Selected papers form this SAE Special Publication, Accident Reconstruction 2003 (SP-1773). Contents: Vehicle Acceleration and Compartment Intrusion for Far-Sided Occupants v. Near-Sided Occupants in Frontal Offset Collisions; SMAC2003: The Automatic Iteration of SMAC; Conducting Monte Carlo Analysis with Spreadsheet Programs; Application of the Monte Carlo Methods for Stability Analysis Within the Accident Reconstruction Software PC-CRASH; Evaluating Uncertainty in Accident Reconstruction with Finite Differences; Modeling of Low-Speed, Front-to-Rear Vehicle Impacts; Practical Analysis Methodology for Low Speed Vehicle Collisions Involving Vehicles with Modern Bumper Systems; Side Impact Motor Vehicle Structural Characteristics From Crash Tests; Theoretical vs. Empirical Solutions for Vehicle/Pedestrian Collisions; Head, Hip and Knee Velocities of Restrained Occupants in Frontal Impacts; Development and Evaluation of Driver Response Time Predictors Based upon Meta Analysis; The Analysis and Determination of Tire-Roadway Frictional Drag; A Study of Errors in Yaw-Based Speed Estimates Due to Effective Braking; The Accuracy of Pre-Crash Speed Captured by Event Data Recorders. Effects of Mass and Stiffness Ratio Variation on Vehicle Speed Change and Closing Speed Calculations; Optical Coordinate Measuring Techniques for the Determination and Visualization of 3D Displacements in Crash Investigations; Bulb Usage Analysis of LED-Type Automotive Lighting. (Author/publisher)
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