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 Topic: 2000 Caught In Week Long Speeding Clampdown |
ScaredAmoeba
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 Forum: News And Latest Information Posted: Wed Sep 02, 2015 10:39 pm Subject: 2000 Caught In Week Long Speeding Clampdown |
How can speed itself kill? Come on brains, answer that!
Speed or inertia cannot kill, unless you attempted to go from 0 to 186,000 mps (yes! that miles per second) in a second in which case you'd b ... |
| Topic: 2000 Caught In Week Long Speeding Clampdown |
ScaredAmoeba
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Forum: News And Latest Information Posted: Wed Sep 02, 2015 10:43 am Subject: Re: if you collide at 40mph |
Which is further, independent confirmation that increased speed increases the likelihood of a collision.
Nonsense. All that it shows is that, for a very specific and limited case (unsupervised, young ... |
| Topic: 2000 Caught In Week Long Speeding Clampdown |
ScaredAmoeba
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Forum: News And Latest Information Posted: Wed Sep 02, 2015 10:37 am Subject: 2000 Caught In Week Long Speeding Clampdown |
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| Topic: 2000 Caught In Week Long Speeding Clampdown |
ScaredAmoeba
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Forum: News And Latest Information Posted: Wed Sep 02, 2015 10:13 am Subject: Re: if you collide at 40mph |
It has been shown that as speeds increase, the probability and violence of collisions increase.
While I can accept that, in the case of a collision, the Impact will increase with increasing speed dif ... |
| Topic: 2000 Caught In Week Long Speeding Clampdown |
ScaredAmoeba
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Forum: News And Latest Information Posted: Wed Sep 02, 2015 9:18 am Subject: Re: if you collide at 40mph |
"if you collide at 40mph then the pedestrian only has a 20 per cent chance of survival." - this appears to significantly be in error.
A quick check shows two sources which are similar but show the ... |
| Topic: 2000 Caught In Week Long Speeding Clampdown |
ScaredAmoeba
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Forum: News And Latest Information Posted: Wed Sep 02, 2015 8:04 am Subject: Speed and speeding both kill |
| From a report produced by the Helsinki City Planning Department, Finland, states that “a speed of 50 km/hr increases the risk of a pedestrian death almost eight-fold compared to 30 km/hr.” The graph b ... |
| Topic: 2000 Caught In Week Long Speeding Clampdown |
ScaredAmoeba
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Forum: News And Latest Information Posted: Wed Sep 02, 2015 7:22 am Subject: 2000 Caught In Week Long Speeding Clampdown |
| He added "If you collide with a pedestrian at 30mph they have a 80 per cent chance of survival, however if you collide at 40mph then the pedestrian only has a 20 per cent chance of survival."Then they ... |
| Topic: 2000 Caught In Week Long Speeding Clampdown |
ScaredAmoeba
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Views: 14877
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Forum: News And Latest Information Posted: Wed Sep 02, 2015 7:10 am Subject: Re: if you collide at 40mph |
"if you collide at 40mph then the pedestrian only has a 20 per cent chance of survival." - this appears to significantly be in error.
A quick check shows two sources which are similar but show the ... |
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