Gorski Consulting
Gorski Consulting is a forensic motor vehicle accident reconstruction firm offering expert analysis and opinion to the legal, insurance, and private plaintiff/defendant communities for the resolution of civil and criminal litigation issues.
Since 1980, Zygmunt Gorski, the principal of the firm, has worked in the safety research and accident reconstruction fields. He has provided reconstruction analysis and expert opinions and testimonies for hundreds of vehicle accidents.
Recent Posts
Traffic Speed Cameras – Do They Improve Safety?
It seems like a pointless question to most observers but do traffic speed cameras improve safety at the locations where they are installed? Traffic speed cameras should cause more drivers to travel at or below the speed limit at the locations where the cameras are...
Trump Reminds Me That Radicalization Can Exact A Heavy Price – An Editorial Comment
My eyes slowly opened from birth to the age of five, living in a very small village of western Poland. Then in 1960 my parents took four small children on a ship to Canada and never returned. My eyes have never witnessed the tremendous destruction that my parents, and...
Safety Technology That Fails Must Be Reported
It seems logical that, when a technology fails resulting in the crash of an airliner, there should be a public revelation of that fact. Three or five hundred deaths in one incident makes us aware of that importance. But what happens when a technology fails over a...
Bridge Abutment Impact By Tractor-Trailer on Hwy 401
While the large destruction caused by heavy truck impacts draws our attention, we fail to acknowledge the danger that truckers face when the roadway infrastructure is insufficient to protect them. The above photo uploaded on the OPP Twitter account shows two...
Another Life Lost on the Red Hill Valley Parkway in Hamilton Ontario
Numerous concerns have been expressed over the collisions along the Red Hill Valley Parkway (RHVP) in Hamilton, Ontario. It did not help that the City lost or hid an engineering report that showed the surface of the Parkway was substandard. Once this became public a...
Why are Vehicle Fires Not Reported In Ontario’s Official Collision Data Reports
We express sincere regrets when vehicle fires kill, but then we seem unable to acknowledge that regrets will not prevent the next incidence. Prevention must be preceded by objective analysis, such as documentation of the incidents and how and why they came to be. This...
Accountability To Public Required When A Missing Warning Sign Causes Collisions
How does an important warning sign go missing and, even though major collisions occur, this does not prompt municipal officials, police or news media to detect, publicize and correct the problem? The following discussion of several collisions is a smaller issue...
School Bus Fatal Collision – What If Children Were Aboard?
Receiving half the news, or not even that, is not helpful to anyone. Yet this is what the public receives whenever an important tragedy occurs. Such was the case when a full-size school bus was reportedly involved in a collision with a minivan on McNaught Line...
Can We Spare Enough Compassion To Help Alcohol-Addicted Drivers?
Deaths caused by impaired drivers are a difficult topic of discussion. In recent decades the understanding that alcoholism is an illness has changed. We now want to punish alcoholics because they continue to drink alcohol. This is easy to understand because of the...
An OPP Collision, Exchange of Gunfire and Death of Toddler – What Happened?
On November 26, 2020 news media reported that an "incident" occurred involving the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) and a 33-year-old male driver north east of Lindsay in the Kawartha Lakes region of southern Ontario. The reports indicated that there had been a...
Cycling Path Usage in London, Ontario
London Ontario, like many North American cities is working quickly at upgrading and expanding their network of cycling paths. However the City have installed these facilities in a piecemeal fashion. Some newer sections of the Thames Valley Parkway, a network of paths...
No Comments on Fatal Concrete Barrier Failure on Hwy 401 in Mississauga Ontario
Once again police and official news media have failed to inform the public about a deadly roadway failure that likely led to the death of two, and possibly three, road users in a collision that occurred on Highway 401 in Mississauga, Ontario yesterday. Not...