Summary
If T M Capron were to think intelligently about which vehicles are most likely to kill on the roads, he would come to the same conclusion that I have ("Car owners should think of others", Open Lines, July 26).
Using crash investigators' own calculations, the damage a moving vehicle can do is proportional to its momentum, which is equal to mass times speed. This means it's impossible for any one-ton sports car to be as dangerous as a relatively small 10-ton truck doing 30mph, because there are no cars that can do 300mph.See the full content of this document
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Damage Is Equal to the Momentum
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