i was just wondering if a car crash can kill you at 20 mph
please let me know
2007-03-26 08:34:12 · 18 answers · asked by carmania 1 in Cars & Transportation ➔ Safety
Yes, without a doubt.
20 mph doesn't sound a lot, but compare it to normal walking speed. If you've ever backed into a stationary object, even at 5 mph, the jolt is large.
If you're in a modern car with loads of airbags, and wearing your seatbelt, you are unlikely to die in a collision with a stationary object at 20 mph. If you don't wear a seatbelt, your head will continue travelling at 20 mph until it hits something hard.
I find it amazing that anyone would consider travelling in a car without a seatbelt on.
2007-03-26 09:22:36 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes of course it can if you have a head on crash with an other car and it is doing 20 miles an hour that's a combined speed of 40 miles an hour.
2007-03-26 08:48:22 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes if the circumstances are right. The faster you go the more likely you'll get killed. I backed a car into a post once at about 2-3 MPH. I could not believe the jolt.
2007-03-26 08:39:29 · answer #3 · answered by tjc 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
i grew to become into certainly thinking the survival fee of hitting 2 timber with out a seat belt at 70 mph because of the fact i grew to become into presently in a twist of fate and did not goto the medical institution and could want to appreciate what the survival fee of a crash like that's me and my buddy the two survived this is been some week i'm hurting a sprint yet not undesirable adequate to be afflicted me have a bruised abdomen and that's a sprint swollen below my ribs different than that purely some bruises
2016-11-23 17:18:28 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you are lying down in the road and a car runs over you at 20 mph, then - without a doubt, yes.
2007-03-26 08:42:21 · answer #5 · answered by Michael L 1 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I don't have any figures to back this up but I would think it could, you never know about things. A jerk in a certain way can snap your neck, your head could be jammed into some sharp object in the car. Too many variables to figure, but yeah, I'm sure it COULD happen.
2007-03-26 08:39:02 · answer #6 · answered by Fordman 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes you can be killed at that speed. If you are sitting in your car and are not moving and another car collides into you, that too can kill you. So the speed and object you are in becomes irrelevant really.
2007-03-28 00:55:11 · answer #7 · answered by Jenna 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well if its head on with another car traveling at the same speed thats 40mph combined. And that can kill a person.
2007-03-26 08:37:45 · answer #8 · answered by Christian T 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Of course it can. You could get a metal spike through your head at walking speed and that would kill you.
Hitting a solid object head-on at 20mph would probably squash you like a fly being hit by a newspaper.
Would recommend that you don't try it to see.
2007-03-26 09:04:38 · answer #9 · answered by Pit Bull 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes.
Its not the speed that kills, but the deceleration, which depends on the mass, the speed prior to impact, the mass of what you hit, and the speed prior to impact of what you hit, as well as the energy absorption characteristics of your car and whatever you hit.
You also have to take account of any secondary impacts, and of whether or not you are correctly seated and restrained (i.e. belted).
2007-03-27 04:08:37 · answer #10 · answered by Neil 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋