Me too. I still can’t fathom 18 people ALL being killed. It wasn’t torn in half. It didn’t burn. It was going fast, but not THAT fast. Very sad.
But remember no one inside was wearing seatbelts
Those modified stretch limos look so unsafe. How well do the brakes work? How can you maneuver them? Plus, as pointed out above the seats are along the sides, meaning the seat belts don’t protect in a front end collision.
60mph to 0 in a dead stop. Passengers unrestrained. If tires can separate from wheel hub with 5-8 hardened steel bolts, imagine what that might do to a neck. Tragic.
Fling your body at 30 miles per hour into a brick wall.. or To put it in a better perspective... 30 MPH is the speed you are going when you hit the ground if you jumped off a 6 story building....
How many people do you think survive falling 60 feet?
at 40 MPH you are closing in on a 10 story fall.
If that car hit something and came to a dead stop, everyone in the passenger compartment unbuckled is basically doing the exact same thing as that...
Probably all got broken necks from rapid deceleration and violent jostling around inside. Not much good news comes out of Cuomo York.