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Does this make sense?

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See this:
http://www.cmsnl.com/news/what-a-155-mph-motorcycle-crash-looks-like_news176.html

I'm not an expert in forensics, but that bike just doesn't look smashed up enough to have been going 155 mph. I would expect that it would have been wadded into a ball. I got an email from a friend in which the text claimed that the bike was going 85 mph - maybe closer to the truth.
Does anyone know any more about this/any comments? It's a sad situation, but I wonder how accurate the story is. I believe that things like this are sometimes "embellished" to make a point.
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Holy crap... I don't know, but that motorcycle was inside the car. I mean it was really inside the car and trying to come out the other side.


It seems to me that with most accidents, things tend to bounce off each other. There had to be a lot of energy for that kind of pentration.

It also seems to me that with the shock factor intention of this display, if they wanted to exaggerate, they would have said a lower speed instead of a higher speed. Think about it this way: That kind of damage at 155 mph... OMG that driver was absolutly insane, look what he caused.On the other hand: That kind of damage at 85 mph... OMG motorcycles are just missles they are too dangerous to be on the same roads as cars and should be banned altogether.
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NevadaDave wrote:
What frustrates me the most about this is that things such as this are too common.

Amen brother.
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