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Originally Posted by NJSPEEDER
i feel bad for their families and friends, but i have to wonder how fast they were going.
inexperience and weather aside, that car is folded nearly in half around that tree. that takes a good bit more than 50mph to do.
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you'd be surprised what momentum can do, regardless of speed. if the road and/or other surface is slippery enough, it won't provide any friction for the car to slow down. sideways at 50 mph - yeah, it could do that much damage - and more.
quoted from the article: "They had big plans," he said. "They had lots of friends."
but they never planned on getting into a wreck...