Motor Vehicle Collisions
Low Speed/Minor Impacts
FSB specializes in reconstructing minor motor vehicle impacts in addition to the examination of the resultant occupant dynamics (i.e., biomechanics). Upon characterizing the movement and associated occupant loading, mechanisms of injury can then be assessed.
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The quantification of the severity of minor vehicle-to-vehicle impacts is typically achieved from photographic documentation of the involved vehicles in addition to crush measurements and Event Data Recorder (EDR), or "black box", downloads. Critical physical laws, such as the law of the conservation of momentum, are employed to accurately compute the change in velocity (ΔV) of the struck vehicle.
High Speed Impacts
The questions "who caused the accident" or "how did each driver/vehicle contribute to the accident" are typically posed in high speed collisions.
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The preservation of the key pieces of physical evidence such as the post-accident vehicle conditions, roadway dimensions and markings are initially completed via ground level photographs or aerial images acquired with a drone. Powerful physics based software is then utilized to examine the vehicle collision dynamics to determine critical aspects such as the pre-impact vehicle speeds.
