Welcome to another edition of It’s in the Details, a short newsletter intended to provide helpful information for those in the litigation industry who deal with forensic engineering experts and their work. The vehicles involved in most crashes are treasure troves of electronic dataAs you may be aware, most road-going passenger vehicles produced in the last twenty-plus years possess some type of electronic device which can record crash data, such as the Event Data Recorder (EDR, or “black box”) feature built into a car’s airbag control module. EDR’s are intended to record a limited set of data specifically relating to a collision if certain thresholds are met. However, what many people don't know is that many modern passenger cars are also capable of recording a wealth of additional information that goes beyond what the EDR will record.
So you can see that there might be a bunch of invaluable data stored within each car involved in a crash. However, time is of the essence in collecting such data as it can be quickly lost due to the vehicles being repaired, scrapped, or exported from the country. Thanks for reading, and feel free to reach out to us with any technical questions you might have about this or other topics related to forensic engineering. |