Question

a) What happens to the passengers travelling in a bus when the bus takes a sharp turn? Give reasons for your answer. 

b) Why are road accidents at high speeds very much worse than road accidents at low speeds?

Answer 1

a) When a bus takes a sharp turn, the passengers tend to move sideways as their inertia of moving in a straight line gets disturbed. 

b) Road accidents at high speeds are very much worse than road accidents at low speeds because the momentum of vehicles at high speed is very high compared to the momentum of the vehicle at low speed.