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by thfuran 876 days ago
The closing speed between you and the swerver is almost certainly positively correlated with collision rate. Given that the base rate of even seeing someone swerve into opposing traffic is so low, I'd expect that effect to dominate. Even if not, severity of injury definitely strongly positively correlates with collision speed.
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and also assumes reaction time speeds up proportionally with speed. it's the opposite