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Originally Posted by BlackArcher101
Sure sure, the number of crashes can't be blamed on speed... however, how about the severity of those crashes?
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Don't get me wrong Redvan- I speed. A lot. But I think BA has a good point.
There was a link a while ago with an actor like the black one in the Allstate comercials. He is walking between two speeding cars in a "Matrix" type of camera angles. Both cars are going to crach into this semi that just pulled out. Both hit the brakes at the exact same time. (The speeding car was just about to pass the slower car at the time of braking.) What it showed was that at the point of impact, the slower car was doing something like 12 km/h when it hit, as opposed to 45 km/h. Not sure of the exact numbers; it was significant.