->  -> * Crashing at 90kph is equivalent to falling one storey 
->  -> * Crashing at 110kph = falling 5 storeys 
->  -> * Crashing at 125kph = falling 9 storeys 
  
Obviously, the building they have in mind is an unusual one. The first 
storey is very, very high. Maybe the building is on stilts in a 
flood-prone area. 
  
Or maybe they're subtracting some constant amount of energy from the 
crash figures, being the amount that would be absorbed by 
crumple-zones, etc. 
  
Or maybe they actually looked at some corpses of people who died in car 
crashes and in falls from buildings, and made an empirical comparison 
between them. 
  
                            dow 
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