Accident Reconstruction

Lunch & Learn

Presented By: Colin Smith, PE, MSBE, ACTAR Senior Biomechanist/Accident Reconstructionist

Biography:

Colin P. Smith is a Forensic Biomechanist and an ACTAR-accredited Crash

Reconstructionist. He joined the YA Engineering Services team in 2022 and has

worked in the fields of forensic biomechanics and crash reconstruction consulting

beginning in 2018. Mr. Smith has conducted novel biomechanics research with the

University of Florida’s Musculoskeletal Biomechanics Lab and with a local medical

device start-up. Separately, he has contributed to both government- and industry sponsored

automotive safety research projects, including a project through the Center

for Injury Biomechanics and the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute in collaboration

with the Toyota Collaborative Safety Research Center to investigate crash

mechanisms. In these studies, he analyzed crash databases, EDR data, and

naturalistic driving data to develop a novel vehicle dynamics simulation and predict the

ultimate safety benefit of a theoretical ADAS. Some of his research findings have been

published in scientific journals and/or presented at national or international research

conferences.

Mr. Smith applies his knowledge and experience to assist his clients in their pursuit of

truth and justice. He reviews case evidence alongside reliable scientific literature and

data specific to the body’s biomechanical properties to aid in injury analyses, and he

may provide biomechanical analyses and opinions to assist the trier of fact in the

determination of injury causation. He also utilizes reliable crash reconstruction tools,

literature, and/or methods to perform extensive crash reconstruction analyses to a

reasonable degree of scientific certainty. He often conducts site and vehicle

inspections using drones, LIDAR scanners, and cameras to preserve, analyze, and

illustrate case evidence, and, when applicable, images vehicle EDRs and analyzes

resultant EDR data to provide an unequivocal perspective on crash severity, as well as

vehicle status and driver input during the moments preceding an event.

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