Traffic Crash Investigation
Edition: 11
Copyright: 2022
Pages: 590
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Traffic Crash Investigation is recognized today as fundamental to a sound program of traffic control and accident prevention. This manual is designed to facilitate proper training in this field by serving both as a textbook and an instructional guide. Unique in the field of police publications, it offers for the first time in a single volume a thorough, practical and understandable treatment of the facts and techniques with which the competent investigator must be familiar.
This volume is the 11th Edition of the Investigation book. After the first edition was published in 1940, the subsequent editions (through 2001) were nearly all written by J. Stannard Baker. Mr. Baker passed away in 1995. The primary author/editor for this volume is Lynn B. Fricke.
Chapter 1 – Preparation for Traffic Crash Investigation
Chapter 2 – Information From and About People
Chapter 3 – Traffic Crash Information From Vehicles
Chapter 4 – Crash Information from Roads
Chapter 5 – Measuring at the Scenes of Traffic Crashes
Chapter 6 – Measuring the Road for AterCrash Situation Maps
Chapter 7 – Drawing After-Crash Situation Maps
Chapter 8 – Crash Scene and Vehicle Damage Photography
Chapter 9 – Photogrammetry For Traffic Crash Analysis
Chapter 10 – Understanding Vehicle Behavior in a Collision
Chapter 11 – Electronic Crash Scene Measurements and After-Crash Situation Maps Using Computers
Chapter 12 – Lamp Examination for “On” or “Off” in Vehicle Crashes
Chapter 13 – Tire Examination After Motor Vehicle Crashes
Chapter 14 – Investigation of Hit and Run Crashes
Lynn B. Fricke is a licensed engineer and educator specializing in vehicle crash reconstruction. He began his career at the Northwestern University Traffic Institute (renamed in 2000 as the Center for Public Safety) in 1975, and was appointed director of the Traffic Institute's Accident Investigation Division in 1981. Under J. Stannard Baker's helmsmanship, he initially authored several topics in the classic texts Traffic Crash Reconstruction and Traffic Crash Investigation prior to becoming the primary author of the current editions. In 1992, he teamed up with Gary Cooper to form the firm Fricke Cooper Engineering, from which he retired in 2001. During his retirement, he has continued to work with NUCPS as a consultant, crash investigation instructor, and as an on-going editor of our authoritative textbooks. Fricke graduated cum laude from St. Louis University with a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering. He earned a M.S. in Traffic Engineering from the Univeristy of Illinois Champaign-Urbana and a M.A. in Teaching from National Louis University.