The Traffic Accident Reconstruction Origin -ARnews-

Codfficient of Friction of Grass

Ken Spears ([email protected])
Fri, 25 Sep 1998 14:43:51 -0400 (EDT)

I am involved in a homicide case in which the coef. of friction of the medium grass along an interstate highway was measured using a drag sled to be 0.75 in an afternoon of a dry day. The crash occurred the previous midnight. I have one table from a 1992 issue of Accident Reconstruction Journal which states grass is between 0.3 to 0.5 for dry and 0.2 to 0.4 for wet. I need other printed references. If you have any please inform me of their location or if possible send them along. thank you.
Ken Spears
[email protected]

NOTE: You are reading in an archived session of ARnews. It is possible that this topic is still being discussed. To see if this topic is still active, or of there were any more recent posts on this topic, check later archives of ARnews.

If there is no current post, and you would like to add to this topic, link to the Current ARnews Discussion and begin a new thread. Be sure that if you are starting a new post that the thread title does not contain the abbreviation RE: Placing RE: at the beginning of a new post will confuse Hypermail and prevent others from answering your post in the future.

For example, to continue this discussion look for a thread titled

Codfficient of Friction of Grass

If this thread does not exist in the current archive, you can begin another one by using that title.