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