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Clarence Thomas Bibbins of Milwaukee, who was pronounced dead at the scene, had been T-boned by a motorist driving about 80 mph through an intersection with a stop sign, according to a report from ...
Even when equipped with the safest cars on the road, these casualties occurred at much lower speeds than in head-on collisions, with passenger fatality and serious injury typically occurring at 50 km/h (~31 mph) in side impact collisions, as opposed to 70 km/h (~43 mph) for frontal impacts. [2]
As older vehicle construction regulations allowed a speedometer accuracy of +/- 10%, in the United Kingdom ACPO guidelines recommend a tolerance level of the speed limit "×10% +2 mph" (e.g., a maximum tolerance in a 30 mph (50 km/h) zone of 30 + (30 × 10% = 3) + 2 = 35 mph).
The vehicles came to a rest in front of a home at the southeast corner of the intersection.
Some authorities regard two seconds as inadequate, and recommend a three-second rule. [4] German law requires a minimum 0.9 second distance but when tested under relaxed conditions [5] researchers found that their test subjects spent 41% of the test time at following distances under 0.9 seconds.
Speed humps typically limit vehicle speeds to about 25–30 km/h (15–20 mph) at the hump and 40–50 km/h (25–30 mph) at the midpoint between humps, depending on spacing. Studies show an average 18% reduction in traffic volume and an average 13% reduction in collisions. [17]
However, because the difference between wet and dry is half-a-second at 30 MPH and one second at 60 MPH, and because dividing by two is easier than three, we can use a correctable rule of thumb: t ≈ v 20 + 1 (general rule of thumb) {\displaystyle \color {Sepia}{t\approx {\frac {v}{20}}+1\quad {\text{(general rule of thumb)}}}} (instead add 2 ...
For higher speeds up to about 100 km/h outside built-up areas, a similarly defined 2-second rule applies, which for 100 km/h translates to about 50 m. For speeds on the order of 100 km/h there is also the more or less equivalent rule that the stopping distance be the speed divided by 2 k/h, referred to as halber tacho ( half the speedometer ...