Accident analysis

The accident analysis ( as well as accident reconstruction) includes the back-calculation of speeds after accidents from accident traces the investigation of accident sequences, Vermeidbarkeitsbetrachtungen of traffic accidents, fraud awareness, detection systems ( light, sounds, accelerations) and biomechanics ( for example during whiplash ).

Authority for accident analyzes are mainly civil and criminal courts and insurance companies or lawyers.

In Germany, the industry and commerce as a publicly appointed and sworn expert accident reconstructionist by the respective procedural codes ( Code of Criminal Procedure, Civil Procedure) for the designation by the courts are preferable to consider.

A systematic accident analysis of a variety of accidents can be used to improve road safety and accident research. Thus, in the Insurers Accident Research ( UDV ) for accident analyzes a variety of accident data in anonymous form in a separate accident database (UDB ) are stored. Evaluations of these UDB allow conclusions to which measures to increase road safety, eg Potential safety of driver assistance systems.

See also: cause of the accident, type of accident