Police eye tacho 'scope
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HE METROPOLITAN 'OLICE have revealed an nterest in the Kienzle nicroscopic evaluation of achograph charts to provide nore information about what iappens when an accident )ccurs.
Mr F. Streck, manager of {ienzle accident evaluation lepartment, spent four hours with the police during the 2ommercial Motor Show, ixplaining the system.
During this time, he was asked to evaluate the chart rrom a Czechoslovakian vehile which had been involved in an accident in the United Kingdom.
Such analysis is already accepted as evidence in German courts, Mr Streck told CM, not as evidence of guilt or innocence but as an aid to discovering what actually happened in the behaviour of the vehicle before the accident happened.
Examining charts under a binocular microscope, could establish the speed of the vehicle, the distance covered after the brakes were applied and the positive moment of impact. But he stressed that the tachograph must be properly calibrated in good working order and the chart and instrument must be a matched pair.