TECHNICAL ASPECTS OF TRAFFIC

ACCIDENT INVESTIGATION
GROUP 3
 DEFFINITION OF ATTRIBUTES

An attribute is any inherent characteristics of traffic

way, a vehicle of a person making a traffic way that
affects the probability of a traffic accident.
 PURPOSES OF TRAFFIC ACCIDENT INVESTIGATION

• Everyone involved is curious about causes and circumstances of

the accident.
• Police are also interested in findingout whether there is enough
evidence of law violation in the accident to take enforcement
action.
• Insurance agencies and adjusters want to determine negligence
on the part of the drivers involved in the accident so that damage
claims can be propertly adjusted.
• Government officials and other concerned authorities want
specific information about accidents to know better how to
prevent future accidents
 BASIC STEPS IN TRAFFIC ACCIDENT INVESTIGATION

 Go to the scene as quickly as possible.

 Park correctly to avoid futher collision and facilities traffic flow.
 Assess the situation and call for whatever assistance is necessary.
 Care to injured and protect their personal property.
 Protect the scene against additional collision.
 Locate drivers and establish identities
 Interview, drivers and witnesses.
 Note and record physical conditions at the scene, locations of vehicles and ev-
idence.
 Take photograph when possible.
 Test and inspect the vehicles when applicable.
 Have the scene cleared up.
 Follow-up at the hospital.
 Notify relative and survivors.
 Prepare reports.
 LEVELS OF ACTIVITY IN ACCIDENT INVESTIGATION

• Reporting
• At-scene investigation
• Professional reconstruction
• Cause analysis
HIT & RUN INVESTIGATION
 The following are the good ways of searching the scene of a hit-and-run
accident:

1. Look over the ground at what seems to be the point of collision.

2. Follow the path that the vehicle in leaving the scene to find out if it left tire
prints in the soft dirt,or where parts of the vehicle or broken glass fell off as is
drove away.
3. Study the objects the vehiclehas struckto see if there is a transfer of physical
evidence like paint.
4. Look foor things that may have spilled from the vehicle.
 PROVING DRIVING

This can be done either by eye witnesses or by physical

evidence. But it must be proved. The investigator must
bot assume that the owner of the vehicle was the
person actually driving it.
 NATURE OF COMMON HIT & CASES

1. Run over of pedestrian crossing on the roadway of crosswalk.

2. Sideswipped of pedestrian on the sidewalk or road shoulders.
3. Collided with a moving vehicle while overtaking thesame direction on
the same direction.
4. Collided with a moving vehicle while overtaking thesame direction on
the opposite direction.
5. Danaged oarked vehicle along the roadside and parking areas.
6. Crushed police road blocks
7. Bumped stray animal on the roadway.
TECHNICAL PREPARATION
Technical Preparation includesmaking aditional
measurements and photographs, preparing
maps and diaprams, simple speed estimates,
matching damage areas and making
experiments to obtaian specific data.
 TRIANGULATION
A method of locationg aspot in
the area by measurements from two or
more reference points, the location of
which are identical for future reference.
Compare with coordinates
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