Here is a wealth of links to information about safety engineering, injury control devices, traffic investigation software, books and journals on the topic of accident investigation, and organizations committed to accident investigation and auto safety. Steve's Accident Reconstructionist's Calculator is a program which can be downloaded and used as part of your experimental study. Harris Technical Services is a traffic accident reconstruction firm which offer a variety of services pertaining to the analysis of accidents. Most of their services are offerred to attourneys who are representing victims of accidents in court. Finally, this site offers a piece of downloadable shareware, a link to TARO, and an opportunity to chat on-line with traffic accident professionals.
Most accident reconstruction is performed using computerized techniques.
Discussion of Newton's laws, momentum conservation, external forces, trajectory-based analyses, and energy dissipation are included on this page. SEAL Corporation is another traffic accident reconstruction firm which provides services to lawyers and accident victims. Their main specialty seems to be the use of video technology to accumulate evidence from the accident scene which could ultimately lead to accurate analysis and reconstruction of the accident. This particular page discusses this technology and provides links to further information about accident reconstruction. This is a web site for a company which conducts research into accident reconstruction and auto safety.