Deadly accident of kings: what happens when driving exceeds 200 km / h

The news shook everything he encountered. The death of the Spanish footballer José Antonio Reyes This has an impact on the popularity of the character and because he was only 35 years old.

And the skin bristles knowing that the cause of death was an oversight of the road in a car that apparently traveled more than 200 km / h.

The result of the incident was the death of the Spanish footballer, his cousin Jonathan and the critical condition in which another cousin finds himself who also traveled in the vehicle.

Although experts have not yet been able to determine the reason for the vehicle's loss of control, early versions of the Spanish media pointed out that a tire had been blown when the car driven by Reyes traveled at 237 km / h.

The Spanish newspaper Marca reported that it was one of the most distraction the vehicle collided with the left barrier of the road, which caused the tire to burst and the loss of control of the car, which was crossing two lanes, struck the opposite barrier and caught fire.

Many readings can be made about this incident, but all end up showing that the higher the speed, the greater the probability of losing control of the vehicle.

Reyes' car was built to be able to move at very high speed. It was a model of Mercedes Benz specially prepared by the company Brabus to run at high speeds. It remains to be seen what was the state of the tires.

Apparently Reyes was counting on conductive experience or at least that is presumed by the collection of vehicles of great displacement and great power which it possessed; among them, a Ferrari.

But speed has a decisive influence on the vehicle behavior.

The first thing he does is to change the peripheral vision of the driver. At 40 km / h, the driver is at a 100 ° field of view. But as this field accelerates, it becomes narrower and narrower.

At 65 km / h, it is reduced to 70 °, to 100 km / h, it decreases to 42 °, to 130 km / h, it decreases to 30 ° and from 150 km / h, a cone of visibility is generated from 18 °, generating what is called "Tunnel effect".

When this happens, the driver loses the clarity of peripheral vision and, with that, the ability to correctly evaluate distances and speeds, with a lower level of capture and evaluation in the decision processes of information located in the margin of the field of vision.

In addition, constant high-speed driving generates psychophysical changes that improve tired, increases the chances of distraction and the emotional responses appear stress and aggressiveness in certain subjects.

The level of adhesion of a vehicle depends on many factors but what affects it the most are the changes of trajectory. That's when the steering wheel is turned.

When traveling at high speed, the limits of membership are minimal. Therefore, it is very unlikely that any attempt at maneuver will succeed.

On the other hand braking distances they increase sharply. If at 120 km / h you need 90 meters to stop completely with a modern car, taking into account the reaction time.

If you travel at 240 km / h, this distance quadruplets. You must keep in mind that at 200 km / h 55 meters per second are coveredThe reaction time is decisive so as not to stretch further.

Anyway, an impact at over 200 km / h does not offer any chance of survival. Car structures are becoming more and more effective at blocking energy in the event of a collision, but not for resisting such energy.

In such a case, the structure would collapse completely. In addition, no airbag can avoid damage because the deceleration is such that organs can move and collide with other parts of the body, break tissue or rupture a blood vessel.

The only explanation that there is a survivor of the incident in which Reyes and one of his cousins ​​died is simple because the car did not collide squarely with another obstacle .

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