SPEED VERSUS IMPACT
What you hit – not how fast you hit it –appears to be the main determinant of injuries in motorcycle accidents.
I know that goes against the notion that so many – especially in the law enforcement community! – hold dear. Speed, we’ve been told ad nauseam, kills.
And to be perfectly clear, the laws of physics – namely, that kinetic energy increases with the square of speed – have not been repealed. And, yes, all you armchair physicists thinking of putting pen to paper in
