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In a motor vehicle collision where the parties dispute liability, they usually are disputing the time, speed and distance of the vehicles.\u00a0 So you need to be able to calculate how far a vehicle will travel in a second at any given speed.<\/p>\n

As any accident reconstruction textbook will underscore, people usually overestimate the time it takes for a car accident to unfold. In one study, participants who viewed a thirty-second event estimated an average duration of 150 seconds, 500% longer than it actually took.<\/p>\n

You can also figure this out by just asking someone to estimate how many feet a vehicle travels in one second while driving 65 mph.\u00a0 The range of responses is laughable, and this is what lawyers get from fact witnesses.<\/p>\n

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In a motor vehicle collision where the parties dispute liability, they usually are disputing the time, speed and distance of the vehicles.\u00a0 So you need to be able to calculate how far a vehicle will travel in a second at any given speed. As any accident reconstruction textbook will underscore, people usually overestimate the time […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":3033,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3034","page","type-page","status-publish"],"yoast_head":"\nTime, Speed and Distance | How Fast Per Second Chart<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Chart to calculate speed per second that lawyers use in car accident cases. 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