FORENSIC ASPECTS OF DRIVER PERCEPTION AND RESPONSE

Many accident cases come down to questions of what a driver could have or should have seen and/or how long it would take a driver to respond in an emergency situation. This book pulls together the available information on both these important subjects and presents it in a format useful to the reader who either wants to become generally informed or desires an answer to a specific question. This book has two sections: The first, dealing with driver perception, consists of seven chapters covering the general principles of vision and perception, visibility with motor vehicle headlamps, visibility with streetlighting, night photography, and methods of evaluation. The second section, dealing with driver perception response time, consists of two chapters covering basic perception-response situations and those with complicating factors.

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• Corporate Authors:

  Lawyers & Judges Publishing Company, Incorporated

  P.O. Box 30040
  Tucson, AZ  United States  85751-0040
• Authors:
  • Olson, P L
• Publication Date: 1996

Language

• English

Media Info

• Pagination: 225 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Automobile driving; Crash reconstruction; Disasters and emergency operations; Drivers; Emergency response time; Night; Perception; Reaction time; Visibility; Vision
• Uncontrolled Terms: Emergency response; Night driving
• Old TRIS Terms: Driver perception; Driver vision
• Subject Areas: Highways; Law; Safety and Human Factors; I83: Accidents and the Human Factor;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00719215
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 0913875228
• Files: TRIS, ATRI
• Created Date: Mar 15 1996 12:00AM