Originally Posted by xenigo (Post 17906951)

Trust me when I say I'm pretty good with speed estimates.

Originally Posted by marketsmart (Post 17906986)

We should hook up.. I run a small circus down in Tijuana and I have been looking for a guy that was good with speed estimates...

People would pay to throw things at you, like rotten vegetables, bottles, rocks, etc and you would tell them how fast they were traveling..

We would use a radar gun to verify your accuracy and if you were no more than a mile or two per hour off, they would not win a prize..

Let me know ASAP.. This could be very lucrative for the both of us..

Of course I hope you are as good as you say you are...

Originally Posted by xenigo (Post 17906951)

Your reasoning makes no sense, DEA. I think you're implying that since I was over the speed limit at the time I witnessed an accident, it somehow creates a conflict of interest that would nullify the accuracy of my account.

That would be incorrect.

My estimate of speed wasn't based on opinion, it was based on science. If you're both here at one point:

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And then a few seconds later you're here:

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And the other guy is here:

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And you look at your speedometer, and you're already well above the speed limit, that means the other guy is doing probably double your speed.

Now, maybe if my judgement was somehow affected... for instance, if I were drunk or high... then maybe the accuracy claim could be debated. But that's not what we're talking about. Trust me when I say I'm pretty good with speed estimates.

Originally Posted by JP-pornshooter (Post 17907055)

so i am surprised the Prius held up so well.
a woman was killed near my house when a young man (he was killed also), accelerated his MC to around 100mph (on a 35mph residential street) and buried his MC inside her car when she was making a left turn, he simply had too much inertia energy going to even slow down.

Originally Posted by AsianDivaGirlsWebDude (Post 17907385)

Local News Coverage (Source: San Jose Mercury News):



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Originally Posted by xenigo (Post 17907389)

Oh shit, I saw this right after it happened just the other day. I was kinda scratching my head wondering why I've been seeing all these police motorcycle accidents lately...

Originally Posted by AsianDivaGirlsWebDude (Post 17907676)

Yeah, must have been a different crash, because the one in the pix you posted shows a side collision, whereas the one in the article I saw would have more likely caused front bumper damage to the Prius, since the claim in the newspaper was that the police motorcycle was hit from behind.

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Originally Posted by cofojc (Post 17907872)

Doesn't matter what you say because unless your speedometer was calibrated, when you witnessed the officer allegedly gaining distance on your vehicle at the high rate of speed, then it's as if it weren't even there in the eyes of the law.

You're also not trained & certified to provide visual estimations of speed to the court. Part of radar/laser training is visually estimating a vehicle's speed multiple times, within 5mph of their actual speed, in order to be able to testify in court that a vehicle was traveling in excess of the posted speed limit per your visual estimation.