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Death plunge vehicle's speedometer 'pinned' at 90 mph, authorities say
Fox News ^ | April 1,2018 | Bradford Betz

Posted on 04/01/2018 4:52:59 AM PDT by Hojczyk

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To: RightField

But..but..but same sex parents are just as qualified to be parents and the kids have no issues, either...! says the Far Left through their propaganda wing, CNN..


61 posted on 04/01/2018 7:45:17 AM PDT by cardinal4 ("Sat stonefaced while the building burned..")
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To: UCANSEE2

Hospital,tablet are the problems


62 posted on 04/01/2018 7:46:00 AM PDT by bert (K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;WAzSP .... The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column)
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To: UCANSEE2

Hospital,tablet are the problems


63 posted on 04/01/2018 7:46:03 AM PDT by bert (K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;WAzSP .... The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column)
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To: UCANSEE2

Hospital,tablet are the problems


64 posted on 04/01/2018 7:46:04 AM PDT by bert (K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;WAzSP .... The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column)
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To: sportutegrl
Maybe they let Toonces drive....


65 posted on 04/01/2018 7:47:50 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Reno89519

It could have also been a case of not being fully alert. Falling asleep at the wheel is a likely possibility if a night crash. A stroke is another possibility. All we know is that the car wasn’t braking when it went off the edge.


66 posted on 04/01/2018 7:49:09 AM PDT by Morpheus2009
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To: DaveA37
Here is a picture of the area they drove off of.


67 posted on 04/01/2018 7:51:15 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: UCANSEE2

Yikes, that is quite a fall.


68 posted on 04/01/2018 7:52:44 AM PDT by Morpheus2009
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To: American in Israel
If the rear wheels had air time they would have spun up giving a false high reading.

It could have been front wheel drive, but the same principle would apply whether it was front or rear wheel drive.

69 posted on 04/01/2018 7:53:05 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: Hojczyk; Nothingburger; Extremely Extreme Extremist; newfreep; bert; The_Republic_Of_Maine; bray; ..
"The two women and three of the children were found dead at the crash site Monday....."

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This story has gotten very little television exposure ..... just maybe because the two "parents" they refer to are two out of their mind lesbians.

70 posted on 04/01/2018 7:54:05 AM PDT by a little elbow grease (Zip ties and duct tape are far more productive than pussy hats and #metoo tweets)
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To: Pearls Before Swine

Back in the 80s and 90s, I was a prosecutor. I handled several cases involving crashes. Back then, when crash investigators talked of the speedometer “pinning,” what they looked at was the small mark the needle on the mechanical speedometer made on the face of the speedometer at impact. If the impact force is sufficient, the needle will make a small mark on the face of the speedometer on impact. I assume that is still the case on mechanical speedometers.


71 posted on 04/01/2018 7:54:24 AM PDT by yukong
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To: Fightin Whitey
The speedometer is pegged therefore the vehicle was going 90.

INCORRECT.

If you have rear wheel drive vehicle, you jack it up in the air, put it in drive and floor it, the speedometer will indicate a HIGH SPEED, but how fast is the vehicle moving ?

If you are stuck in the snow, and you floor it, what does your speedometer indicate , yet you are not moving at all ?

72 posted on 04/01/2018 7:56:15 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: Nothingburger

I read another web page that they also had their pets and chickens with them.


73 posted on 04/01/2018 7:59:56 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: laker_dad

They were driving a 2003 Yukon. GM vehicles since 1996 have an EDR, like an airplanes black box, that records vehicle data for the last seconds before a crash. The police have more information than is being released.


74 posted on 04/01/2018 8:02:20 AM PDT by biggerten (Love you, Mom.)
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To: Pearls Before Swine
Technical question: Do Chevy Suburbans (or whatever they were driving) have mechanical odometers, or LCD based ones. If electronic, or electronically driven, is it possible or likely for them to be pinned at the moment of impact, and if so, is the pinned position indicative of actual speed?

If it was electronic, then the 90mph reading was obtained from the car computer. If not it is possible, but highly unlikely, that the mechanical speedometer was 'pinned' (meaning physically jammed by the crash) at the 90mph reading.

75 posted on 04/01/2018 8:03:31 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: UCANSEE2

If you can’t jump off the Golden Gate Bridge, California will build you a cliff to EXIT from this world! Do they have any other of these Suicide Ramps? /s
Maybe they didn’t have money for BARRIERS, after giving all the money to ILLEGALS! not/s


76 posted on 04/01/2018 8:05:24 AM PDT by GOYAKLA (" Winning not Whining"!)
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To: Malsua

It wasn’t PEGGED at 90mph, it was PINNED at 90mph. The word PINNED means INDICATED SPEED. It was likely taken from the car computer which showed the LAST INDICATED SPEED.


77 posted on 04/01/2018 8:05:32 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: yukong; UCANSEE2

Thank you both for the speedometer pinning info.

UCANSEE2... I didn’t know how much trailing driving data car computers write to non-volatile RAM. That’s a moving target I haven’t kept up on.


78 posted on 04/01/2018 8:08:25 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine ("Married with children.")
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To: depressed in 06
What would terminal velocity be for a SUV flying off a cliff when it hit rocks below?

That would be mostly dependent on the height of the cliff. The standard formula would be 32 feet per second/per second.

The vehicle's SPEED prior to leaving the cliff edge would only determine how far OUT over the cliff it would go.

79 posted on 04/01/2018 8:11:30 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: Hojczyk
If we had an honest press the headline would read:

"Left-Wing White Lesbians Kill 5 Black Children in Murder-Suicide"

80 posted on 04/01/2018 8:12:08 AM PDT by montag813
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