{"id":1259,"date":"2010-11-23T23:36:32","date_gmt":"2010-11-23T23:36:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shaundejager.com\/?p=1259"},"modified":"2010-11-24T01:44:56","modified_gmt":"2010-11-24T01:44:56","slug":"road-myths-physics-of-a-head-on-collision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shaundejager.com\/road-safety\/road-myths-physics-of-a-head-on-collision\/","title":{"rendered":"Road Myths: Physics of a head-on collision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Filed under: <a rel=\"tag\" href=\"http:\/\/autos.aol.ca\/category\/by-the-numbers\/\">By the Numbers<\/a>, <a rel=\"tag\" href=\"http:\/\/autos.aol.ca\/category\/safety\/\">Safety<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shaundejager.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogcdn.com\/autos.aol.ca\/media\/2010\/11\/mythbusters.jpg\" border=\"1\" alt=\"\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" width=\"446\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shaundejager.com\/\"><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shaundejager.com\/\">Shaun de Jager<\/a>, Founder of <a href=\"http:\/\/roadawareness.org\/\">RoadAwareness.org<\/a> speaks out about road safety and road related issues.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> <\/em><!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;  Normal 0   false false false        MicrosoftInternetExplorer4  &lt;![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;   &lt;![endif]--><!--[if !mso]&gt;  &lt;![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 10]&gt;  &lt;![endif]-->The myth is that if two cars travelling at the same speed, say 50km\/hr and collide head-on, the effect and damage is the same as one car colliding with a solid, immovable object at 100km\/hr. I&#8217;ve heard this several times but it makes physics buffs cringe because it&#8217;s false.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"bookmark\" href=\"http:\/\/autos.aol.ca\/2010\/11\/21\/road-myths-physics-of-a-head-on-collision\/\">Continue reading <em>Road Myths: Physics of a head-on collision<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/autos.aol.ca\/2010\/11\/21\/road-myths-physics-of-a-head-on-collision\/\">Road Myths: Physics of a head-on collision<\/a> originally appeared on <a href=\"http:\/\/autos.aol.ca\">AOL Autos Canada<\/a> on Sun, 21 Nov 2010 10:05:00 EST.  Please see our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.weblogsinc.com\/feed-terms\/\">terms for use of feeds<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Permanent link to this entry\" rel=\"bookmark\" href=\"http:\/\/autos.aol.ca\/2010\/11\/21\/road-myths-physics-of-a-head-on-collision\/\">Permalink<\/a> |\u00a0<a title=\"Send this entry to a friend via email\" href=\"http:\/\/autos.aol.ca\/forward\/19727535\/\">Email this<\/a> |\u00a0<a title=\"View reader comments on this entry\" href=\"http:\/\/autos.aol.ca\/2010\/11\/21\/road-myths-physics-of-a-head-on-collision\/#comments\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Filed under: By the Numbers, Safety Shaun de Jager, Founder of RoadAwareness.org speaks out about road safety and road related issues. The myth is that if two cars travelling at the same speed, say 50km\/hr and collide head-on, the effect and damage is the same as one car colliding with a solid, immovable object at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[4,7,5],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pedVzR-kj","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shaundejager.com\/road-safety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1259"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shaundejager.com\/road-safety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shaundejager.com\/road-safety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shaundejager.com\/road-safety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shaundejager.com\/road-safety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1259"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.shaundejager.com\/road-safety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1262,"href":"https:\/\/www.shaundejager.com\/road-safety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1259\/revisions\/1262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shaundejager.com\/road-safety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shaundejager.com\/road-safety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shaundejager.com\/road-safety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}