Abstract

An analysis of the dynamics of motions of passenger cars in falls over embankments at speeds less than that required to launch a car into a free-fall trajectory is developed in this paper as an aid in evaluating initial vehicle speed in this particular type of crash involved in the forensic science field of accident reconstruction.

Issue Section:
Research Papers
Keywords:
engineering, automobiles, motor vehicle accidents, collision research

References

1.
Le Fevre
,
W. F.
, “
Speed Analysis of Passenger Cars in Free-Fall Launch Motions
,”
Journal of Forensic Sciences
 0022-1198, Vol.
31
, No.
3
,
07
1986
, pp.
886
-
902
.
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