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Re: **Breaking News** - Metrolink Train collides with freight train |
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Posted by Broadway Lion on Sun Sep 14 13:10:45 2008, in response to Re: **Breaking News** - Metrolink Train collides with freight train, posted by Easy on Sun Sep 14 13:04:24 2008. HMM... yes. From the "occupant's" point of view, the occupant is still moving east at say 40 mph, and if he hit an immovable object, then his impact speed and the damage done to him would be the same as hitting a wall at 40 mph.But on the trains, there is still the energy of an equivalent 80 mph impact to be dissipated. Yes, half of the impact would be on one train and half of the impact on the other, assuming trains of equal mass and speed. Still the *ENERGY* is that of an 80 mph impact. ROAR |
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