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Accident Reconstruction Articles & Newsletters

Articles – Trucking/Heavy Vehicles

Accident Reconstruction Tractor Trailers and Heavy Trucks – Presented at the Trucking Accident Litigation Seminar in Columbia, SC, April 2008

Acceleration of Heavy Trucks – Presented at the 4th Annual Southeastern Reconstruction Conference, June 2002

Trailer Underride

Who Was Driving? – Crashed, Overturned and Burned!!

Reenactment of an Accident

Articles – General

Truck Modeling Acceleration

Acceleration Modeling with Constant Power, Woodrow M. Poplin and Colby A. Poplin, SAE Technical Paper 2023-01-5073, 2023, doi:10.4271/2023-01-5073 *New

Modeling Acceleration with Power Equations, Woodrow M. Poplin and Colby A. Poplin, presented at WREX 2023 – World Reconstruction Exposition, April 2023 *New

Adjusters Get There “First” – 10 Easy Steps to Capturing Accident Data While it is “Fresh” –  Presented at the Claims Management Association of SC Seminar in Charleston, SC., October 2012

Worksheet for Adjusters – 10 Steps to Capturing Accident Data

Quick Reference Card – Accident Reconstruction Equations

Accident Reconstruction – An Exact Science – Original Version Published in Fall 1993 Issue of South Carolina TRIAL LAWYER

Event Data Recorders – Crash Data Recorders – “The Black Box You Need To Know About” – Presented at the Strategies In Handling DUI Cases in SC Conference, April 2006

Is the accident the drivers fault? – Presented at the Strategies In Handling DUI Cases in SC Conference, March 2005

Perception/Reaction Time In Accident Reconstruction

COLLISIONS – Matching The Damage

Headlights on or off?

Head-On Collisions

Speed Evaluation

Tiremarks – Where the Rubber Meets the Road

Following Too Close – Tailgating – “Back Off, I Need My Space”

Common Errors in Accident Reconstruction