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"Magnulus" > wrote in message
... > > "Jim Yanik" .> wrote in message > .. . > > If you carefully examine the Earnhardt collision with the wall,you would > > see that the impact was not that big an impact,for 180 MPH.It was a > grazing > > impact,too.Other race car drivers have survived worse impacts. > > I watched the replay of it. The car appeared to slow down a bit, but > then accelerated into the wall. It was just maybe 20 degrees short of a > full frontal impact. He didn't just graze the wall. > > His seatbelt may have also failed in the accident. A HANS device might > have assisted the seatbelt in keeping him in place. We'll never know though > because there was no indepedent autopsy. > > At any rate- a typical road vehicle collision is dealing with forces of > magnitudes less than the typical racecar collision. A helmet for a car > doesn't necessarily have to be as heavy as a motorcycle helmet, either. > Nobody will be driving around their cars at over 100 mph, at least nobody > remotely sane. What about those in places where roads are designed to handle speeds in excess of 100 MPH and those speeds are the norm? I suppose those people aren't even remotely sane being as how they are exceeding the arbitrary numbers established in the U.S. for revenue collection? |
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