Reconstruction of Pedestrian-Vehicle accidents – Determining of Vehicle Speed
According to throw Distance Using Rec-Tec Platinum Program
Cristian–Ion Stoian
cristian68rekord@gmail.com
Cosmin–Nicolae Andrei
cosmin.mabriond@gmail.com
Mabriond Auto SRL
Abstract: This article presents the main ecuations (validated at the world level) of the REC-TEC Platinium software subrutine (software dedicated to road accident reconstruction), used for computing the speed of a car at the moment of its impact with a pedestrian crossing the street.
Keywords: launch speed, throw distance, vault, coefficient of friction, brake deceleration.
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