1.0 second | The brakes are locked. You are rigid with fright. No way out. |
0.9 second | White knuckles grasp the steering wheel. |
0.8 second | Only 300 cm to the tree. |
0.7 second | The bumper and the radiator grille are crushed. |
0.6 second | At 80 km/h your body flies forward against the belts. Your effective weight is more than 3 tonnes and
20 g will lift you from your seat. Your legs break at the knee. |
0.5 second | Your broken knees press against the dashboard. The cover and the steel frame of the steering wheel bend
under your hands. |
0.4 second | The front 600 mm of the car totally destroyed. Your body continues forward at 80 km/h. The engine,
weighing almost half a tonne, crashed into the impediment. |
0.3 second | You Hands, rigid in fear, bend the steering wheel almost vertical. The wristss and forearms break. The
steering column drills into your breast. Splinters of steel rip holes in your lung, shredding the inner arteries and
filling the lungs with blood. |
0.2 second | Your shoes are torn from your feet. The brake pedal snaps. The bodyshell folds in the middle. Bolts snap,
srews break off. Your head hits in the windscreen. You have no time to scream. |
0.1 second | The car is bending. The seats leaving their mountings, fly forward and press your body mercilessly into
the shredded steering wheel. Blood gushes from your mouth. Shock stops your heart. You are dead ! |