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 fall sideways because of their inertia or their tendency to continue moving in a straight line. 

(b) Road accidents at high speeds are much worse than road accidents at low speeds because the momentum of vehicles at high speeds is very high and causes a lot of damage to the vehicles and injuries to the passengers during collision.