What,my experiences or the ones of that German cop? Sorry *I* don't have any photos to show you but...remember the picture of the dead jihadi from Boston that's been on the web? Well,*I* have seen people come in after an MVA (motor vehicle accident) that looked 10 times worse than that even before the surgeons went to work (the jihadi was photographed *after* surgical intervention).And as for the cop...he either did,or didn't,patrol the Autobahn.If he did...for any length of time...I have *no* problem believing his story given what *I've* seen result from accidents at 70mph.
And as for bikes...anyone with the most basic understanding of physics can easily imagine what might happen to a rider involved in an accident at 70mph....or even 40mph.
By anecdotal, I meant it was the equivalent of this: One of the women I work with saw a chiropractor, while doing a neck adjustment, “cause” a stroke in her mother.
I still use a chiropractor.
And as for bikes...anyone with the most basic understanding of physics can easily imagine what might happen to a rider involved in an accident at 70mph....or even 40mph.
I’d love to hang glide as well.
BTW, I used to live just next to the old toll booth on I-90 on Mercer Island just before the floating bridge in Seattle. It had reversible lanes and there was a westbound onramp there. During eastbound rush hour the occasional car would enter there and, frustrated with the single slow lane, pull out into the reversible lane and have a medium to serious head-on with another car.
In summer of 1967, I was playing catch with my brother (I was between 6th and 7th grades at the time) and we heard a deafening “thud”. Yeah, there is a crash element, but a high speed head on has more of a “thud” sound. We were only about 100 feet from where the accident happened and climbed the embankment to see the cars. Six teenaged boys and girls were in a baracuda fastback and had floored it as they entered the freeway and immediately pulled out to head on squarely with an oncoming car. We got there less than a minute after the impact.
There were six faces drenched in red just above the dashboard. The window was gone and there was very little car in front of the dashboard. All eyes were closed at least. The didn’t feel a thing. That is a good thing.
It never slowed me down to this day. Life is risk. And to use an old corny line, “a life lived in fear is a life half lived.” Risk vs reward is a personal choice. But it is mature to consider the lives of those that may be impacted if your risk is realized.
It’s why, a few decades ago, my wife’s father refused to hire an airline pilot that bragged about flying a B-52 under the Golden Gate bridge.