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For a couple of 2013 pickups - Ford F150 and Dodge RAM 1500 - 1. Where are the airbag/impact sensors located? Are there diagrams available online? 2. Assuming an EDR is triggered by a near-deployment event, if the vehicle were then driven twice, each trip about 200-300 feet, would the event data be ...

Another small ABS tangent: On a front-weighted vehicle braking downhill on a mix of dry and damp pavement, if the front anti-lock brakes activate, is it a given the rear ones did, too? Or could the rear wheels have been braking normally? In either case, is there a braking efficiency factor that shou...

Would an erasure leaving a black mark still be visible the next day? And - Is there a commonly used textbook that shows what these things look like?

In a pedestrian accident, what color shoe scuff would be left on the road by a shoe with a bright red rubber sole? Could it be a black line? Could it be a cone-shaped "spray" of white lines? Or would it have to also be red?

Thank you for the reply! So a drag factor obtained on a road 40 miles away six months later should not be used as evidence in a trial? That makes sense, but is there an authoritative source, such as an SAE or other scholarly paper or article or textbook that could be cited for it?

When a reconstructionist uses an instrument like the Vericom to measure drag to obtain that factor for the skid speed formula, can the reconstructionist run the tests on a different road, that is, not the accident road? Months and miles away from the original accident? Does Vericom or other such oth...

That is, the pedestrian's body came to rest 65-75 feet behind the final rest position of the truck.

Hi, tried to post this last week, but I guess somehow it didn't cross the administrator's review. Here is my question again: Scenario: It is 2:00 or 2:30 am on an overcast, pitch-dark, heavily humid and misty-little bit of fog here and there night. The way is 19 ft-wide asphalt-paved rural road with...