Accident Information for Traffic Accident Reconstruction - The Role of the Automobile Lamp Filament

Automobile lamps of crushed cars are known to have many informations for accident reconstruction. This paper shows the kinds of the information and its problems. It discusses 2 major effects. One is the lamp filament-information: shape, color and adhesive materials. Especially, many representative filament deformations are shown with the collision situations. The other is the validity of those information for accident reconstruction.