>>>Here's something to make you think about speeding.
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>>>120mph crash test
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>>>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dI5ewOmHPQ&feature=player_embedded#!
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>>Their logic seems a bit wonky. One car hitting a wall at 120 is not the same as two cars hitting each other head on at 120. Wouldn't the car have to do 240 to simulate that ?
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>>In practice I'd guess a combined impact speed of 120 is *very* rare. Usually one or both drivers has braked pretty hard before the impact - the 40 mph test is probably a truer reflection of what happens in reality....
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>Yes
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>I didn't listen to the commentary.
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>But I would have thought a head on at 60 ish was possible on the country roads. Driver A takes a left hand bend too fast and is an idiot and driver B coming the other way is yacking on his/her mobile while trying to fish a toffee out of a bag between their knees so no braking.

It does happen out here. We have a lot of 2 lane roads with 65MPH limits (which means the drunken country boys are doing 75+). Ditches on either side so no place to hide.

Get too busy texting/talking/drinking and someone swerves into the oncoming traffic.

Lots of little pieces to sweep up or soak up.

At those speeds the only possible survivor is the driver of the tractor trailer, and that is unlikely.

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>All said though I can't conceive of a way decelerating that fast could be survivable whatever sort of vehicle you where in.

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