Retired crash investigator Peter Bellion. “For a sudden stop of about 40km/h that can result in about a 50 per cent fatality rate, and by the time that gets up to 50km/h, 85 per cent would be a fatal outcome.” “Effectively if you look at vulnerability of human impact tolerance, a sudden stop at 30km/h for a human being unrestrained will result in about 15 per cent fatality rate,” he said. He said such accidents highlighted how fragile human beings were. But then you also have the fact that anybody that’s on the driver side unrestrained, they could also fall to the passenger side and end up with some pretty bad if not fatal injuries.” “Obviously the passenger side is coming into contact with the road surface and also the guard railing, they’re sources of contact for anybody inside the vehicle. “It’s a typical heavy vehicle rollover where a heavy vehicle has gone into some sort of turn too fast, it’ll tip over the outside lip,” said Mr Bellion, 58, who retired from Victoria Police in 2016 after suffering post-traumatic stress disorder from seeing more than 2000 fatalities during his 30-year career.
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