Reconstruction of an accident involving a Hummer driving at high speed and a Nissan turning in

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Main author

Becke, M.

Co-Authors

Wolbers, J.

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Publication type

Lecture

Publication year

2013

Publisher

22. EVU Conference, Florence

Citation

Becke, M.: Reconstruction of an accident involving a Hummer driving at high speed and a Nissan turning in based on a crash test using identical vehicles

EVU 2013 Florence BeckeWe present an extraordinary accident reconstruction for which two experts have previously offered different conclusions
beforehand. A Hummer H2 crashes, at high speed, into the side of a Nissan Primera turning into its road.
There were large differences in the evaluation of the EES values due to the different structural stiffness of the vehicles
and the extreme deformation of the Nissan, which was hit in the side.
A crash test using vehicles identical to the ones involved in the accident was carried out at considerable financial
expense, not only to determine the total deformation energy but also to obtain additional information about the exact
collision location. The insight gained through the test led to distance-to-time correlations that differ decisively from the
conclusions of the two previous experts.