There are currently no scheduled seminars
Text: Motor Vehicle Accident Reconstruction and Cause Analysis, 7th Ed., LexisNexis;
Software: MARC1 – 2019; Book either in paper or e-version; MARC1 software (no charge)
Book and Software free to law enforcement participant
$500 to non-law enforcement
Overall Seminar Teaching Objectives
- Understand and apply fundamentals of accident reconstruction
- Identify and properly document critical accident scene and vehicle data
- Identify common and unique elements in crashes
- Understand energy balance and impulse in impact speed calculations
- Crush energy: Analysis of vehicle crash test data and their use in crash reconstruction
- In-line crash reconstruction: Head-on, rear-end and side swipe accident
- Intersection two-vehicle crashes with linear momentum
- Combined linear and rotational momentum
- Accident causation and avoidance analysis
- Velocity diagram: Motion analysis made simple
- Driver response: Reaction time and difference between real and ideal test drivers
- Fundamentals of slide-out and rollover accident reconstruction
- Hands-on training in reconstructing actual vehicle crashes
The unique and extremely user-friendly MARC1 software is a companion tool to the Text and will make the reconstruction of more complicated crashes a relatively easy task. Beginning in the early 90s, MARC1 was developed with many helpful inputs and hints from law enforcement and experts.
