Services

Areas of Expertise

    • ● Forensic 3D Simulations & Animations
      • ◦ Crash recreations
      • ◦ Personal injury
      • ◦ Medical / Bio-Medical
      • ◦ Product liability
      • ◦ Environmental / Toxic-Tort
    • ● Highway crash reconstruction & analysis
      • ● Passenger vehicle, commercial truck/bus, motorcycle, pedestrian, bicycle
  • ● Event Data Recorders (EDR) & Heavy Vehicle Event Data Recorders (HVEDR)
  • ● Fleet telematics (GPS) data analysis
  • ● Mechanical inspections & system performance analysis
  • ● Commercial fleet operations, vehicle maintenance, and driver standards of care

Foundation

  • ● Experts qualified in state, criminal, federal, military courts
  • ● Continuing education and research and peer-reviewed published authors

Nighttime Car Underride Analysis

Vehicle Crush Analysis

Vehicle Restraints Analysis

Vehicle Light Bulb Analysis

Lighting Documentation

Accident Scene 3D Modeling

CCTV Camera Documentation and Analysis

FAA Part 107 Drone Operations

Simulations & Physics Based Animations

Crash Scene Documentation Services

● 24/7 Rapid response to major accidents
– Law Enforcement coordination on joint inspections, evidence preservation

● Accident scene documentation
– 3D scanning
– FAA 107 licensed commercial drone operations
– Scene canvassing for surveillance video

● Event Data Recorders/Heavy Vehicle Event Data Recorders
● Vehicle crush analysis to determine
– Impact speeds
– Closing speeds
– Delta-V
– Principal Direction of Force (PDOF)

● Accident reconstruction analysis
● Advanced simulation analysis
● Advanced demonstratives
– Physical model based simulations

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Motorcycle Crash Reconstruction

Our competition can reconstruct motorcycles crashes

Mecanica can:
● Reconstruct motorcycles crashes
● Evaluate motorcycle mechanical issues
● Perform test riding/crashing
● Identify ridership issues that may have contributed to the crash.
● Mecanica has two motorcyclist accident reconstructionists with a combined street riding experience of over 600,000 miles
● Our motorcycle reconstruction team has experience with street, track, and off-road riding

Motorcycle Dynamics Testing

Skid Testing For Locked Wheel Instability Performance

Slide Testing Deployment

40 MPH Swerve Test

● Pickup Truck Deployed Motorcycle Slide Testing
● Rider Steering/Swerve/Avoidance Testing
● Brake/Skid Testing
● Acceleration Testing
● ABS vs. Non-ABS/Stability Control/Intervention Systems Testing

Motorcycle Impact Speed Crash Testing

Dash/Action Camera Tracking & Object Tracking

Mecanica uses computational visual effects techniques to accurately determine:

● Speed & travel path of camera
● Speeds & travel paths of moving & stationary objects captured in the camera’s field of view
● Scene Evidence Location Rectification

Can be applied to dash cams, “GoPro” cameras, body cams, handheld cell phone videos, & surveillance cameras

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Camera Path & Lane Intruding Vehicle Tracked from Dash Camera Video

Heavy Vehicle Event Data Recorders (HVEDR)

Mecanica is one of four North American authorized service providers for Volvo and Mack data imaging.

Mobile Device Analysis (Cellebrite Tool)

Mobile Device Forensic Data Recovery & Analysis

● Universal Forensic Extraction Device
● Cell phones / tablets / mass storage devices
● GPS data history (position history)
● Phone call logs / Text message history
● Social messaging apps (WhatsApp, Kik, etc.)
● Digital photo and video recovery
● Incident-specific analysis (timeline)
● Analysis and incorporation with vehicle GPS based telematics data
● Incorporation into traditional crash reconstruction methodologies

Commercial Vehicle Operations

●Commercial Driver Standard of Care

  • – Hours of Service
  • – Commercial Driver Training
  • – Load Securement

● Mechanical Inspections, troubleshooting, and failure analysis

● Commercial Fleet Management Standard of Care

  • – Maintenance & Repair
  • – Fleet documentation compliance
  • – BIT Inspections

Mobile service truck capabilities for onsite inspections

Impact Alignment Analysis

Crash Testing & Research