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Vehicles with Texas plates drag racing on West Main Street

By Howard B. Owens

Law enforcement is being dispatched to West Main Street, Batavia, in the area of Dave's Ice Cream, to check out a report of cars with Texas plates drag racing, reaching speeds in excess of 100 mph.

Ed Hartgrove

So - Why didn't the people that reported cars, reaching speeds in excess of 100mph, just stop and ticket them.

Afterall, no 'civilians' that I know have radar or laser speed detectors, so, if someone know how fast they were going, they would most likely be LEO's.

Oct 31, 2015, 11:35pm Permalink
Raymond Richardson

"After all, no 'civilians' that I know have radar or laser speed detectors,"

True; however, you don't need to be a rocket scientist to calculate the speed of a moving vehicle.

Speed=Distance/Time

Nov 1, 2015, 7:32am Permalink
Kyle Couchman

Where are our numerous deer or bear or raccoons when people to things such as this. I'd imagine hitting a deer at upwards of 90mph would end this activity in a BIG hurry.

Nov 1, 2015, 8:02am Permalink
Douglas Goodwin

Ed, i do have a radar gun and im just a "civillian". They arent anything fancy or somethin that you cant buy as a civillian. Kyle, actually the faster your going when you hit a deer the less damage its guna do to the vehicle. Youll blast rite threw the deer. Thats why if im drivin and i know i cant stop to avoid it, i floor it, blow right threw it. Look at it this way, if your ridin a atv just puttin along slow and you bump into a sapling, itll stop the atv, maybe crack the body or somethin, hit that same sapling on the same atv doin 25-30mph and youll break it rite down and go rite over it

Nov 1, 2015, 11:13am Permalink
Kyle Couchman

Douglas I'm sorry but the laws of physics dictate that the faster you go, the more damage you'll have and the easier it'll be to lose control. I'm just not buying the speed myth you put out there. Unless you are driving a commercial rig you aren't just gonna blow thru a deer.

The faster you are going the more damage will be incurred AND the more likely you will lose control. For every half you reduce your speed by, the collision energy is quartered i.e. energy of a 100mph collision is 4 times that of a 50mph collision. The energy of a 100mph collision is twice that of a 70mph collision. For every half you reduce your speed by, your reaction time and ability to avoid further loss of control is doubled. There is no such thing as "barreling through an impact". More damage is more damage. Under ALL circumstances, it is better to reduce the speed as much as possible i.e. brake to slow as fast as possible while being safe. Finally, the best possible outcome is NO collision AT ALL. Braking makes this more likely; accelerating makes it less likely. So you would be accelerating yourself INTO a potentially fatal situation.

Reference https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/question-about-hitting-a-deer.523…

Nov 1, 2015, 7:25pm Permalink
Raymond Richardson

"...the faster your going when you hit a deer the less damage its guna do to the vehicle. Youll blast rite threw the deer."

Poppycock!

Nov 2, 2015, 7:44am Permalink
Tim Miller

MythBusters did an episode where they tested whether it caused less damage when hitting a moose to speed up, stay steady, or slow down. Slowing down caused much less damage. Of course, they tested on moose-like inanimate objects, but they were still big and heavy objects.

As stated by others - slower speed means less energy means less damage.

Nov 3, 2015, 2:45pm Permalink

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