GARY E. KILPATRICK AND ASSOCIATES, PA
FORENSIC ENGINEERS
Accident Reconstruction and Product Liability Analysis
TRAFFIC ACCIDENT RECONSTRUCTION
We have many years of experience in the practice of the Traffic Accident Reconstruction sciences. We provide detailed information pertaining to the characteristics of a collision between one or more vehicles, human bodies and/or stationary objects. Historically, one of the first traffic accident cases to be tried in the United States court system was the case Becker vs. West Side Dye Works (172wis.1). This traffic accident took place in Milwaukee Wisconsin on February 20th, 1919. It involved a pedestrian who had stepped out of a street car and attempted to cross the street and was struck by a motor vehicle that was owned and operated by the defendant. After the accident, the plaintiff filed suit. During the trial, the court admitted evidence obtained from witness testimony. To read a synopsis on the procedure of a traffic accident reconstruction, click on this link Traffic Accident Reconstruction. To read a synopsis on the phyics of a collision, click on this link Physics of a Collision.
The study of Human Factors has became a significant part of modern day traffic accident reconstruction. The science itself didn't become an organized area of research until the early 1940's during the beginning of World War II where human factor studies were heavily reseached by the United States military. Since then, human factors research has been brought into the traffic accident reconstruction sciences to research how human beings see, respond to and react during the beginning phases of an impending vehicle collision and throughout the elapsed time of the entire accident. Driver human factor sciences covers the study of light and its measurement, human vision and information processing, human cognitive loading, driver perception and reaction time, driver eye movement and visual attention, judgment of speed and distance, visibility during night time driving, vehicle visibility and conspicuity, age and its effects on drivers, alcohol consumption and its effects on drivers and light sources other than vehicle lamps.
We provide the following forensic engineering traffic accident reconstruction services: (Please click on the underlined links for more information)
Cars, Pickup Trucks, Buses, Articulating Vehicles, Motorcycles:
• Preimpact and Postimpact Velocities
• Engineering Dynamics Corporation HVE Vehicle Accident Reconstruction Dynamics and Simulation.
• Vehicle Vector Trajectory
• Cause Analysis
• Lamp Analysis
• Tire Examination
• Steering and Braking System Analysis
• Human Factors
• Driver Visibility Analysis
• Bosch Crash Data Retrieval System Download and Analysis of a vehicle's Crash Data Report from a vehicle's Airbag Control Module (ACM) and Event Data Recorder (EDR)
• Airbag Deployment Analysis
• Seat Belt Function Analysis
• Accident Scene Photogrammetry with iwitness
• 3-D Laser Scanning of the Accident Scene
• Vehicle Inspections For Defects and Non-Conformance
• Defective Vehicle Component Determination
• Vehicle Diagnostic Trouble Code (DTC) Download and Interpretation
• Catastrophic Component Failure Determination
• Vehilcle Standard of Care and Maintenance Evaluation
• Metallurgical and Failure Mode Analysis
• Manufacturing Process Defects and Failures