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After an accident has occurred, there are a minimal number of low speed crash tests to assist the accident reconstructionist/engineer in determining the speed of a vehicle from little or no visible vehicle damage. Injuries are being documented by individuals as occurring in relatively low speed collisions. Yet, the impact speeds that have been taught to cause little or no damage do not suggest that injuries should have occurred at these correspondingly low G-forces. No comparison of the injury versus vehicle speed will be done in this paper; that is left to the biomechanical engineers and physicians. The purpose of this paper is to examine the issue of low speed impacts and the corresponding damage or shock isolator movement to the vehicle. For the purpose of this paper a low speed collision is an in line impact at a speed below 6 m/s.