OT: Even A VW could save their lives

[dswalterwi at gmail.com (Don Walter)]

*A picture is worth a thousand words.

**The Honda rider was traveling at such a "very high speed", his reaction
time was not sufficient enough to avoid this accident. Swedish Police
estimate a speed of ~250 KM/h (155mph) before the bike hit the slow moving
car side-on at an intersection. At that speed, they predicted that the
rider's reaction time
(once the vehicle came into view) wasn't sufficient enough for him to even
apply the brakes. The car had two passengers and the bike rider was found
INSIDE the car with them. The Volkswagen actually flipped over from the
force of impact and landed 10 feet from where the collision took place. *

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All three involved (two in car and rider) were killed instantly. This
graphic demonstration was placed at the Stockholm Motorcycle Fair by the
Swedish Police and Road Safety Department. The sign above the display also
noted that the rider had only recently obtained his license.

At 250 KM (155 mph) the operator is traveling at
227 feet per second. With normal reaction time to SEE-DECIDE-REACT of
1.6seconds the above operator would have traveled over 363 feet while
making a
decision on what actions to take. In this incident the Swedish police
indicate that no actions were taken.
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Pictures: http://scirocco.dyn.dhs.org/vw/list/Don_Walter/VW_Crash/


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Don Walter - Waukesha, WI
1986 8V Black Scirocco (Daily Driver)
1984 8V Audi 4000s (RIP 2/14/2006)
1986 2.0L 16V TEC 2 Black Scirocco (see progress at
http://www.cardomain.com/memberpage/708939)
1986 2L 16V Toronado Red Scirocco (Ben's Car)
1988 1.8 16V Toronado Red Scirocco (sold on 3/29/04)
1984 1.8 8V Pewter Scirocco (sold years ago)
1971 Karman Ghia (sold)
1969 Karman Ghia (sold)
1969 Beetle (sold)