BACKOVER PEDESTRIAN COLLISIONS: TECHNICAL AND LEGAL EVALUATION OF THE DRIVER’S ACTIONS

• Main Authors: Vladimir A. Gorodokin, Anna V. Kudryavtseva, Irina D. Alferova
• Format: Article
• Language: Russian
• Published: Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation, Russian Federal Centre of Forensic Science 2018-03-01
• Series: Теория и практика судебной экспертизы
• Subjects: traffic accident; reversing; vehicular accident reconstruction; traffic regulations
• Online Access: https://www.tipse.ru/jour/article/view/395

The article presents a detailed analysis of backover collisions, i.e. traffic accidents involving vehicles moving in reverse. The authors emphasize the lack of adequate methodological support for the investigation of these highly common types of incidents, as well as the misleading language of the Traffic Regulations that often leads to biased verdicts on the driver's fault.