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 155mph 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.

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I've seen that before, still freaks me out seeing it though.

 

That's insane. That's to bad things like that happen.

 

Lost a Good friend outta High school Kinda like that..
He had just picked up his bike from Suzuki of america
It was a 1991 GSX750 He was to git familiar w/ the
bike before he was to join the circuit racing team
of Suzuki..He died on the florida turn pike doin
around 152mph when he hit a small patch of retread
off a semi..The bike disentigrated beneith him, He hit
the rd chin first and snapped his neck and died instantly
His body slid ruffly a 1/4 mile before stoppin....
At least he didn't feel a thing....[]