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Anon @ 20 November 2017 11:30 GMT:

You've been lucky.

I was involved in an apparently minor RTA in 1998, when my car (which as not moving at all at the time) was hit by another car which was probably doing less than 20 mph at the time.

I suffered permanent damage to my shoulder and neck and have not had a single pain-free day since.

From the various consultants etc. I've seen, it seems that I was unlucky, and that the effect on me was probably a mostly down to the exact angle the car hit mine, (it hit the side of my car)although other things may have played a role. Although given that it also hit hard enough to completely destroy the front axle and suspension it's perhaps not surprising that it damaged me as well.
At first, the presumption was that I had simply suffered fro whiplash / soft tissue damage. It took much longer to establish that there was more serious underlying damage.

Since then I have been involved in 2 separate minor accidents - both times my car was hit in a rear end shunt - again, low speed (once, I was waiting to turn right at a junction, it had been raining and the guy behind was going a little too fast for the conditions and failed to stop in time. In the other, I had stopped at a red traffic light and the elderly gentleman in the elderly Volvo behind me failed to stop in time)

Both times I suffered from whiplash and it took about 6 months before I was close to being back to 'normal-for-me'. Neither collision was powerful enough to trigger the airbags in my car and in both cases the visible damage to my car was negligible (although the underlying damage resulted in about £2,000 worth of repairs the first time, and the car being written of the second time)