20 July (Part 1) - The Abbey Road crash
I
showed the crash photos to the former EU Vehicle Safety Committee Chairman and
asked his opinion on the 100 m.p.h. impact claim. In 1997 he correctly estimated
from photographs the Princess Diana crash speed as a little over 60 m.p.h. when the newspapers were suggesting twice as fast.
His response…
“hitting a brick wall at 100 m.p.h. will always result in mincemeat.” Both
occupants got away with it quite lightly. They were doing more than 30 m.p.h. but nowhere near 100.
There are no obvious skid marks on the road, only some paint marks which indicate the car’s likely trajectory.
The Abbey Road accident page has been updated.
I thought the newspaper report of an end of terrace house being worth £500,000
just as unbelievable as the speed estimate. My own on the same development is in estate agent’s terms
better than that and I had no idea it was worth that much. Rachel bloody Reeves
will be rubbing her sticky paws with glee.