Ok, this may sound odd but when I was in a bad accident a year ago, I didn't break anything. This winter, I slipped on ice and broke my arm in two places. Why would I not break anything in my accident but my arm in a simple fall?
Your bones are made to withstand and absorb a lot of shock. Different bones are built different ways according to what their job is in your body. Although we can't say why you didn't break anything in your accident, the most common fractures in an arm are from falling and putting your hand out to stop yourself from the fall.
When people put their arm out to break their fall, the weight of their body falls entirely on that one arm. When this happens, the arm not only absorbs the shock of the fall, it absorbs the weight of your body, which is likely too much of a stress load for it to bear.
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