Question

1. Investigators determined the speed at the time of an accident to be 65 mph and the road

was dry. What would you expect the length of the skid marks to be?

Answer 1

Calculate the skid speed by multiplying the drag factor times the braking efficiency times the skid distance times 30 and taking the square root of the result. For example, if the car skidded 120.5 feet on a road with a drag factor of 0.5 and left four skid marks, the car was going about 42.51 mph.

Explanation:

Answer 2

Solution given:

65mph

divide the speed value by 2.237

65/2.237=29.05m/s

So

speed =29.05 m/s

now we have

.speed =~30 d (0.5)

29.05/30=0.5d

d=0.96855/0.5

d=1.93

So

the length of the skid marks to be is 2 m.