relation: http://miis.maths.ox.ac.uk/miis/591/
title: Statistical Modelling of Pre-Impact Velocities in Car Crashes
creator: Kager, W
creator: Kryven, I
creator: Myerscough, K
subject: Transport and Automotive
subject: Machines / Production
subject: None/Other
description: The law wants to determine if any party involved in a car crash is guilty. The Dutch court invokes the expertise of the Netherlands Forensic Institute (NFI) to answer this question. We discuss the present method of the NFI to deter-  mine probabilities on pre-impact car velocities, given the evidence from the crash scene. A disadvantage of this method is that it requires a prior distribution on the velocities of the cars involved in the crash. We suggest a different approach, that of statistical significance testing, which can be carried out without a prior. We explain this method, and apply it to a toy model. Finally, a sensitivity analysis is performed on a simple two-car collision model.
date: 2011
type: Study Group Report
type: NonPeerReviewed
format: application/pdf
language: en
identifier: http://miis.maths.ox.ac.uk/miis/591/1/Amst116.pdf
identifier:   Kager, W and Kryven, I and Myerscough, K  (2011) Statistical Modelling of Pre-Impact Velocities in Car Crashes.  [Study Group Report]