Traffic Crash Reconstruction

PRE-REQUISITE: Due to the highly technical subject matter, it is mandatory to have successfully completed IPTM’s Advanced Traffic Crash Investigation (80 hours) course or its equivalent.

Traffic Crash Reconstruction builds upon the Advanced Crash Investigation course by further assisting you to understand vehicle dynamics. You will take part in a more intense study of time/distance calculations, angular momentum and impact speed calculations using momentum equations.

Topics include:

Derivation and origin of the commonly used speed formulas
Speed of vehicles at impact using conservation of linear momentum
Behavior of vehicles in a collision using Newton’s three laws of motion
Discussions of commercial vehicle and motorcycle dynamics in collisions
The determination of direction of travel, initial contact and position of vehicles on the roadway

This course includes extensive project work and controlled vehicle experiments to give you first-hand experience in crash reconstruction. Each student will be required to diagram and analyze three different crash scenarios as well as complete vector sum analysis of each.

This course is for Law enforcement and private traffic crash investigators, claims adjusters, engineers, attorneys, safety officers, military investigative personnel, animators and graphic designers

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