If a car, driven by an unrestrained male, strikes a utility pole at 35 mph, which of the following is true?

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When a car strikes a stationary object like a utility pole, the car rapidly decelerates while the unrestrained occupants continue to move forward at the speed they were traveling before the impact. In this case, the car was moving at 35 mph when it struck the pole, so the unrestrained male driver would have continued traveling forward at that same speed until his body was stopped by the steering wheel or dashboard. Therefore, the internal organs would have struck the inside of the body at 35 mph, which can cause serious internal injuries. Choices A, C, and D are not true because they are based on incorrect assumptions or incomplete information about the physics of the collision.

If a Car, Driven by an Unrestrained Male, Strikes a Utility