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    This probably would have happened to a corvette too.

    The Honda rider was traveling at such a "very high speed", his reaction time was not sufficient enough to avoid this accident. Swedish Police estimate a speed of ~250 KM/h (155 mph) before the bike hit the slow moving car side-on at an intersection. At that speed, they predicted that the rider's reaction time (once the vehicle came into view) wasn't sufficient enough for him to even apply the brakes. The car had two passengers and the bike rider was found INSIDE the car with them. The Volkswagen actually flipped over from the force of impact and landed 10 feet from where the collision took place.

    All three involved (two in car and rider) were killed instantly. This graphic demonstration was placed at the Stockholm Motorcycle Fair by the Swedish Police and Road Safety Department. The sign above the display also noted that the rider had only recently obtained his license.

    At 250 KM (155 mph) the operator is traveling at 227 feet per second. With normal reaction time to SEE-DECIDE-REACT of 1.6 seconds the above operator would have traveled over 363 feet while making a decision on what actions to take. In this incident the Swedish police indicate that no actions were taken.

    They didn't even have time to say, "Oh, ****!"
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    I hope you don't mind but I'm going to go through and cull out all the email addresses from your post. There are search engines which spammers use to find active links on web pages and the last thing anyone needs is more spam.

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    ps: DONE! Now... did you have a picture to post or ???

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    Yes, but now I can't find it. The cycle was inside the car and occupied the entire front seat.

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    Wow!

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    Quote Originally Posted by jrose7004 View Post
    Wow!
    I'll second that...

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    Quote Originally Posted by KOPBET View Post
    Sir, thank you sir.
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