Traffic Crash Reconstruction 1

Regisration through NUCPS     

Registration Deadline: June 11, 2022 

Traffic Crash Reconstruction 1 (TCR1) features a format that focuses on analyzing and interpreting information that has been collected during the initial crash investigation to describe the events leading to actual impact and the crash itself in as much detail as possible. Students learn how to apply skills obtained through course lectures to real-world case study situations and complete the class with the training necessary to reconstruct traffic collisions. TCR1 covers such critical core material as: engineering mechanics; vehicle behavior in collisions; an introduction to human factors; time-distance analysis; EDR usage in traffic crash reconstruction; post-collision drag factor analysis; momentum; and, special velocity calculations (e.g., sideslip, falls, vaults, and flips).

Traffic Crash Reconstruction 1 (TCR1) focuses on analyzing and interpreting information that has been collected during the initial crash investigation to describe the events leading to actual impact and the crash itself in as much detail as possible. Students learn how to apply skills obtained through course lectures to real-world case study situations and complete the class with the training necessary to reconstruct traffic collisions.

Course Content:
•    Engineering Mechanics
•    Vehicle Behavior in Collisions
•    Introduction to Human Factors
•    Time-Distance Analysis
•    Conservation of Momentum
•    EDR Usage in Traffic Crash Reconstruction
•    Post-Collision Drag Factor
•    Basic Equations of Motion
•    Newton's Laws of Motion
•    Collinear collisions
•    Oblique collisions
•    Opposite-direction collision
•    Same-direction collision
•    Single-vehicle collision
•    Marks on the road
•    Driver strategy and tactics
•    Eight Real-World Case Studies

Prerequisites: 
 Online or On-Ground: Crash Investigation 1, Crash Investigation 2, and Vehicle Dynamics; or, equivalent crash investigation courses and with NUCPS department approval.

Registration:
Northern Illinois Training Advisory Board is hosting this event for Northwestern University Center for Public Safety.  Registrants are responsible for the full tuition.  To register for the course or for more details visit nucps.northwestern.edu/crash

This course is pending ILETSB approval for any mandates

THIS IS NOT A PUBLIC MEETING