Google announced in a blog post Thursday that a recent fender-bender with one of its self-driving car resulted in “a bit of minor whiplash, and a few scrapes on our bumper.”

The July 1 incident marks the company’s 14th accident since 2009, and the first involving an injury of any kind.

“I'll point out that the ‘injuries’ aren't as big a deal as some media outlets might have you believe,” Courtney Hohne, a Google spokeswoman, told Ars. “We took our drivers to visit a local hospital purely as a precautionary measure because they were experiencing minor whiplash; they were checked out briefly and sent home. (They were never admitted to the hospital.)”

Chris Urmson, the head of the self-driving car team, wrote in the blog post that the Google car was rear-ended at 17 mph: “This certainly seems like the driver was distracted and not watching the road ahead.”

He added: