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grrandram asked in Cars & TransportationOther - Cars & Transportation · 1 decade ago

How come people's shoes get knocked off their feet when they get hit by a car?

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  • aliantha2004
    Lv 4
    1 decade ago
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    Its about impact speed and what the body goes through during that impact, It one car is doing 70 mph and the other is doing 50 mph then the impact speed is 120 mph. Shoes are not like other clothing, wrapped around your body. Depending on their type of fastening, shoes will leave the body.

  • Farly the Seer
    Lv 5
    1 decade ago

    The upward force created exceeds the shoes' ability to hold on to the feet.

  • puresplprix
    Lv 4
    1 decade ago

    because they got the sht knocked out of them and the shoes didnt

  • driftking_z
    1 decade ago

    Hahaha.... The last thing i'd worry about is where my shoes went.

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Were they wearing flip flops?

  • 7782264
    1 decade ago

    May be they didn't tie them tight enough.

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