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Because at normal driving speed, everything in the car is moving at the same velocity. When you hit the brakes, only the car is decelerating. Everything else that is not attached to the car, either by seat belt (such as your body) or other restraining device is still moving at the initial velocity as the car previously was. Thus, the purse flies forward, because its velocity is greater than the car's new velocity.

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