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
Vehicle Fire Warning Continues
Gorski Consulting has posted a number of warnings about the apparent increase in the numbers of fires occurring in motor vehicle collisions, or sometimes when vehicles are not even being driven. The latest incident on King Street in Toronto had significant...
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Arizona Concludes Median Barrier Less Safe Than No Barrier
An Assistant Director of Transportation for Arizona, Steve Boschen, believes Interstate I-10 near Tuscon "...is actually much safer without barriers". He states further: "If there is an incident, the vehicle has a better chance at stopping once it hits the dirt...
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Move Over Law Sometimes Creates Traffic Safety Problems
Moving over for stopped emergency vehicles can create rather than avoid traffic safety problems. A recent photo of the scene of a traffic collision on Highway 401 exemplifies one of the problems. The photo below shows that some vehicles have stopped on the right side...
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Unprotected Concrete Pillars – What Roadside Protection Is Warranted?
A recent fatal impact of an unprotected concrete pillar of the Highway 402 overpass at Glendon Road begs the question what kinds of roadside protections are warranted to prevent such tragedies. There are standards that exist in Roadside Design Manuals that are...
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Highway 401 Truck Median Cross-over Near Chatham – Did it Occur?
Scant information on social media sites indicates that a transport truck may have crossed through the high-tension median cable barrier of Highway 401 near Bloomfield Road, Chatham, yesterday, March 12, 2019. A photo posted by Matt Lajoie shows the damaged left front...
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Hwy 402 Fatal Impact of Unprotected Overpass Pillar – Review of Evidence
Police and news media have not discussed the details of how a female driver was fatally injured when her SUV struck an unprotected pillar of an overpass on Highway 402 at Glendon Drive. The following discussion will provide some of those details. It was reported that...
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Fatal Impact of Unprotected Overpass Pillar on Hwy 402 Near Glendon Drive
With a 2016 traffic volume of 21800 vehicles, why was the overpass pillar on Highway 402 at Glendon Drive not protected by a barrier when its impact resulted in a fatality earlier this morning? It is being reported that at approximately 0200 hours this morning an...
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Gentlemen, Start Your Computers!
The unnerving reality is that your new car is a computer on wheels. Do you have anti-virus protection? A March 7, 2019 article by Jim Motavalli of the New York Times entitled "Locking More Than the Doors as Cars Become Computers on Wheels", gives us an insight of what...
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Do we Move On, Until the Next Highway 401 Fatality, No Better Informed?
A fire and two collisions, one involving a fatality, that occurred on Highway 401 near Chatham, Ontario on March 4, 2019, have now been given some scant publicity by local news agencies. The Chatham Daily News newspaper has been the most prominent and the London Free...
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The Godfather Returns?
Why is it that we have this feeling about current politics of not waking up from some nightmare where the family of Don Vito Corleone has taken over?
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What is a Poor, Bumpy or Rough Road?
"Roll-Up-The-Rim" has a different meaning when, every spring, Ontario drivers pay thousands of dollars to replace rims damaged from striking roadway "potholes". The meaning conveyed to the public is that this is some kind of God-sent, but innocuous, plague that we can...
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Hiring of a Ford Friend And Firing of a OPP Deputy Commissioner is Just Plain Wrong
No matter how you spin the story, the notion that the OPP Commissioner should be a good friend of the Premier of Ontario is just wrong. Independence between the top of the Ontario's police and the top of the Ontario government must be a fundamental necessity for...
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