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Serious accidents require a seasoned expert. Meet one of ours... Ron Watson. A veteran accident investigator and former accident reconstruction specialist for the U.S. Army, Ron matches his skills with an impressive record of success in Federal Court.

 Demonstrative Evidence
 
EDCRASH™ is an analysis of single- or two-vehicle collisions. Based on the Calspan Reconstruction of Accident Speeds on the Highway (CRASH), EDCRASH also includes numerous enhancements developed both by NHTSA and Engineering Dynamics Corporation. The program determines the conditions of impact, including the speeds of the vehicles before and after impact and the severity of impact (delta-V), using information obtained from vehicles and accident site inspections. More than a simple skid-to-stop program, EDCRASH analyzes each phase of the crash and performs numerous consistency checks on the results. EDCRASH is a 3-degree of freedom (yaw plane) reconstruction analysis; suspension effects are ignored. For oblique collision, the impact phase is analyzed using the conservation of momentum; for collinear impact, vehicle damage is used in conjunction with crush stiffness tables derived from actual impact testing. The impact-to-rest phase is analyzed using energy methods, with extensions allowing for the effects of vehicle rotation and curved trajectory. The impact-to-rest phase may also be subjected to a trajectory simulation to confirm the results. First introduced in 1984, EDCRASH has since become universally recognized as the industry standard reconstruction program. No other reconstruction program has been so well documented, validated and critically reviewed as EDC’s EDCRASH. Numerous validation studies are published in the technical literature.
EDSMAC Simulation
Integrated Reporting Tools
Site drawings, trajectory simulations, damage profiles, momentum diagrams, data graphs. Numeric Output: Program data, variable output, warning messages, accident history, vehicle data and damage data.