'If you crash at 38mph your airbags stop you, but what stops your internal organs which are also travelling at 38mph'
Says my local Safety Camera Partneship website...
Well, a racing driver I know went into the wall in turn 4 at Rockingham at over 130mph a few weeks back and his liver didn't come flying through the windscreen...
ROFL...
I hit a very solid tree at about that speed, maybe a bit more in a 1991 Pug
205. My seatbelt quite happily stopped me, and 3 years later I still not aware of any internal organs missing/broken. In fact the next evening I was out clubbing!!
It is true though in a sense, the most common cause of death from a crash is from internal organ failure, and this arises after you hit a solid object object and your heart caries on moving, which in turn ruptures the aorta, it's pot luck if yours ruptures, but some people walk away from an accident only to die instantly hours later.
It doesn't take much for it to happen, and 38mph into a brick wall would easily do it :)
You hit a tree at 130mph and the next night you were out clubbing? bollox!.
Fuck off you tedious bogtrotting bastard.
Come back when you've learned to post anything other than "my mate Steve's got a dead fast car" and mini rants about what you've misread in other people's postings.
your skin?
What stops your local Safety Camera Partneship from making up any old bollocks?
Actually it was probably nearer 140, and I dont think I was wearing a seatbelt, I just held on tight.
Nothing. Indeed, they do it all the time.
For stating a fact?
Well he has, hasn't he.
Example?
These people may help if the advertising is false:
Of course you did, did I tell you about the time I tried to break the land speed record in New Zealand in my Porsche? it crashed at over 200mph and I walked away from in in my speedos and went surfing later that morning.
Ah, that was *you* was it. ;-)
Which Pratnership (sic) is that?
This post ?
The speed Carl was obviously reffering to in his first post is the 38mph mentioned in the original post.
Also, if you read his post where he says he hit at 140mph and just held on tight, I think he was being sarcastic due to you getting the wrong end of the stick and assuming he'd crashed at 130mph ;).
I think you can stop digging now, you're deep enough...
Cleveland:
Glad someone in here has some common sense!
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