The main purpose of Work Package 1 is to ensure that accident data which are collected by several teams is directly comparable. To collect accident data of all teams in a similar way is essential for comparing data as well as injury data of involved persons in an accident. This shouldn’t be only for this project; this should be for subsequent projects too. Topic of task 1 in this Work Package: “Accident reconstruction and collision severity assessment guidelines”. Therefore task 1 was divided into three subtasks: objective is firstly to develop methods and guidelines for the reconstruction of road traffic accidents, secondly to develop a database which includes the main information about available public domain crash tests and thirdly develop methods for determining the comparability and accuracy of reconstruction methods. This booklet provides a brief description of accident reconstruction methods which exists their validation techniques as well as measure deformation of vehicles and the accident scene. Furthermore a description of reconstruction parameters exists and how to deal with evidence. Some different software tools are described within this booklet, but there is no recommendation which one should be used. This is just the decision of the person itself. (Author/publisher)
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