Crash reconstruction isn’t complete without knowing how occupants move during a collision. This on-demand course gives you the knowledge and tools to make your analysis accurate, defensible, and backed by science.
You’ll start with the fundamentals—Newton’s Laws—and see how they apply to real-world crashes. Through detailed illustrations, crash tests, and case studies, you’ll learn how forces act on occupants during impact and how that affects seating positions, driver identification, ejection dynamics, and injury causation.
This course goes beyond just theory. You’ll observe real crash tests, analyze vehicle evidence, and review injury photos to understand how occupants interact with the vehicle interior during a crash.
Topics Include
- Newton's three laws
- Injuries – internal and external
- Newton's laws revealed
- Principle Direction of Force (PDOF)
- Rollovers
- Low speed impacts
- Low speed crash tests
- High speed crashes
- Motorcycle occupants
Audience
Law enforcement and private traffic crash investigators, claims adjusters, engineers, attorneys, safety officers, and military investigative personnel
Course Length
3 Hours
ACTAR Information
IPTM's Essentials of Occupant Kinematics (VoD) is eligible for 3 ACTAR CEUs.
Online Details
Online environment: Videos on Demand (VoDs) provide comprehensive, subject-specific information and must be viewed within 30 days upon registration. Once the 30-day period has ended, you may have limited access and be required to re-enroll. Additional fees may apply.
Computer requirements: You will complete the course entirely online. A dependable broadband internet connection with a Windows or Mac computer and Adobe Acrobat Reader (free download) are required.
This course is not eligible for certificate discounts.