Watch: Man critical after BMW smashes into lane divider in Cape Town

[Grant]

Which is directly proportional to the speed you're travelling at?

no

there is a big difference between blunt trauma and deceleration injury

 

[WaxLyrical]

no

there is a big difference between blunt trauma and deceleration injury

Risk of deceleration injury increases proportionally to original speed.

 

[Grant]

Risk of deceleration injury increases proportionally to original speed.

ok, i'm not going in circles here
by qualification i am a cardiac perfusionist, having spent an extraordinary amount of time staring into open chest cavities in theatre.

what have you to offer ?

 

[WaxLyrical]

ok, i'm not going in circles here
by qualification i am a cardiac perfusionist, having spent an extraordinary amount of time staring into open chest cavities in theatre.

what have you to offer ?

I was involved in a high speed accident.

 

[Dan C]

Can't see if he used his indicators. Oh wait... BMW driver

 

[Grant]

I was involved in a high speed accident.

well that settles that then

 

[The Voice]

For anyone interested to see what it must be like to drive at an insane speed on a public road, check out AutoTopNL on YouTube. Loads of videos of him tearing it up on the Autobahn - the cars he goes past almost look like they're stationary at times. And, of course, when he has to change lanes in fractions of a second because someone ahead of him is driving at a "normal" speed.

 

[daveza]

Sjoe, bunch of sad c,unts on this forum wishing the guy more pain and suffering, remember that when you choke to death on something, people here will say ahh he should have chewed properly.

Screw him. You live by the sword you die by the sword.

Just grateful there wasn't anyone in the incoming lane at the time or they would be dead just because this wanker spent his cash on wheels instead of a penis enlarger.

 

[NarrowBandFtw]

For anyone interested to see what it must be like to drive at an insane speed on a public road, check out AutoTopNL on YouTube. Loads of videos of him tearing it up on the Autobahn - the cars he goes past almost look like they're stationary at times. And, of course, when he has to change lanes in fractions of a second because someone ahead of him is driving at a "normal" speed.

or something like this:

 

[Rickster]

Dont those BM's have active steering where you are doing high speed and the wheels dont become 1:1 with the steering wheel?

 

[Whright]

I was involved in a high speed accident.

In Cape Town, early hours on a Monday morning on a public road with half of newlands wp supporters on a bridge cheering you on, in your bmw with recently purchased retread Dunlop tyres on the rear wheels dicing a super bike, am I right?

 

[WaxLyrical]

In Cape Town, early hours on a Monday morning on a public road with half of newlands wp supporters on a bridge cheering you on, in your bmw with recently purchased retread Dunlop tyres on the rear wheels dicing a super bike, am I right?

Yup.
My legs are killing me.

 

[Whright]

. Just walk it off

 

[Dan C]

A 1991 COTY Delta Motor Corporation Opel Monza 160 GSi would have overtaken that bike with the aircon on.

 

[Gordon_R]

Which is directly proportional to the speed you're travelling at?

Deceleration forces (against a fixed object) are proportional to the square of the speed (which is why they say "speed kills"). A 30km/h impact is pretty harmless ('fender bender'), 60km/h starts to get serious (particularly if not wearing a seat-belt), 120km/h and beyond gets deadly (which is why highways have crash barriers around concrete bridges). This guy was seriously lucky he only "slid" along the barrier and rolled, not hit anything solid.

Formula: a=v^2/2s
Deceleration equals velocity squared divided by twice the distance. The "stopping" distance varies: frontal-impact crumple-zones, side-impact curtain-airbags, etc.

Pedestrians have much less cushioning, so urban areas have much lower speed limits (60km/h down to 20-30km/h in school-zones), since anything beyond that is not survivable.

 

[AfricanTech]

Turns out I know the guy driving the first car.

First hand account from him:

Bike was part of the race and at the time was hitting his limiter at 330km/h

The cars were going about 290km/h at the time of the accident.

BMW driver's wife and father was on the bridge at the time.

No passengers in either of the cars at the time.

So our informal estimates were pretty spot on.

 

[AfricanTech]

A 1991 COTY Delta Motor Corporation Opel Monza 160 GSi would have overtaken that bike with the aircon on.

In reverse...

 

[dutchdog]

Last news this morning on citizen was that 1 leg was amputated and 10 minutes later brain dead.

https://citizen.co.za/news/south-af...ch-drag-racer-loses-leg-after-horrific-crash/

Did the guy pass away now?

 

[SauRoNZA]

yeah, people usually scrounge around for tires before a "race" if they dont find they dont not race, they just chance it with what ever they have. seen it many times.


but i drove past there on the way home, theres a big oil spill at that spot on the left, partly covered with sand. so he other hit that, or something blew in his engine.

If engine popped it wouldn’t have spun out.

Oil is likely the aftermath of the event, not the cause.

 

[dutchdog]

Turns out I know the guy driving the first car.

First hand account from him:

Bike was part of the race and at the time was hitting his limiter at 330km/h

The cars were going about 290km/h at the time of the accident.

BMW driver's wife and father was on the bridge at the time.

No passengers in either of the cars at the time.

That's pretty sad. What car was the other car? No matter how irresponsible I feel bad for his wife and two young kids.