This is wildly untrue--to a greater extent than one might expect. If you're a pedestrian and are hit by a car at an impact speed of 40mph, you have a roughly 50

This is wildly untrue--to a greater extent than one might expect. If you're a pedestrian and are hit by a car at an impact speed of 40mph, you have a roughly 50% chance of dying. The odds of death if you're hit at 25mph are roughly 12%.[0] That's in addition to the fact that slower cars are much less likely to hit you at all, because they have more time to brake and maneuver before impact. [0] https://www.aaafoundation.org/sites/default/files/2011PedestrianRiskVsSpeed.pdf https://www.aaafoundation.org/sites/default/files/2011Pedest...