I was talking with some police accident investigators 2 weeks ago (they came to do a presentation to the bike club I belong to).
ABS means skid marks are rarely left (on the road anyway
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he mentioned that a lot of performance or competition cars fit items to add strength and remove flexing (strut braces, plated flitch panels, roll bars, etc) and then add carbon fibre or ABS body panels. This means the original built-in crush zones don't do their jobs any more. All the lightweight panels disintegrate, and the strong structure doesn't deform as intended, meaning the body often suffers greater G's than is good for you.
We asked about being trapped by legs etc. He said this did not happen often with competition cars, however internal injuries were very common due to the above. His comment was, crush your legs and you may live, possibly even keep your legs, but dislocate an organ and you will almost certainly die at the scene...
You don't want to know what he said about bikes
