by Mike Barry | Oct 11, 2019 | News
Knowing what a typical pattern of damage in a head-on collision should look like can be useful in understanding what happened seconds before an impact. As I have measured damaged vehicles from hundreds of severe frontal impacts I have also created large scale diagrams...
by Mike Barry | Oct 6, 2019 | News
The fact that a driver was drunk seems to make all the difference in a vehicle fire. That would seem to be the case in a collision on Oxford Street at Guildwood Blvd in London yesterday evening, October 5, 2019. An unidentified passenger vehicle struck a lamp standard...
by Mike Barry | Oct 3, 2019 | News
Another fatality related to a post-collision fire has occurred this morning, October 3, 2019, on Simcoe Street just north of its intersection with Old Simcoe Road, north of Oshawa, Ontario. While police reported that this was a head-on collision it was not quite so. A...
by Mike Barry | Oct 3, 2019 | News
We must stop hiding fire deaths in collisions because this prevents action from being taken that might prevent future deaths. Another example of this problem relates to a head-on collision on Highway 406 at Glendale Ave near Thorold, Ontario.The OPP reported that a...
by Mike Barry | Sep 27, 2019 | Articles
A boy who used a GoPro camera to detect a submerged vehicle at an undisclosed location near Revelstoke British Columbia this summer has been praised for his detective work. Unfortunately the body of a female occupant was found in the vehicle and further investigation...