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A friend suggested I conduct the following experiment as an apt "scaled analogy": Buy two 1.65-lb. tomatoes that are as similar in firmness as possible. Then (somehow) borrow a small car that weighs 2,000-lbs. Drive the 2000-lb. car at 10mph into the first 1.65-lb. tomato that's been suspended...

Going with your 5:1 estimate of effective force, about how heavy would the linebacker have to be if he impacted the pedestrian at, say, 25 mph?

Hi, Here's a true scenario: A 50 year-old female of average height and weighing 160-lbs. steps off a curb and is hit square-on by a 20,000-lb. bus going a steady 10-mph. The bus impacts the woman at 10-mph, then stops. The woman is first knocked up into the windshield of the bus, then...