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
Additional Cyclist Speed Documentations on Trafalgar Bike Trail In London
The speed of cyclists on downgrades was previously reported in a Gorski Consulting article of October 8, 2018. That article examined three sites where substantial downgrades existed and it was demonstrated that cyclists generally coasted to high speeds. One of those...
One Bad Decision By One Driver Can Lead To Death of Many Innocent Others
We have seen the scenario depicted above on numerous occasions. A slow-moving heavy truck and an impatient driver. The consequences of an error in this scenario could be higher when the truck is a tanker loaded with explosive cargo. As shown below the pick-up driver...
Nine Motorcyclists Killed in 18 Days of May
Averaging at least one motorcyclist fatality every two days is not a good record. But that is the strange Ontario reality during the Covid-19 Pandemic in this month of May. The following list represents some of those killed although it may be not complete. On May 1st...
Tools Have Changed But Collision Reconstruction Still Dependent On Detail, Quality of Thought and Integrity
The caveman who worked harder at chiseling his stone into a smoother wheel was eventually rewarded with greater success. This idea has not changed in thousands of years, although the tools have. Motor vehicle collision reconstruction may have been in existence for one...
Public Deserves Honesty in Collision Reporting
Local news media have reported on an OPP new release claiming that Middlesex County Roads in the Province of Ontario are more dangerous and that fatalities are on the increase. Some of the reported statistics include the fact that in the past 10 years, 115 people died...
Evaluation of Speed Display Boards in School Zones in London Ontario
The functioning of speed display boards (SDBs) has been documented at two school zone sites in east London, Ontario.On September 3 and 6, 2019 observations were made on Tweedsmuir Ave in front of St Bernadette's Catholic Elementary School. On May 17 and 19, 2011 and...
Latest Site Where Covid-19 Effect Being Evaluated: Brydges Street in London, Ontario
From a traffic standpoint Covid-19 is changing how we behave on our roadways. Previous articles posted on this Gorski Consulting site have discussed lower traffic volumes, higher speeds and lower numbers of higher-severity collisions. These are dramatic changes, not...
Police Push-Bar Advantage in RCMP Stevenson Crash Clarified
In a May 3, 2020 article published by several CBC journalists about the head-on collision between Constable Stevenson and the mass murderer Gabriel Wortman in Nova Scotia, a substantially inaccurate quote from a road safety expert exaggerated the safety advantage of...
Ontario Expressway Collisions During Covid-19 Pandemic
In an article ("Overall Safety of Ontario's Expressways Hides Chronic Safety Problems") posted on the Gorski Consulting website on January 9, 2020, we listed 21 collisions that were reported by official news media which occurred on Ontario's expressways in...
Constable MacRae Helping Ducklings – A Message Beyond Simple Act of Kindness
That simple act of kindness portrayed by Constable MacRae of the Waterloo Regional Police sends a far larger message to us all. The Waterloo Regional Police uploaded three photos on their Twitter account showing the actions of one of their own Constables helping a...
Puzzling Road Safety Results During Pandemic
Covid-19 is a science experiment that no one wanted, but once it's over, we will ask some large questions about how it affected road safety and transportation in general. An article published by CP24 News in Toronto today reported that "Police report thousands fewer...
Updated Speed and Traffic Volume Comparisons Under Covid-19
New speeding and traffic volume data is available for westbound Highway 401 at the Graham Road interchange. In an article posted to the Gorski Consulting website on April 20, 2020, data was revealed showing a comparison between Covid-19 and pre-Covid-19 speeding and...