What speed should a train have to kill me?

[drakewantstogo]

if your standing up forwards is it not going to kill you immediately upon impact,

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[Cody111]

I sometimes find it difficult think a vehicle moving at speeds of say 50kmph can cause enough impact damage to kill someone.

But then i think if someone was to swing a baseball bat at 50kmph at your head...
or if you fall and knock your head on say a table on the way down...
Kinda puts it into perspective for me.

Basically what youre after is the faster the better.

 

[vfghjkjhilkj]

I sometimes find it difficult think a vehicle moving at speeds of say 50kmph can cause enough impact damage to kill someone.

But then i think if someone was to swing a baseball bat at 50kmph at your head...
or if you fall and knock your head on say a table on the way down...
Kinda puts it into perspective for me.

Basically what youre after is the faster the better.

exactly. people think a high speed train won't knock them out immediately. but just realise that a much less powerful (& less fast) punch to the head can knock a big man out instantly. So really a much heavier, much faster, much larger train, will knock one out instantly. with ease.

 

[Arak]

Surprisingly utube has this. The train missed every vital part so he can still move everything above the injury. Blood loss is often minimal with train cuts. The multiple wheels running over seem to crimp the severed parts shut again.

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Horrible. Is this something related to the railway system or the trains in India ? I think I've seen a vid of someone in India who was run over by a train and survived unscathed !

The more local sources suggest it is always lethal.

One more comment about the speed of a train, the person standing in front of the train standing and getting killed by the impact: I guess they get flies on their windshield every day, but human beings are not flies ! It would be very nice to get some feedback of a 'resident scientist' about the physics of this and the method of falling. Opinions are all over the place, and while you'l likely get killed you don't want to survive in a horrible way. It's always easy to get killed by accident.

 

[Cody111]

I think ideally you want to get hit and fall under the train increasing and prolonging the number of interactions you have.

Im no acientist.. but logic in my mind tells me a car hitting you would be better (depending on desired outcome) than a car running over you.

I remember seeing a video of a train pulling into a station in japan and someone jumping from the platform infront of it. There was still enough speed to smash or atleast badly crack the window of the train. If this alone is enough blunt force to cause death im unsure. But if he then fell onto the tracks and not pushed past the train i can see it being a faily sure way to go.