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Calculating Pedestrian Center of Mass

Tim Boniface ([email protected])
Sat, 21 Nov 1998 22:44:24 -0500 (EST)

Does anyone know of a procedure or formula for calculating a pedestrian's center of mass from their height? I've been taught that the center of mass is generally the third sacral vertibrae. I am investigating a ped punt involving an elderly woman however I wasn't able to attend the autopsy. I learned from the pathologist that she was 65 inches in height. A colleague of mine told me that Jerry Eubanks had such a procedure. Anyone know it?

Tim Boniface
Waterloo Regional Police Service
[email protected]

Tim Boniface
[email protected]

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