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Originally Posted by sweetbmxrider
Youtube vids of airbags deploying while drag racing.....funny to watch but not when its your car. Also, you have to look at some of the intense wrecks that occur in motorsports at very high rates of speed yet the driver walks away. Then you look at 40-60mph wrecks on the street where most are taken by ambulance and any speed above that, the driver usually doesn't fair too well. So I guess we are only arguing the "street" environment here and not a track of any sort. Still, it must hold some water.
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Apples to oranges I think. The kind of wreck, the circumstance really matter. Race cars don’t usually get t-boned, get hit head on or otherwise stop dead in their tracks. that is why the new camaro has stupid high belt lines, side impact protection. How many of those race wrecks involve a lot of energy dissipation? Indy cars disintegrate. Winston cup cars slide 2500’+ down the track and bounce around, maybe even get airborne. Except Earnhardt, and that didn’t work out to well for him. But usually no trees or telephone poles stopping them, etc. Plus the average pro race car driver is in better shape than I am so I expect them to fare better than I, all else being equal.
I watched a ford explorer fly through the air on the turnpike last year. So much energy dissolved from the movement, both on the street & in the air. If that girl had her belts on she lives. But she flew out the window.
Old saying is true: it’s not the fall that kills you. It’s the sudden stop.