Links to other Collision Reconstruction Related Sites

  • NHTSA CRASH3 Technical Manual, PDF file, 8 megs in size.  (Jan 2012: Note, the previous link to the NHTSA site has moved, we direct you to our local copy until we determine if they moved or removed the CRASH3 manual from the NHTSA site),
  • AAAM – American Association for Automotive Medicine – papers, seminars and meetings related to traffic medicine and highway safety
  • ASME – American Society of Mechanical Engineers – includes technical papers related to accident reconstruction.
  • Accident Reconstruction NetworkThe Accident Reconstruction Communications Network (The ARC Network)
  • McHenry Consultants, Inc.MCI specializes in the investigation and reconstruction of highway accidents which has included the development and utilization of computer programs.
  • Spiral Jump Patent – The actual patent by Raymond R. McHenry, US Patent No. 3,814,021
  • Milliken ResearchAuthors of excellent books Race Car Vehicle Dynamics and Chassis Design:Principles and Analysis.
  • John Fitch has an excellent site dedicated to Race car safety
  • NHTSA – crash test database information – a crash test database and an MVMA specs database is available for US $36 from NHTSA , which contains specs, crush measurements and accelerometer traces for > 2000 crash tests. Database scan be ordered by mail and/or Crash Tests are available online
  • Northwestern University Traffic Institute – Publish a two volume accident investigation and reconstruction manual used by police and others. Information on training seminars, etc.
  • NTIS – National Technical Information Service – includes access to research papers
  • NTSB -The National Transportation Safety Board – accident investigations for highway, aviation, marine, pipeline, railroad
  • RARU Road Accident Research Unit @ Adelaide, Australia – Includes an online database/search engine for their Traffic Safety library
  • R.W. (Bob) Rivers-Author: Traffic accident investigation and reconstruction textbooks.http://members.shaw.ca/mudrivers/
  • SAE -Society of Automobile Engineers – Technical papers, conference session announcements, Accident Investigation and Reconstruction Practices (AIRP)task force groups, etc. related to Accident Reconstruction.
  • TARO -Traffic Accident Reconstruction Origin – is an interesting sample of the potential of the WWW for Accident Reconstruction. It is the Senior Design Project of Bill Wright, a mechanical engineering student at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton Fla., and it includes ARNews which is a interactive collection of accident reconstruction topics.
  • ITAI – Institute of Traffic Accident Investigators – a UK Institute formed in1988 to provide a means for communication , education, representation and regulation in the field of traffic accident investigation
  • Vericom Computers,Inc. Manufacture the Vericom VC2000 brake testing computer
  • Other versions of SMAC computer program WWW home sites.
  • Other versions of CRASH computer programs WWW home sites.
  • Indexof Accident Reconstruction Resources A collection of links, phone numbers and addresses related to Accident Reconstruction information sources.

Please e-mail us with the URL of any other web pages related to accident reconstruction and investigation.