Romanian Journal of Information Technology and Automatic Control / Vol. 21, No. 1, 2011

Reconstruction of Pedestrian-Vehicle accidents – Determining of Vehicle Speed According to throw Distance Using Rec-Tec Platinum Program

Cristian–Ion STOIAN, Cosmin–Nicolae ANDREI

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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Cristian–Ion STOIAN, Cosmin–Nicolae ANDREI, "Reconstruction of Pedestrian-Vehicle accidents – Determining of Vehicle Speed According to throw Distance Using Rec-Tec Platinum Program", Romanian Journal of Information Technology and Automatic Control, ISSN 1220-1758, vol. 21(1), pp. 5-10, 2011.