 2005
Summary: Motocross jumper comes up short and crashes into sand dune; A hiker falls into a creek and is swept over a 40-foot waterfall; A teenager gets a blood clot on his brain after being hit in the head with a baseball, the accident leads to the discovery that his kidneys are failing; A robber beats a tobacco store clerk and hits her over the head with a stool
Episode 10: Tornado Survivor
Air Date: April 25th, 2005
Summary: Tornado winds hurl a wooden stake into a woman's neck; A veterinarian is bitten by a diamondback rattlesnake and no hospital nearby has the antivenin; A man's legs are severed when he is crushed between two trucks; Motocross jumper Brian Deegan crashes while attempting a stunt involving a back flip
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