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Originally Posted by j3pz
well to get any car going that fast, it needs to be light. also, its going about 215, not 130
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Read this 'death' story about a car getting airborne upon hitting a 'dip' in the road.
http://www.honoluluadvertiser.com/ap...0324/1001/NEWS
(another article on same story)...
Investigators said the driver was going at least 75 miles an hour, or three times the posted speed limit. The car went airborne over a dip in the road. It flipped onto its side and slammed into a utility pole. The two girls died at the scene.
another death story...
A sophomore at ..... High School died Friday evening in an automobile accident on Fairfield Road. Driver was traveling west-bound about a mile from Riggs Road, near the Indiana border, when his car went airborne as it came out of a dip in the road, according to Deputy Jim Mueller of the Butler County Sheriff Department's Traffic Investigation Unit. The vehicle landed and driver lost control. After trying to regain control in the right lane, driver overcorrected and ended up on the left side of the roadway where he struck a tree. Mueller said speed was a factor in the accident.
My point is, high speeds and dips in the road can lead to accidents. So know the road before 'testing' the top speed of your car.