Re: Speeding

Posted by oldtanker on July 24, 2019 at 10:01:00 from (66.228.255.203):

In Reply to: Speeding posted by Geo-TH,In on July 24, 2019 at 08:51:03:

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AHHH you should do a little research. I remember back in the late 60's and early 70's when folks did try to get the government to shut racing in the US down because of the number of drivers dying on the track. Why did they die? Because the safety equipment of the day did not protect the driver in a HIGH SPEED CRASH. Today's safety equipment on the race track makes a fatal wreck almost unheard of. You are not in a full crash cage with a 5 point harness and helmet on the highway.

So lets attack this this way.

The higher the speed of the vehicle/s involved in a wreck the greater chance of serious injury or death. Can't argue that. It's been proven time and again. Even just a human that's true. A human crawling bumps into something the get a little bump. Walking into something can result in a bloody nose. Run into something and now you have a broken nose, split skin and a concussion. Fall off something where your body achieves speeds in excess of 80-90 MPH or faster and you die. Same thing applies in a car accident. Bump into someone at 2-3 miles an hour and the only thing injured is your image. Get into something at 10-30 driving a modern vehicle with airbags and wearing a seat belt? Most likely bumps and bruises. Maybe a some neck. Get much faster than that and you start seeing broken bones and internal injuries. Hit something at 60-70, head on? May or may not live to tell about it.

They did a crash test on a popular sedan, mid sized, full head on, not partial, at 120 MPH. The determination was that even with seat belts and airbags it would not be a survivable accident even by back seat passengers.

Now because of the American and European Insurance companies they have come up with way for cops and the insurance company to determine vehicles speeds by skid marks, damage to the vehicle and such. Plus some vehicles have an EDR (mandatory sense 2014). Event data recorder. In the event of a serious injury or fatal accident the cops can and do get a search warrant and look at the data. So they can tell, even while they are planting your body if you were speeding and that was a contributing factor in an accident. Heck lets say you were doing 55 in a 55 on icy roads. By definition that's speeding because you were going "to fast for conditions".

So yea, the cops can say speed kills. That doesn't mean a person was speeding. But you have an accident at 70 on the interstate you have a much greater chance of dying than say a 5 MPH touched bumpers in the the parking lot accident barring "road rage".

Rick

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