Forensic Aspects of Vision and Highway Safety, Revised Edition

Weintraub, Leslie,Ginsburg, Arthur,Abrams, Bernard S.,Allen, Merrill J.

ISBN 10: 0913875244 / ISBN 13: 9780913875247

Published by Lawyers & Judges Pub Co, 2000

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Forensic Aspects of Vision and Highway Safety, Revised Edition
• Publisher: Lawyers & Judges Pub Co
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0913875244
• ISBN 13: 9780913875247
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Acceptable

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Synopsis

This book will familiarize the interested attorney with the various components of total accident reconstruction and provide guidance about how to use the various experts available. You will gain not only an excellent overview of how visual reconstruction is done, but also will discover what evidence is critical, what questions are vital to ask, when to call the expert, what evidence will be needed, what kind of help can be expected, how to structure testimony, and a brief review of evidence presentation that has proved useful in making testimony and forensic displays more understandable.You will get a very valuable source of information for optometrists, highway engineers, automobile manufacturers, legislators, law enforcement personnel, expert witnesses, and others on the visual aspects of driving a motor vehicle.

About the Author

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.