CHAPTER 5

Question 1

• It is the systematic determination of what
  transpired in a traffic accident.

Answer 1

TRAFFIC ACCIDENT INVESTIGATION

Question 2

• An activity performed by the police to gather information relative to an accident. The act of determining what happened and who and what was involve in the traffic accident, usually at the scene of the accident.

Answer 2

TRAFFIC ACCIDENT INVESTIGATION

Question 3

– is that occurrence in a sequence of
events which usually produces unintended injury, death, or property damage.

Answer 3

Accident

Question 4

– an accident involving travel transportation on a traffic way.

Answer 4

Traffic Accident

Question 5

– is any event that results in unintended injury or property damage attributable directly or indirectly to the action of a motor vehicle or its load.

Answer 5

• Motor Vehicle Accident

Question 6

• to any vehicle propelled by any
  power other than muscular power using the public highways,

Answer 6

• Motor Vehicle

Question 7

– is the entire width between boundary
lines of every way or place of which any part is open to the use of the public for purposes of vehicular traffic as a matter of right or custom

Answer 7

Traffic Way

Question 8

• is any person using a traffic way for travel, parking for other purposes as a pedestrian or driver,

Answer 8

• Traffic Unit

Question 9

– an event on the road which
characterizes the manner of occurrence of a motor vehicle traffic accident.

Answer 9

• Key Event

Question 10

– is the accumulation of broken parts of vehicles rubbish, dust and other materials left at the scene of the accident by a collision.

Answer 10

Debris

Question 11

– are signs left on the roadway by tires
which are not free to rotate, usually because brakes are applied strongly and the wheels locked

Answer 11

• Skid Marks

Question 12

• a braking skid mark interrupted at
  frequent regular intervals; the skid mark made by a bouncing wheel on which brakes keep the wheel from turning

Answer 12

Skip Skid

Question 13

– one signs left on the road by tires
that are sliding or scrubbing while the wheel is still turning

Answer 13

Scuff Marks

Question 14

– is any motor vehicle accident occurring on a traffic way. E.g. ordinary collision between automobiles on a highway.

Answer 14

1. Motor Vehicle traffic accident

Question 15

– is any motor vehicle accident which occurs entirely in any place other than a traffic way.

Answer 15

2. Motor Vehicle non-traffic accident

Question 16

– is any accident occurring on a traffic way involving persons using the traffic way or travel or transportation, but not involving
a motor vehicle in motion, e. g. pedestrian and cyclist in a traffic way.

Answer 16

3. Non-Motor vehicle traffic accident

Question 17

Accident- is any motor vehicle accident where there is no fatal or injury to any person but only damage to the motor vehicle or to other property including injury to animals.

Answer 17

Property Damage

Question 18

• any motor vehicle accidents that
  result death to one or more persons

Answer 18

Fatal Accident

Question 19

• any motor vehicle accident that results in injuries other than fatal to one or more persons

Answer 19

Non-Fatal Injury Accident

Question 20

– is seeing, feeling, or hearing
and understanding the usual or unexpected movement or condition that could be taken as a sign of the accident about to happen.

Answer 20

Perception of hazard

Question 21

– is the first action taken by traffic unit to escape from a collision course or otherwise avoid a hazard.

Answer 21

Start of evasive action

Question 22

– is a first accidental touching of an object collision course or otherwise avoid a hazard.

Answer 22

Initial Contact

Question 23

– is greatest collapse or overlap in a collision. The force between the traffic unit and the object collided with are the greatest at maximum engagement.

Answer 23

Maximum Engagement

Question 24

– is separation of a traffic unit in
motion from an object with which it has collided. Force between the object ceases at this time.

Answer 24

Disengagement

Question 25

– is coming to rest. It usually destabilizes the accident situation.

Answer 25

Stopping

Question 26

– is receiving bodily harm.

Answer 26

Injury

Question 27

• This is characterized by one of the involved
  persons ran away from the accident scene to evade responsibility

Answer 27

Hit and Run Case

Question 28

– In the absence of eyewitness, the broken glass can be mute witness that can talk to unmask the driver and open out the mystery vehicle.

Answer 28

Splintered Glass

Question 29

– It is now a settled fact that the pedestrian
victim was run-over by the car as established by the broken headlamp glass. That being the case, tire marks can be lifted or collage on the clothing of the hit and run victim or on the pavement to supplement and compliment previous findings.

Answer 29

The Mark

Question 30

– The victim having been bumped by the
car that resulted to his instantaneous death, definitely left residues on the clothes or on the pavement of car paints as a consequence of the collision.

Answer 30

Paint Strips