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Originally Posted by Bengt
This article has someone landing at 75-80 mph on to a rock surface.
https://sjtrem.biomedcentral.com/art...757-7241-19-63
There are a lot of fractures, but the bones are not shattered (there are x-rays in the article). That an extra 20-25 mph should turn an impact from survivable to the person being mush seems unlikely. Sure the survival in this case is exceptional, but there is quite a lot of difference between being dead and the remains not being recognisably human. |
Yeah. That is not normal at all - hence the extensive writeup in a medical journal.
A fall from 300 feet will normally turn someone to pulp, since they'll probably be going much faster than 80 mph when they land (i.e. no intermediate impact to slow the fall, as with this lady). I think she ended up rolling 8d for damage and got well under the average.
A normal HP 10 person getting hit by a 100 mph Mack truck is going to take 10d crushing damage according to RAW (collision with a "hard" object - unless you want to call it a Slam by the truck, in which case the damage will be much higher). That's going to be an average of 35 damage - not enough to go to -10xHP. And yet, in real life, that kind of collision would cause enough damage to pretty completely destroy the body. Would there be a corpse left to resurrect? Possibly. In real life, however, getting hit by a Mack truck at 100 mph is almost certain to obliterate a human body.
You can also find internet reports - far more common than reports of people surviving 200 foot falls - of truckers hitting deer in the road at moderate highway speeds - and how it completely obliterates their bodies.