McHenry Forum - Crash Reconstruction & Simulation

When Texting Kills, Britain Offers Path to Prison New York Times, ELISABETH ROSENTHAL, November 2, 2009 OXFORD, England — Inside the imposing British Crown Court here, Phillipa Curtis, 22, and her parents cried as she was remanded for 21 months to a high-security women’s prison, for killing someone...

N.F.L. Players and Union Say They Share Blame on Head Injuries New York Times, ALAN SCHWARZ, October 31, 2009 As a House Judiciary Committee hearing examined football brain injuries Wednesday and strongly criticized the N.F.L. and its concussion committee for their research and approach, lawmakers,...

Q: What is the ATB? A: ATB is the acronym for the Articulated Total Body (ATB). The ATB Model is a public domain computer program that is used to simulate the dynamic motion of jointed systems of rigid bodies The ATB program is a research tool which is used primarily to interpolate and extrapolate t...

A follow up on the previous NFL articles: N.F.L.’s Dementia Study Has Flaws, Experts Say NYTimes , Alan Schwarz , October 27, 2009 The N.F.L. and its doctors have consistently dismissed independent studies showing unusual cognitive decline in former players. They insist that a long-term study by the...

The following are some recent North Carolina examples where prosecutors didn't play fair with evidence: In 2004 the North Carolina legislature mandated an open-file discovery system after public outcry over the wrongful conviction and death sentence of Alan Gell . On appeal, Gell's conviction was ov...

Fatalities in Frontal Crashes Despite Seat Belts and Air Bags (Tech. Report) On October 15, 2009 NHTSA issued a report on Fatalities in Frontal Crashes Despite Seat Belts and Air Bags. The principal finding is that many of the crashes involve poor structural engagement between the vehicle and its c...

Prosecutors Turn Tables on Student Journalists New York Times, Monica Davey , Oct 25, 2009 EVANSTON, Ill. — For more than a decade, classes of students at Northwestern University ’s journalism school have been scrutinizing the work of prosecutors and the police. The investigations into old crimes, ...

For the latest posts on this topic scroll down or click here Q: Is there a tire friction variation in cooler temperatures? A: Studies have demonstrated that the coefficient of friction can vary with the temperature with the lowest values at or around freezing. See Grosch, Schallenbech “Tire Frictio...

Found another YouTube video with some http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ak2g5GGE6-k more Spiral Jump footage including some of the original Calspan Tests, some of the touring Thrill show versions and finishing with the James Bond version. You will notice that most of the footage from the touring shows ...

The following are some recent articles on Truamatic brain Injury (TBI) as related to football injuries: A recent article in the New Yorker Magazine: OFFENSIVE PLAY How different are dogfighting and football? , Malcolm Gladwell ,October 19, 2009 Also in the New York Times: Concussion Trauma Risk Seen...