Forensic Aspects of Vision and Highway Safety

Written for attorneys, law enforcement personnel, optometrists, highway engineers, automobile manufacturers, legislators, expert witnesses, and other related professionals, this book will be your single-source reference for any lawsuit based on vision and highway safety. You are give an in-depth review of accident reconstruction as well information on the visual aspects of driving a motor vehicle. In addition, you learn how to make your forensic displays more comprehensible to the jury. Unfamiliar with medical jargon, an educated jury can make or break your case. Forensic Aspects of Vision and Highway Safety makes an informed jury a favorable jury. Extensively revised and rewritten, this book gives you new insight on horizontal gaze nystagmus, photochemical reaction/sunglare, camouflage/optical illusion, and photorealistic simulation.

Merrill J. Allen, O.D., Ph.D., Professor Emeritus of Optometry of Indiana University, School of Optometry, Bloomington, Indiana, has been involved in vision research and teaching since 1941. He has over 200 publications and nineteen awards to his credit. He has served as an expert witness in over 600 lawsuits.

Bernard S. Abrams, O.D., is the founder of the Institute of Vehicular Safety. Over the years, his interest in night vision and vehicular accidents was enhanced by his work in electro physiological testing of the night vision of the aged. In addition, he has lectured about vision on three continents, has designed and built optical factories in several countries.

Arthur P. Ginsburg, Ph.D., as founder and director of the Aviation Vision Laboratory at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Vistech Consultants Inc. and currently as director of Vision Sciences Research Corp., has worked extensively with pilots, astronauts and drivers under real and simulated visibility conditions to measure and demonstrate the effects of functional vision losses.

Leslie Weintraub, O.D., is a graduate of Cornell University School of Business and the University of Houston College of Optometry. She has practiced for seven years as a medical optometrist, with emphasis in pathology.