TRAFFIC ACCIDENT INVESTIGATION GUIDELINES WITH REFERENCE TO DESERT ENVIRONMENTS

The manual is clear and in accordance with the modern trends of accident investigation and analysis. Illustrations, photos and examples from real life situations are used, as well as the author’s experience from the Sultanate of Oman and Middle East.
The MAIN purpose of this manual is to present the principles and techniques of the on scene investigation, based on the years of experience of on-scene investigations of traffic accidents and to explain in deep the way on-scene investigation and later reporting is performed as a guideline for the real-life on scene investigation.
The Manual is divided into four segments, each compatible with the course tailored for the on-scene investigators and the steps that need to be taken during the on-scene investigation.
The segments are:
-Securing the scene of the accident, evidence identification and the on-scene measurement
-Photographing the evidences, scaled on-scene diagram production and evidence verification
-Vehicle examination, photogrammetric, advanced techniques of on-scene measurement and evidence compatibility
-Usage of available software or data for the further in depth identification of the evidence