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Not surprising. SUVs are larger and heavier vehicles so they carry more KE at the same speed. My city has dedicated cycling lanes but they don't cover every place. I sincerely hope they do.



Does KE matter? I suspect that as long as the momentum is large enough that that that hitting the bicycle or pedestrian doesn't cause more than an insignificant change in the car's speed all that matters is speed and the shape of the front of the car.

Consider for example being hit be a large freight train moving at 1 km/hr. The mass, KE, and momentum of the train will be larger than a large car moving at 100 km/hr but being hit by the train probably wouldn't seriously injure you, unless you happened to fall under the train and get run over or fell to the side and happened to hit your head.


Maybe we need cowcatchers on automobiles.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowcatcher




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