i had a nightmare like this after my best friend dog ginger died, i was shooting up really fast and i saw ginger on each floor, her eyes all bloody and her skin and fur falling off as she got closer and closer and then she turned into my mother and then i woke up. i dont sleep much.
Of course, it's almost impossible to remain calm in a situation like this
But if you do have such good sense, lay yourself down diagonally best you can, put your hands on your head, and pray like you're on a falling plane.
according to >>#16 he lost his ability to walk.. do the physics people on this site happen to know what would happen if he had sat down? like whats the correct thing to do in this situation?
well the best thing to do in any elevator accident it to create as large a surface area as possible with the floor so the impact is spread over as large an area as possible making it more LIKELY to suffer less injury.
but lets face it, if an elevator and its backup systems for safety fail you can pretty much expect crippling injury if the event happened over more than 2 stories.
and on some buildings those elevators can go up to 80 miles an hour, so you can imagine an a thin metal box with no restraints hits an immovable object (the building) at over 60 mph is ganna cause injury. if you were in a car you be ejected out the window like it was ******* GTA
No. Elevators are designed to be as safe as possible with NO liability on the people inside. This situation is a good example of every single safety feature failing at once, which almost never happens. The elevator (looks like its in an apartment building since that guy has groceries) was probably not being maintained properly.
I'm willing to bet the brakes and the counterweight system failed at the same time. The weight shoots to the bottom of the shaft, causing the elevator to shoot up.
**postwhatevs used "*roll picture*"** **postwhatevs rolled image** He shouldve whipped his dick out and try to stick it in and out of every passing gap before the thing crashes.