Motorcycle Accident Reconstruction & Lit
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Motorcycle Accident Reconstruction and Litigation, Fourth Edition with Hurt Report
Co-Authors: Kenneth S. Obenski PE, Paul F. Hill Esq., Eric S. Shapiro A.S.E., Jack C. Debes Ph.D. Contributors: Bernard S. Abrams DO, Leslie Weintraub OD
ISBN 10: 978-1-933264-32-5
ISBN 13: 978-1-933264-32-5
Copyright Date Ed: May 15, 2007
Pages: 380
Binding Information: casebound
Size: 8.5 X 11
Availability: In stock.
Price: $109.00
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Learn motorcycle accident reconstruction techniques from the experienced authors of this book. The special mechanics of riding a motorcycle and the way a motorcycle performs mechanically are explained in nontechnical terms. Quasi-motorcycles are compared and contrasted with standard motorcycles to acquaint the reader with their similarities and differences. Rider safety considerations and human factors issues such as conspicuity, evasive action, warning to the rider, and rider experience and ....
training are discussed in detail. Visual perception and injury biomechanics are given extensive coverage. A wide variety of motorcycle accidents are reconstructed and explained to illustrate the most useful, successful and often specialized techniques for reconstructing these accidents.
The legal aspects of motorcycle use are thoroughly covered, including helmet laws, negligence, laws governing accidents, accidents on public and private property, trespassing, warnings, roadway defects, motorcycle defects, injury to passengers, and Dram Shop liability in DUI cases. Case examples are included for each topic. These case studies have been revised, updated and expanded to include the most recent information.
This edition includes accident cause factors and identification of countermeasures, commonly known as "The Hurt Report," on CD-ROM. This important government study has never been repeated.
TOPICS INCLUDE:
- Mechanical aspects of motorcycles
- Motorcycle operations
- Quasi-motorcycles
- Accident investigation techniques and methods
- Collisions with backing, parked, stalled, disabled or slow vehicles
- Collisions with pedestrians
- Collisions with domestic and wild animals
- Collisions with moving vehicles
- Collisions at intersections
- Motorcycle and other vehicle meeting
- Motorcycle or driver overtaking
- Rider behavior and human factors issues
- Motorcycle injury biomechanics
- Visual perception and conspicuity
- Rider protection and safety
- Defects in public roads
- Defects on private land
- Warnings
- Helmets: compulsory use
- Helmets: negligence for not wearing
- Product liability
- Entrustment and supervision
- Passengers and negligence
- Release of liability when participating in motorcycle events
- Negligence of servers of alcohol in motorcycle DUI cases
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Reviews
Review Society of Automobile Engineers - February 10, 1995
This book is a must for all accident reconstructionists, engineers, attorneys, and the law enforcement professionals.
Reviews
Review The Legal Investigator - November 15, 1995
This is a book which the author has spent a lifetime researching-logging over 200,000 miles on his motorcycles, being involved as an expert in nearly two hundred motorcycle accidents. Anyone who anticipated being involved in any type of motorcycle litigation should have this book as part of their library. Do yourself a favor, if you have been involved, or if you are going to be involved, in litigation of this nature run out and buy this book. It is a steal for the price.
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Review Wing World - September 5, 1995
Amust-have for your cycling library . . . the information along with Obenski's down-to-earth writing style, combine to make this book attractive to serious motorcyclists.
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Review Science & Justice, The Forensic Science Society - January 5, 1996
. . . It should be of value to anyone involved in the investigation of motorcycle accidents.
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