Verification of an Accident Reconstruction by Reference to Real Time Video Footage

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Main author

White, I.

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Type of media

PDF

Publication type

Lecture

Publication year

2011

Publisher

20. EVU Conference, Graz

Citation

White, I.: Verification of an Accident Reconstruction by Reference to Real Time Video Footage. 20. EVU Conference, Gratz

This study involves a fatal road traffic accident between a BMW car and a Hyundai car at a crossroad junction. One special feature of the incident was that the accident was recorded by the forward facing video camera on a London Transport Bus.
PC Crash has, on a number of occasions, been verified by reconstructing incidents modelled in test crashes. The availability of the bus video of the accident gave an opportunity to verify the accuracy of this type of analysis with respect to an actual accident. In this respect, by building up a model of the accident site and replicating the position of the bus camera within the simulation, the reconstruction could be viewed in time and space. This animation could then be compared with the actual video of the incident as seen by the bus camera, to validate the speed estimates calculated in the program.
The validated approach velocities were then used to simulate the view seen by each driver on their approach, and proved that a fence had been an obstruction and had contributed to the accident.