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Speed estimate from side swipe impact

Mark O. Winter ([email protected])
Fri, 18 Dec 1998 15:04:48 -0500 (EST)

Does any one have or has anyone heard of a formula to estimate the
speed of the bullet vehicle in a side swipe type of collision?

Another person professes to have such a formula but I have never heard of
such an animal, nor seen any confirmation of such a formula.

Mark O. Winter
[email protected]


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