Re: wheels come off - speed doubles?

[John Clement <clement@HAL-PC.ORG>]

Where is the statement that the speed doubles?  The only statement about
speed is "On Wednesday, Newton Grove police believe a truck was speeding,
possibly going 55 in a 35-mph zone".  The truck was going almost double the
speed limit, but I neither saw nor heard on the video clip anything about
the dynamics of the situation.  Is it possible that the story has been
changed, or did I miss a link to the speed doubling page?  It seems to be
just a factual report about damage due to a truck losing tires, and the
subsequent recovery of damages.

John M. Clement
Houston, TX
> I think it is bogus as well.
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> > An entertaining story, if nothing else:
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> > http://www.wral.com/news/1465614/detail.html
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> > I'm having a hard time figuring what physical mechanism
> > might make the speed double. I want to say this is bogus,
> > despite the highway patrol (see text and video) obviously
> > taking it as fact... it if was true, there should be an
> > obvious kinetic energy principle behind it, but I see none.
> >
> >
> > Stefan Jeglinski