Re: crash tests etc...

[Mike Mulholland <meyeke@netinc.ca>]

huw i agree with the theory...but we had just executed a panic stop when the
lead car had hit the binders for no apparent reason, and were giving a
combined 'whew we made it' as we were hit! i was still intent on the other
guys bumper at the time of the hit. 

At 07:14 PM 12/15/99 -0500, you wrote:
>> hmmm..i guess that would explain the _severe_ whiplash when my car was rear-
>> ended immediately after i had stopped rapidly to avoid the also rapidly
>> stopped car ahead of me....and the driver behind me was asleep. they hit my
>> stopped car at ~ 40mph without braking and with me fully stopped but with my
>> brakes still firmly applied
>
>Ouch.  double ouch.  40mph - quadruple turbo ouch!
>
>hint, if you see you're about to be rear ended, especially hard, get off
>the brakes, and if you can, take off as fast as possible to minimise the
>rear impact.  If you must hit something try to time it so both impacts
>occur at the same time.
>
>-- 
>Huw Powell
>
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>
>82 Audi Coupe; 84 4kq; 85 Coupe GT; 73 F250
>
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>
>
mike
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