Importance of dashboard camera (Dash Cam) analysis in fatal vehicle-pedestrian crash reconstruction.

ABSTRACT: The reconstruction of dynamic of traffic injuries remains a challenge in forensic pathology and is often based on circumstantial data. Dash Cams are digital video recorders which can be located inside a vehicle and continuously record the view through the windscreen, thus providing objective evidence. Here we present the case of a traffic crash in which a pedestrian was hit by an articulated lorry. The analysis of a video recorded from a Dash Cam retrieved inside the vehicle during the death scene investigation (DSI) was crucial in the reconstruction of the manner of death. Indeed, the death, which was initially assumed to be accidental, was finally deemed as a suicide on the basis of the video recording, which showed an intentional and sudden rush of the victim to the middle of the roadwa

SUBMITTER: Giovannini E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8413177 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature