POLICE DEPARTMENT
CRASH INVESTIGATION
The Crash Investigation Unit is a specialized unit that investigates all motor vehicle crashes involving fatalities, serious bodily injuries, and fleet accidents. The members of this unit have had at least 200 hours in specialized training in crash investigations and reconstruction. The members of the Unit rotate responsibilities for being called out in teams of two with one supervisor for all major collisions within the city. Members of this unit are on call 24 hours and available for any crash of a serious nature.
The Unit has obtained various instruments in the past year that assist the investigators in the accuracy and clarity of their determinations. The instruments are a Nikon Total Mapping Station, a Vericom VC-2000, and Aims Production Software. The Nikon Station allows the investigators to map a collision scene accurately, to scale, and in less time than conventional methods. This helps open roadways faster than what was previously available. The Vericom system allows investigators to obtain accurate road drag factors and acceleration factors in approximately 85% less time than conventional methods. Drag factors are used to assist in determining vehicle speeds at the time of the collision under investigation. An acceleration factor is used to allow investigators to figure time and distance of accelerating vehicles.
The mission and goal of this Unit is to prove how any collision investigated occurred by evidence and not suppositions.
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