We investigate:

• Fatal road traffic collisions
• Motor car and / or pedestrian collisions
• Motor cycle collisions
• HGV / PCV Incidents
• Whiplash injuries
• Driver injuries / passenger injuries

Civil: If clients have been involved in a road traffic accident which was not their fault or only partly their fault and if they sustained injury or loss, they may be able to claim compensation. In addition to compensation for personal injury, they may be entitled to recover any loss of earnings incurred as a result of the accident, together with other uninsured losses.

Criminal: If clients have been charged by the Police, we will analyse (Police) statements, Police Crash Investigation Reports (calculation verification), summary of evidence, sketch plans, photographs and any other available disclosure and present all the facts within a professionally bound file with separate strategy advice.

We carry out all aspects of Forensic Accident Reconstruction including:

• Skid/yaw tyre mark speed calculations / verifications
• Acceleration and deceleration calculations
• Sight lines and approaching speeds (time over distance) 
• Momentum calculations
• Critical Curve Speed
• Pedestrian 'throw' calculations
• Reaction times (Perception Reaction Time)
• Motorcycle/Pedestrian conspicuity ('looked but failed to see')
• Braking and stopping distances (alternatives to Highway Code) 
• Scene examination
• Digital stills photographs (day time or night time)
• Crash scene video footage (sight lines, views, drive-through etc)
• Computer sketch plan

Some of the recent fatal accident Police Crash Reports from Tayside, Strathclyde and Grampian Police and Fife and Northern Constabulary which we analysed (verification and cross-reference with statements and physical evidence).

example of a computer sketch plan.