[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

What I want to know...... how do you survive a crash on a public road at 160+ miles per hour?

He did have a cut lip...

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Maybe this is the answer.

[Pro-Bush]

Don't drunk people usually survive car crashes?

[spetznaz]

You can thank the amazing build structure of current supercars. Those things will take amazing damage in a crash, but the 'cockpit' (and in many ways it is one) will be largely untouched. The way modern sportscars, especially the supercars, are built is really amazing. A Bugatti could probably protect its driver at 190mph better than a Corvette could at 90, then again you are paying over 1.1 million dollars more for the Bugatti Veyron than you would for the 2006 C6 Corvette. The makers of such cars have a vested interest in keeping their clients whole and hearty.

[RunningWolf]

I know someone that survived a crash on a public road at 170 mph and it was on a motorcycle, the Suzuki Hayabusa. This was the summer of 2004.

I saw him at the hospital about 30 hours after it happened. He was in a coma and it looked like he would not make it. Then it looked like he would be brain damaged forever, he could not remember anything for more than 30 seconds. But after a few weeks he started coming around.

I went and saw the crash site. He had failed to negotiate a uphill turn at that speed and left the road, his crash path paralleled an exit lane leading up to a T stop. The length of the crash path was 270ft/approx> It was all in grass etc., although the first part of the path went thru the carved ravine off the freeway shoulder.

You could see where the front wheel exploded and the forks gouged in, then about every 35 ft or so the turf would be torn up where the tumbling bike impacted, ending finally with one long gouge.

Fortunately no one else was hurt.

What was left of the machine looked like a crumpled up soda can.

W.

[Tunehead54]

Sometimes I wonder why I bother ... ;-)

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From the link:

Chassis

The chassis was built entirely of carbon fibre and aluminium honeycomb sandwich panels, which made it possible to meet demands for outstanding rigidity, lightness and safety.

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As noted its an interesting link. ;-)

[B4Ranch]

Have you ever seen some of the NASCAR crashes on TV? They are real scary at 180 or 190 mph.

[Tunehead54]

My apologies. I see you did follow my link. A thousand pardons?

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