Seven-Tenths Of A Second

Does your job location hand out those little safety pamphlets? Well mine does like back when it was getting pretty cold out they gave us one on how to dress warmly in the winter and be prepared. Also some tips on driving. Now that it has been raining a lot they gave us a pamphlet for that too. Normally I just kind of shrug them off to the side and don’t even bother with them. I didn’t even glace at this one. Then one of the guards pointed something out to me that was in it he found it kind of shocking, I found it amusing that they put it into a safety pamphlet. It’s like they are trying to scare the holy crap out of us. Anyways I thought I’d share. This is straight from the pamphlet.

Seven-Tenths Of A Second
Look at your watch and see how long one second is. If you have a stopwatch, try to stop the stopwatch at seven-tenths of a second. Now that you have an idea of how fast that is, consider what happens in the first seven-tenths of a second when an automobile is traveling 55mph hits a solid object and the driver is not wearing his or her seat belt.
• In the first-tenth of a second, the front bumper and grill collapse.
• In the second-tenth of a second, the hood crumples raises and strikes the windshield while the rear wheels are lifted from the ground, still spinning at 55mph. Simultaneously, the fenders begin wrapping themselves around the object that was just struck by the car. The frame of the car has stopped moving, but the rest of the car is still traveling 55mph. The driver instinctively stiffens his legs against the crash and they snap at the knee joint.
• During the third-tenth of a second, the steering wheel starts to disintegrate in the driver’s hands and the steering column is aimed at the driver’s chest.
• The forth-tenth of a second finds the first two feet of the car’s front end wrecked, with the rear moving at 35mph, but the driver’s body still traveling at 55mph.
• In the fifth-tenth of a second (a “split second”), the driver is impaled on the steering column and his lugs begin to fill with blood.
• In the sixth-tenth of a second, the driver’s feet are ripped out of his shoes, the brake pedal snaps off and the car frame buckles in the middle. The driver’s head smashes into the windshield as the rear wheels fall back to earth.
• In the seven-tenth of a second, doors fly open, hinges rip loose and the seats break free, striking the driver from behind. The driver does not feel the seat striking him, because he is already dead!

Next thing you know we’ll have guards calling off cause it is raining.