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Originally Posted by anthonyj9h

im so tried of hearing that he was traveling at a high rate of speed, he hit a tree not a car or anything that transfers the kenetic engery but the tree brought all that energy back to the car so 40 mph with about 4100 pounds of force hmmmmmm yeah that alot of force its over 33475 newtons of energy back into the car.....he is right he is lucky to be alive. at 100 mph he would have split the car in half with about 83129 newtons of energy sooo yeah deff not 100....oh a newton is a measure of force to move a mass 1m/s-2....the earth pulls at 9.18 newtons.

Agreed.