>>>>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#!>>>
>>>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.
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>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.
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>Get too busy texting/talking/drinking and someone swerves into the oncoming traffic.
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>Lots of little pieces to sweep up or soak up.
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>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.
Yes
deep roadside ditches really restrict your options.
I remember headbutting a windscreen when we went off the road into a ditch. Younger days and a friend who had drunk too much was driving. I was lucky and only ended up with 10 or so stitches holding my upper lip together.