ABSTRACT
It is a frequently asked question who was the driver of a vehicle when a traffic accident occur. To give an expert opinion who was the driver of vehicle, expert witness must inspect not only trace evidences remained in vehicle and occupant's clothing but also occupant's injuries. Thus, the collaboration of forensic engineering and forensic medicine is very fruitful in this kind of case. Due to open sitting position of occupants, deciding the driver of motorcycle is a very difficult and case dependent problem and it is very rare that the driver of motorcycle can be decided only by the estimation of occupant's injuries. In this report, we introduce the case that the driver of motorcycle can be decided by the collaboration of forensic engineering and forensic medicine.
Subject(s)
Accidents, Traffic , Clothing , Cooperative Behavior , Expert Testimony , Forensic Medicine , Fruit , MotorcyclesABSTRACT
Especially in design of automobile, there are many professional softwares based finite element or multi-body like Madymo, Pam-Crash, Ansys. These program have been released almost every car maker and university. Also in accident reconstruction fields, there are some softwares like PC-Crash, HVE was developed. Unfortunately these programs for accident reconstruction are so general and its input data are so limited, it is very difficult or even impossible to analyze some special cases. In this study, we reconstruct two crime scenes using Madymo program. Although this program was developed for design of car, we apply to crime scene reconstruction. First case is regarding traffic accident. A car was fell under 5m from the road and turn over and then move about 40m. Finally the driver eject from the car. Second case is regarding suicide by hanging. When the police investigate the crime scene at first time, they assume that this crime is a murder case but we carried out autopsy and investigated the crime scene again and analyzed by computer simulation and finally find out this crime is suicide case not murder.
Subject(s)
Humans , Accidents, Traffic , Automobiles , Autopsy , Computer Simulation , Crime , Homicide , Police , SuicideABSTRACT
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