Local accident deemed a street racing manslaughter.

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I'm "friends" with the murderer's sister on Facebook. She keeps posting (and later deleting) how unfair it is to keep seeing this headline pop up and how he's a good kid.
pfffttt, they are always a "good kid". Good enough to commit capital crimes? Right...
 

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If people want to race then either do it on a race track or drive to some country road or whatever that has light traffic and very little if any intersections.

It's not rocket science.
 

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That is so true. Back in 2009 a local cop was returned from a call and was speeding at around 1AM on a 4-lane road. Initial it was reported he was doing well over 100 mph. The two 18 year olds made a turn from Rt. 1 onto a side street and were broadsided. It was believed that the driver couldn't properly judge the distance of the approaching cop (no siren or flashing lights). Both the driver and his girlfriend were killed instantly. The cop was eventually charged with manslaughter.

Yup, locally a friend of a friend's GF made a turn in a 45 zone that's out in the country, and someone was on a bike and an ungodly speed, and t-boned her so hard the car was easily totaled, and his pieces were spread over a large range. I heard no charges were pressed against her because due to his splatter range, and the damage to the car, they know he was doing probably close to triple the speed limit
 

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Yup, locally a friend of a friend's GF made a turn in a 45 zone that's out in the country, and someone was on a bike and an ungodly speed, and t-boned her so hard the car was easily totaled, and his pieces were spread over a large range. I heard no charges were pressed against her because due to his splatter range, and the damage to the car, they know he was doing probably close to triple the speed limit

A kid (early 20s) that worked for us went out the same way, from what I gather hauling ass around 3am. A truck made a left turn in front of him, bike exploded and he went out in a ball of flames. They had to ID him by the metal plate in his arm from a previous accident.
 

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Humans are inherently bad at judging the speed of an object moving toward or away from them.

We typically can only judge speed with fair accuracy when the object is moving across our vision (think left to right and vice versa).

The reason is that our brains need a reference point to judge the speed of the object and since the perspective of an object moving toward or away from us doesn't grant a good reference, we can't predict the speed of that object with any sort of accuracy.

Remember that when looking in your mirror or checking oncoming traffic when making a turn. Although that vehicle you see looks like it isn't going that fast, it can be going much faster than you perceive.
 

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A kid (early 20s) that worked for us went out the same way, from what I gather hauling ass around 3am. A truck made a left turn in front of him, bike exploded and he went out in a ball of flames. They had to ID him by the metal plate in his arm from a previous accident.

In the treasure coast a month or so ago both the car driver and the bike rider died after the bike(cruiser I believe) t-boned the car. Happened in broad daylight too.
Never found any more info about rate of speed or what, but it was strong enough to even kill the person in the car.
 

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Humans are inherently bad at judging the speed of an object moving toward or away from them.

We typically can only judge speed with fair accuracy when the object is moving across our vision (think left to right and vice versa).

The reason is that our brains need a reference point to judge the speed of the object and since the perspective of an object moving toward or away from us doesn't grant a good reference, we can't predict the speed of that object with any sort of accuracy.

Remember that when looking in your mirror or checking oncoming traffic when making a turn. Although that vehicle you see looks like it isn't going that fast, it can be going much faster than you perceive.

Agree completely. What's funny is a cop can write you a ticket, defendable in court, by estimating your speed visually (regardless if he is head-on to your direction or not).
 

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I'm "friends" with the murderer's sister on Facebook. She keeps posting (and later deleting) how unfair it is to keep seeing this headline pop up and how he's a good kid.

Well, accidents do happen. And kids (think early 20's, teens) tend to make bad decisions. Some severe, some not so severe. He can still be a good kid who just made poor choices. But that won't excuse the fact he took two lives.

If this was truly a good kid, jail time will be a breeze compared to the haunting self loathing he will feel for the rest of his life.
 

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