agree 100%. We just found it funny how all the accidents they have been in they were driving well below or at the speed limit.

 

How lucky he got there.

I don't want anything edge, sharp on my car, so no key fob will be on my car, but i did put my goggles on top of the trunk after mowing the lawn 2 times back to back (in 2 weeks) and crushed on the street. SMH... I am on my third pair now.

 

Exactly. Simple physics. I don't know why so many drivers have such a hard time accepting that fact. Kids learn it as far back as grade school.

Of course, different vehicles handle and absurd those crash forces in different ways, which is why the NHTSA and IIHS conduct the crash-tests with dummies. At the same speed and same impact, on the same object, you could have different results from different vehicles.

 

Because its not as simple as that. You aren't driving in a vacuum the only person on the road. Of course your chances of being injured go up the faster you're going, but your chances of being in an accident in general go down the more closely you travel to the 85th percentile speed on a roadway.

So if you are on a highway going 55 and the 85th percentile speed is 75, you have a greater likelihood of being in an accident in general than if you were going 75.

 

 

Agreed, but its the truth though. mmarshall's "I don't know why so many drivers have a hard time accepting that fact", the reason being is that from a practical real world standpoint it isn't true, because most accidents don't involve one car running into a pole, they involve one or more cars running into each other.

 

 

Yes, there is some truth in that, but, the slower vehicles are going when they DO run into each other, Jill's point is made...the less damage there will be.

An excellent example is on the mountainous part of I-64 from VA into WV, which is a route that I know you travel regularly. That stretch of I-64 is notorious for major pile-ups, in low-visibility conditions, when dozens of vehicles add to the pile-up because they see it too late and can't stop in time because they are going too fast.

 

Simplistic thinking on what isn't a simple set of variables.

 

I dunno, it's a delicate topic but imho religion doesn't have anything to do with the key fob, at least my point of view is such. Just physics.

Reminds me of when I had a g/f from VT back in the day, we would get off 87N for route 149. Everybody who skis Killington and lives to the south, like NYC/NJ knows this exit in the Lake George area. There's a fair amount of traffic so I had to get on it to make a left out of those shoppes, and there is this clinking sound all over the place. I say what the **** is that? She goes oh no, I left my change purse on the roof. I have no idea how we could be this stupid, but we attempted to pick up as many quarters as we could. Thinking back, even if it were say $15, based on the amount of traffic, let it go. I guess no miracles for us that day. Then again she was 23 and I was 25, so I guess money was tight.

Things remain on the roof, things fall off the roof, what you gonna do?