There’s quite a large discrepancy between this image and OPs image. This image says the survival rate of 30 mph (48 kph) is 60%, while OP’s image says 50 kph it’s at 20%. I wish they included a source for the data that could explain it.
This is the same issue I take with braking distance scales. They often vary wildly, and some don’t even follow a quadratic increase in distance like you’d expect.
The energy difference is only really relevant if the thing you’re hitting is significantly heavier or at least similarly heavy like a house or another car. For a person it’s still much worse, but that is moreso because of the high hood of the car.
I know pickup trucks are heavy, but I’m surprised they are 16 times heavier than a Honda civic. The more you learn.
We wouldn’t have so much trouble with this if all men had the same size dick upbringing that leads to the sort of maturity that leads people to be not shit.
I got hit by a large SUV doing between 30mph and 40mph a few years ago. I can’t tell you why or how, but I had a split second to twist and plant my hands on the hood and jump so I went up instead of under. Went into the windshield (broke it) and then got launched when she slammed on the brakes. It put my radius and ulna into my hands, my back into my guts, and knocked my brain so hard I gave the emergency crew a phone number that belonged to a girlfriend I’d broken up with almost 20yrs prior. Took me a year to be able to write again, not just physically. I’d start putting words to paper and end up with gibberish because between my brain and my hand it didn’t connect. Had to leave post-it notes around the house as a check list- did you eat, bathe, brush your teeth, feed the dogs, piss? My ability to sleep was wrecked, no circadian rythym. I don’t entirely believe in fate, but how the fuck that didn’t kill or cripple me boggles my mind (what’s left of it) daily.
This needs to be updated.
Getting hit by a pickup truck at 30 MPH is similar to getting hit by a Honda Civic at 120 MPH for kinetic energy.
That’s besides the fact that pickups have a much taller hood vs sedans so there are significantly higher rates of head/internal injury.
Taller cars and trucks are more dangerous for pedestrians, according to crash data
https://www.chicago.gov/city/en/sites/complete-streets-chicago/home/traffic-safety/vehicle-size-and-speed.html
There’s quite a large discrepancy between this image and OPs image. This image says the survival rate of 30 mph (48 kph) is 60%, while OP’s image says 50 kph it’s at 20%. I wish they included a source for the data that could explain it.
This is the same issue I take with braking distance scales. They often vary wildly, and some don’t even follow a quadratic increase in distance like you’d expect.
The energy difference is only really relevant if the thing you’re hitting is significantly heavier or at least similarly heavy like a house or another car. For a person it’s still much worse, but that is moreso because of the high hood of the car.
I know pickup trucks are heavy, but I’m surprised they are 16 times heavier than a Honda civic. The more you learn.
We wouldn’t have so much trouble with this if all men had the same size dick.
Let’s not bring body shaming into this mmkay?
They’d just lie about it anyway
Well… the person in the last photo looks like they’re not happy about getting hit by a moving vehicle at all.
If we’re going for efficiency, I think getting hit by both cars is the right move.
I got hit by a large SUV doing between 30mph and 40mph a few years ago. I can’t tell you why or how, but I had a split second to twist and plant my hands on the hood and jump so I went up instead of under. Went into the windshield (broke it) and then got launched when she slammed on the brakes. It put my radius and ulna into my hands, my back into my guts, and knocked my brain so hard I gave the emergency crew a phone number that belonged to a girlfriend I’d broken up with almost 20yrs prior. Took me a year to be able to write again, not just physically. I’d start putting words to paper and end up with gibberish because between my brain and my hand it didn’t connect. Had to leave post-it notes around the house as a check list- did you eat, bathe, brush your teeth, feed the dogs, piss? My ability to sleep was wrecked, no circadian rythym. I don’t entirely believe in fate, but how the fuck that didn’t kill or cripple me boggles my mind (what’s left of it) daily.
That’s horrible. I can’t imagine going through that.
Glad you’re alive. Thank you for sharing.
K = 1/2*m*v^2
You’d have to be very unlucky to get hit ffrom both side at the same time though