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Crush Analysis

Jason Armstrong (jasonarm@cmn.net)
Fri, 24 May 1996 18:47:25 -0400 (EDT)

Has anyone found research or had experience that assists in supporting crush
analysis as a reliable speed determination under the following conditions.
The research would have to be able to be presented in a criminal court
setting. These questions were argued by a lawyer in my area.

I have all the references from N.W.U. resource...

Areas covered would include

T-bone Accidents - using energy calculations from crush data to determine
speed of vehicles.
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Example: One vehicle T-bone's another...

Vehicle #1 has side damage with crush data resulting in energy of X.

Vehicle #2 has front damage with crush data resulting in energy of Y.

Using X+Y to find vehicle #2's speed.
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Any thoughts will help!

Jason Armstrong
jasonarm@cmn.net

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