Traffic Accident Reconstruction Services and Expert Witness

UTC's traffic experts with extensive forensic traffic accident reconstruction experience provide high quality, reliable and cost effective forensic traffic accident reconstruction services to determine causes of traffic accidents, reconstruct traffic accident processes and recommend countermeasures to prevent traffic accident recurrence in respects of collisions, impacts, crash, injuries and vehicle damages, and acting as traffic accident expert witness testifying in Singapore Court.

UTC accident reconstruction experts were engaged by government agencies (MOM, SCDF, ESG, PUB), MNCs and insurance companies (Hyundai Korea, Takenaka Japan, China Raiway Tunnel Group, AIG, MSIG Insurance, NTUC Health Group, SEMCO Marine, and Lawyer Firms of Rajah & Tann and WongPartnership, etc.) for investigating & reconstructing a number of high profile accident cases, lecturing "Failure Investigation Analysis" for RSAF & "Vehicle Fire Investigation" for LTA, testifying in court as traffic expert witness and accident expert witness. UTC traffic expert had been featured in Straits Times and MediaCorp TV programs for accident investigation, and called by journalists for providing expert opinions on traffic accidents. UTC's accident investigation services are cost-effective, validated by a number of awards on relevant projects from government tenders in GeBiz.

UTC's expert witness services and accident investigation reports were proven and accepted by High Court, State Court, Criminal Court and Arbitration Court.

OBJECTIVE: Support the party with financial difficulty for pursuing deserved justification in traffic accident litigation.

AID MODE: Up to 100% professional fee for traffic expert witness on traffic accident reconstruction & investigation will NOT be payable until winning or favourably settling down the litigation case.

TERMS & CONDITIONS:

NOTE: Professional fee for traffic expert witness on accident investigation and reconstruction is fully claimable when winning or favourably settling down the litigation case.

Traffic accident reconstruction is to to uncover information on the unknown conditions and human actions in the traffic collision, and determine the cause(s) of the traffic accident(s) as well as relevant liabilities, based on known information captured after the collision (i.e., scene photographs/videos, measurements and physical evidence, police statements), and scientific principles.

Every year, thousands of traffic collision and accidents occur in Singapore, giving rise to a lot of vehicular damage insurance claims, medical compensation claims, criminal charges and civil suits. Traffic accidents caused heavy economic and social toll in terms of repair costs, medical costs, loss of future income, cost of investigation and legal procedures, and pains/suffering.

In litigations, traffic accident reconstruction (or traffic accident investigation) is necessary to prepare investigation report for litigation, the investigator or reconstructor will be called as traffic accident reconstruction expert witness to testify in Court hearing. For more details about expert witness, click Expert witness in litigation and insurance claims.

• Determine the traffic accident cause(s);
• Reconstruct the traffic accident events;
• Assess the possibility of injuries caused by traffic accident;
• Filter out possible insurance claim fraud in traffic accident;
• Assist and support the reasonable claims and compensations related to road traffic accident;
• Support traffic accident related litigations including court hearing.

A thorough and complete road traffic accident reconstruction (or traffic accident investigation) involves following steps:

UTC provides professional services in following areas:


• Forensic investigation on vehicle collisions.
• Assessment on vehicle speeds during traffic accident.
• Reconstruction of traffic accident sequences.
• Evaluation on vehicle damages.
• Reconstruction movements of vehicle(s), motorcycle(s), bicycle(s) and pedestrian(s) after collision.
• Evaluation on impact effects of traffic collisions.
• Assessment on driver, cyclist and pedestrian's behaviours during the accident based on the relevant regulations or laws.
• Assessment on road traffic accident injuries.

UTC other expert areas, please refer to
• Failure analysis services
• Forensic investigation on industrial accidents
• Corrosion engineering
• Crane accident investigation and failure analysis
• Fire investigation
• Expert witness in litigation and insurance claims.
• Condition assessment
• Design and structural analysis
• Industrial technical training courses:
1. Industrial Failure Analysis - Investigation, causes, mechanisms and prevention
2. Applied Metallurgy - Compositions, microstructure, process and properties of metals and alloys
3. Corrosion - mechanisms, investigation and prevention
4. -Fire Investigation
5. Structual analysis in design and failure investigation
6. Human factors in design and accident investigation

• Investigation and reconstruction on car and bicycle collision accident.
• Accident investigation and reconstruction on chain collicion of multiple cars.
• Investigation on car collision and fire accident.
• Accident reconstruction of car and pedestrian collision.
• Investigation and reconstruction on fatal accident of prime mover and ISO tank truck collision.
• Fatal accident reconstruction of truck (lorry) colliding cyclist.
• Reconstruction of motorcycle colliding motorcycle accident.
• Forensic investigation on mass rapid transport system (MRT) / subway accidents.
• Forensic investigation on taxi/car/vehicle fire and explosion.
• Investigation on accidents of mobile crane toppling.
• Investigation on fatal vehicle accident involved steer system failure.
• Forensic analysis on traffic accident involved flexible flat cable failure of airbags.

Traffic collisions may involve vehicles such as passenger cars, vans, lorries, heavy trucks, buses, and vulnerable road users on motorcycles, scooters, bicycles, personal mobility device (“PMD”, skateboards, kick scooters, e-scooters and e-wheels and pedestrians.

A moving vehicle may collide with a fixed object (eg lamp-post, tree), a stationary vehicle, another moving vehicle, bicycle, pedestrian or animal. If accidents involved multiple vehicles in series, they are called chain collision.

• head-on (frontal) collision;
• sideswipe collision;
• broadside (side impact);
• rear-end collision;
• under-ride accident;
• vehicle yaw;
• vehicle fall;
• vehicle flip
• car rollover.



Collisions may occur along straight segments, bends, at pedestrian crossings or at junctions. A vehicle may be turning, changing lane, merging into a lane, passing, crossing a junction or negotiating a bend.

Traffic accidents may relate to human factor (drivers characteristics and conditions including risk taking behaviour,drowsiness, fatigue and alcohol impairment adversely affects alertness, perception, judgment and reactions etc.), vehicle factors (component failues, system failures, poor maintenance etc.) and environment factor (traffic density, road geometry, road surface condition, weather, lighting, contrast and visibility, speed limit, traffic signs and control devices, and visual obstructions etc.).

• accident involving a lorry, a taxi and a car on 23/04/2020
• road bridge-in-north-italy-collapses-two-suffer-minor-injuries
• Fatal taxi fire in Seletar
• train derail accident by landslide
• Australian-train-derails-killing-two
• tain derail accident in Italy
• bridge collapse accident in Indonisia
• MRT tain fault - train disruption accident
• bus-catches-fire-in-road-accident-in-india-20-feared-dead
• fatal accident fortlift steel bar to lorry
• PMD fire incidents

Recently, UTC had published articles on accident investigation as follows:


• Click Effective failure analysis and accident investigation
"Improving quality and reliabity through effective failure analysis" was presented in Symposium on Materials Processing, Inspection and Testing held on August 24, 2017, Malaysia.


• "Forensic investigation on crane accidents" was published in International Journal on Forensic Engineering, Vol.3 No 4, 2017.


Click HERE to read the partial article.

Other relevant publications on failure analysis and forensic accident investigation:


• Accident investigation on cyclist motor vehicle collision
• Real-time accident detection investigation
• Road traffic accident investigation
• Investigation on taxicab crashes modeling
• Modelling braking behabiour of accident and probability
• Spatial analysis of traffic accidents
• Investigation on human errors on the occurrence of coastal ship accidents
• Analyzing fault and severity in pedestrian–motor vehicle accidents
• Investigation on crash Compatibility of Cars and Light Trucks
• Journal of Accident Analysis & Prevention