Re: FN-FORUM: [OT] Speed cameras and speed camera detectors

date posted 1st June 2003 10:30

> Sure, you've got your crumple zones, seat
> belts, and airbags, but the human body can only withstand so many G's
> before internal organs and blood vessels are torn apart. The forces
> experienced when decelerating from 60 mph to zero by hitting an
> immovable object are survivable. This is equivalent to two cars
> colliding head on. As the cumulative speeds of two colliding vehicles
> exceeds 70mph, death due to becomes almost inevitable.

I'm not entirely sure of the accuracy of this. I watched a program on road
safety recently where they were showing footage of this guy's experiments -
http://www.nationalaviation.org/museum_enshrinee.asp?eraid=5&enshrineeid=394

The program gave the impression that it isn't so much the "stopping" but the
fact that you don't actually stop, you flap around at x miles per hour in a
poorly designed seat belt, ripping your innards asunder and bits of the car
invade your personal space :)

Andy