Probability of Frontal Airbag Deployment in Vehicle Collisions
Accident reconstruction experts often determine the impact severity of a vehicular collision in their forensic investigations. One common collision severity index is Delta-V (ΔV). The accident reconstructionists at Collision Reconstruction Consulting define Delta-V as the instantaneous change in velocity of an object during a collision event. Airbag deployment thresholds can be a useful metric of […]
Accident Reconstruction and Human Factors in Pedestrian Collisions
Pedestrian collisions occur every day; in fact, a pedestrian is killed every 1.6 hours and injured every 7.5 minutes in traffic crashes. Accident reconstruction experts at Collision Reconstruction Consulting are retained to determine what happened in pedestrian collisions by analyzing the physical evidence, that may include vehicle damage, hair deposited onto a car’s windshield, tire […]
Using Black Box Crash Data to Reconstruct Vehicle Collisions
Today, numerous cars and trucks record large amounts of electronic data that can be tapped into when determining the events leading up to a motor vehicle collision. The accident reconstruction experts at Collision Reconstruction Consulting routinely download and analyze crash-related data from event data recorders. An Event Data Recorder (EDR) is also referred to as […]