Increased awareness of road safety and a need for estimating vehicle speeds in accident reconstruction has spawned an ever increasing literature on speed estimation form vehicle damage. This paper goes back to a single variable, the slope of the impact speed /residual crush curve and derives a set of crush coefficients and their variance.
In: Accident Reconstruction: Automobiles, tractor, semi- trailers, motorcycles and pedestrians. SAE publication No.P- 193.Proceedings of the International Congress and Exposition, Detroit, Michigan, February 23- 27, 1987, p. 49- 56, 7 ref.SAE paper No. 870499.
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