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Re: Pedestrian Accident Reconstruction

Joseph Shreve (jwshreve@sierranet.net)
Fri, 14 Nov 1997 21:45:02 -0500 (EST)

Gentlemen, again, tough room.

Jim M., the height of cm was gleaned from Jim P,s description of the events and the car he described. And the word I used was rotate, not spin. I'll elaborate more on that a little later.

Ed, when I sent my reply to Jim P. last night I just went by memory. After seeing the posts today I went and checked my library and first went to the same manual Jim P. quoted, Fricke's manual. I re-read chapter 877 and it describes in writing and pictorially just what I described in my post. And I add to Mr. Fricke's book my personal experience of having seen 2 similar crashes, and in both the body did what I described. What more can I say. Fricke's volume is used frequently as a source, and as somebody recently posted, the most important question in court is, "how did you form the basis for your opinion?"

Also, Perplexed, Pissed Off? Are you pissed off at me? Am I pissed off at you? To the latter, no, as a matter of fact you reminded me a couple of months ago that if "You torture the data long enough it will confess to anything". Well, that is what I am doing, trying to apply your explanation to data already out there.

Jim P. I think Fricke's book, which you have, is very good. Age doesn't count. I think it can answer a lot of questions you have on this crash, just be sure your scene data is good.
Joseph Shreve
jwshreve@sierranet.net

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