Motorcycle Accident Reconstruction Formulas . If the angle can not be determined a 45 angle will give a minimum estimate5Daily suggests that thetake-off angle for a rider who vaults over the hood of a vehicle will probably be 10 57 orless6. An operator cannot steer a motorcycle around corner by turning the front tire in the direction of the corner.
Motorcycles operated at roadway speeds remain upright largely as a function of gyroscopic forces created by spinning tires and wheels. The evaluation used data from crash experiments performed by the authors as well as published experimental data. Motorcycles speed is linear with the value of the vehicles maximum crush measurement.
If the angle can not be determined a 45 angle will give a minimum estimate5Daily suggests that thetake-off angle for a rider who vaults over the hood of a vehicle will probably be 10 57 orless6.
1 consider an automobile skids to a stop without impact leaving a measured length of skid of 90 D. In a motorcycle accident reconstruction it may be possible to establish the actual distance of ejected travel of the rider based upon location of ejection typically between the end of any tire skid marks and start of gouge marks on the roadway and location of bodily impact with the ground identified by helmet paint transfer andor identification of clothing fibers or body tissue on the roadway consistent with the. The article evaluates different formulas based on the principles of mechanics that are used to estimate a motorcycles pre-collision speed in motorcyle-to-vehicle crashes. The Drag factor was modified as follows.
