Casuistic analysis of the passenger’s throw-off distance at car collision

Abstract

Reconstruction of traffic accidents, with all the important facts for their understanding and appreciation, can be done only after investigating, understanding, interpreting and correlating the information obtained from the on-site footprints, witness statements, and more recently from the data stored in vehicle registration systems. By investigating a road accident it is intended to obtain and clarify as much information as possible about the accident. The final purpose of the expertise is a comprehensive set of accident information. An important aspect of accidents involving pedestrians is the speed reconstruction with which the pedestrian has been hit. In the presented paper the analysis of a large casuistry, personally collected by the author from locally traffic events, is made. As a result a regression curve is determined on the pedestrian throw distance. This law is compared with those determined by various authors.