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New loots for accident investigators
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The equipment being tested by the Transport Research Laboratory (TRL) on behalf of the Highways Agency includes the latest version of Total Station, an electronic version of a surveyor's theodolite. It can speed up the measurement distances and angles between vehicles involved in accidents.
Also being trialled is a 'photogrammetry' device made by EOS Systems which can take measurements from photographs of accident scenes.
Most expensive of all the new equipment is the 2100,000 laser scanner made by Austrian company Riegl. This was designed to be used by surveyors and engineering companies to check that projects have been built as the designs suggested they should be. Riegl says its use as a tool to analyse road accident scenes is an "unusual" idea but hopes it might provide another market for its product.
TRL has already proved the Riegel laser scanner's effectiveness when investigating rail accidents; this is the first time it has been tried in road accident analysis.
Simon Crowther, collision researcher at the TRL, says: "Although much of the equipment we are using here is not new, the application we are using it for is."