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Old August 17, 2010, 05:58 PM   #34
Double Naught Spy
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I appreciate you physicists noting that the guy must be dead...and y'all would know because you are physicists and know about things like energy transfer. However, people do get hit by trucks on the highway and live. The problem is not a simple one and not one you are likely to model very easily. It all has to do with things such as whether or not the person is hit and thrown, hit and goes over, has feet planted or is airborne when hit, and how directly hit.

A paramedic buddy of mine worked a fatality accident where a pickup hit two guys crossing the highway late at night. The guy that died apparently had his feet planted and was hit and driven to the ground violently. The 2nd man survived and was upright and talking to the driver when the paramedics arrived. He actually jumped into the air before being hit, caught the top of the hood and then glanced off the windshield (shattered) and went airborne up several feet above the truck. He had bruises nearly all over, but his head was not hit. His worst wounds were from impacting the pavement. He went to the hospital for Xrays, but had no broken bones.

This lady was hit by a big truck and lived.
http://www.thebostonchannel.com/r/18429840/detail.html

This guy shot himself in the head and then was hit by a truck on a highway and lived...
http://content.usatoday.com/communit...---and-lives/1

Check out these idiots. One got hit twice by vehicles on the highway and survived.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKJ8PVHw4GY

Not a truck, but a clear example of how being hit by a car at highway speeds can result in a less than lethal impact...
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=eff_1204667347
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