Many Members or Associates of ITAI will recall and may have even registered with the RFP (Register of Forensic practitioners). The basic premise of such a register was to remove the guesswork as to the quality of expert witness on offer. Those forensic practitioners who decided there was value in registering with the RFP, had…
Our Expert, Mr Neil Salter, recently attended court as part of the final phase of a long running case. The charge brought and the circumstances of the alleged offence make interesting reading. Below is his synopsis of the events; 10th February 2012 Southampton Magistrates Court Having arrived at Court, I liaised with the defence…
Motorcycle Collisions For the purposes of this article, motorcycle collisions have been grouped into five separate categories. These are:- Junctions. Bends. Filtering The Exhibitionist. Other. Junctions This category covers collisions occurring at all manner of junctions, including “T” Junctions, private driveways, crossroads, and roundabouts. Research shows that in the majority of these types of…
Is it always easy to work out what’s happened in a crash? On face value you might think so. For example, if we were to review a collision where a motorcycle has negotiated a right hand bend in the wet and has ended up in the ditch to the left of the carriageway then the…
Having established a requirement for Forensic Analysis of collisions in the Roads Policing environment, the natural follow on was for defendants accused of criminal road traffic offences to have access to the same kind of expertise. Naturally, a period of time passed where the only source of the kind of expert witness required was in…
The world of collision investigation has come a long way since the first traffic officers stood on the side of the road like Judge Dread and pontificated over who was wrong or right based solely on their experience. Whilst the sixth sense of the Road Traffic policing expert should never be marginalised, a more scientific…