Through a fluke of physics, the water also lifted the car from above Dianne and tossed her up, alongside her husband.

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It may well be that using Newtonian physics mis-states the speed of a crashing car by some fraction of an inch per hour.

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Perhaps you could put on demonstrations for the local high-school physics club, using the g-meter built into the car's instrument cluster to show exactly what more than 1 g of lateral acceleration feels like.

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