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#178
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03-14-2017, 06:31 PM
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Re: motorcycle crash at 174 mph
It looks like the rider hit the same thing the bike did. The bike, being fairly solid, loses a lot of it's speed in the initial impact but a human body, being quite elastic/squishy tends to bounce around quite a lot. The initial impact, probably with a tree looking at the picture of the bike, at 174mph has plenty enough force to tear the body apart very thoroughly but it would still be basically together due to the leathers the rider was wearing, but as the body has bounced around and slid before coming to rest, various separated parts will have been fired off in different directions. Often in a high-speed bike crash the head will be separated from the body too as the head and the helmet are pretty heavy, if whatever the bike hits is low enough to allow the head to continue relatively unimpeded. At that speed the rider probably didn't even have time to register that he was heading for whatever he hit before he hit it...
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