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Site and Vehicle Examinations
If possible, call us immediately after an accident occurs so we can attend the crash site and document evidence before it is altered and destroyed. We can also provide examinations after vehicles are moved to a holding compound.
During examinations, we use still and video cameras to document evidence and measure the site to create a scale diagram. Any evidence found is secured for analysis. At the holding compound, vehicles are photographed and the location of collision evidence is measured along with the profile and magnitude of crush. The status and functioning of safety devices are documented – the Crash Data Retrieval toolkit is used to download crash data from air bag control
Accident Analysis
If required, we re-attend the collision site or vehicle for additional observations and analysis. At a collision site we may set up a roadway grid to document the speed, position, and specific behaviours of drivers – captured by video camera mounted to a 20-foot pole. The output displayed from a radar gun is videotaped to assess the likely speed of typical vehicles, which is used as a reference toward estimating the actions of an accident-involved driver.
We re-create night time accident scenarios using similar vehicles and lighting conditions. Police assistance may be used to close a road segment or natural reactions are obtained without a driver’s awareness of the testing.
NASS
The National Automotive Sampling System (NASS), a division of the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), is an invaluable database to those in the insurance and legal industries.
The Crashworthiness Data System (CDS) of NASS keeps data on thousands of crashes. Research teams at Primary Sampling Units across the country study 5,000 crashes annually. Skid marks, fluid spills, broken glass, and bent guardrails are studied at crash sites. Vehicles are then located to be photographed, measured, and to identify the interior locations struck by occupants. Researchers then interview crash victims and review medical records to determine the nature and severity of injuries.
There are more than 140,000 crash files in the NASS CDS. Although they are designed for analysis with a specialized statistical analysis package, analysis can also be conducted simply by going to the Web site and selecting a list of cases meeting specified criteria.
Recent Posts
No Pretty Way To Discuss Someone Being Burned Alive – So Our Response Is To Hide It
On October 2, 2020, Highbury Ave, the normally busy highway between London and St Thomas Ontario was shut down as a result of a "head-on" collision which eventually resulted in a reported fatality. The fatality was a bit more than personal. It led to a young woman...
Politics and Corruption Mean Likely Failure of Canadian Vision Zero
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Gorski Slowly Returning To Active Duty
Not only was the Gorski Consulting website recently hacked but regrettably I was informed that I would need surgery. This occurred last week and I am slowly recovering. I've had some thoughts in passing. Many years have passed by in the wink of an eye much like...
Proper Investigation Requires Inquiry Whether A Rare Event Has Occurred
If one only needed to draw conclusions about obvious matters collision reconstruction would be an easy process. Many reconstructions are generated in this fashion where an investigator only finds obvious things and nothing needs to be done beyond the obvious. The...
List of Gorski Consulting Website Articles (Temporarily) Lost Due to Hacking
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Ford Apologizes for not Recording Your Crash Data
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Zygmunt M. Gorski Receives Lifetime Membership in Society of Automotive Engineers
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Cyclist Handlebar Impact – Examples from Real-Life Collisions
This article has been necessitated due to internet Twitter discussions about a recent photo posted by Gorski Consulting warning cyclists of a specific injury mechanism. The above photo was a Twitter post sent while the Gorski Consulting website was down and Covid...
Patiently Awaiting Info on Gorski Consulting Website Hack
No new postings have been made to the Gorski Consulting website as we attempt to gain information whether previous postings have been permanently lost from the suspected hack in early January, 2022. All postings since June, 2021 have disappeared from the website...
Early Indications Are That Gorski Consulting Website Was Hacked – But Now Up and Running
The Gorski Consulting website has now been revived. Some digging is being conducted but early indications are that the site was hacked. At this time it looks like all articles on the site have been lost from approximately mid-June, 2021. Fortunately most of these...
Additional Safety Problems At Thames Valley Parkway Near Trafalgar Street
It needs to be emphasized that the segment of the Thames Valley Parkway (TVP) south of Trafalgar Street in London, Ontario has been poorly designed and has created several safety problems. We will review some historical background before focusing on the latest...
Final Results From Gorski Consulting Cyclist Counts For Velo
During the week of June 1-6, 2021, volunteers across Canada were involved in counting cyclists in their cities, towns and regions. As part of its testing and research activities Gorski Consulting has been involved in a various traffic documentation procedures over the...
Short-Sighted Effort to Conceal Cause of Motorist Fatality
We expect mysterious deaths to occur in totalitarian regimes like Nazi Germany or the Stalinist Soviet Union. We should not expect it in democracies like Canada. But that is what happens when police, news media and other officials work together to hide the cause of a...
Four Pedestrian Fatality Collision on Hyde Park Road in London Ontario – Further Evidence From the Site
(Updated: 1315 hours, June 8, 2021) A southbound vehicle struck a family of five pedestrians, killing 4, on Hyde Park Road and South Carriage Road in London, Ontario on June 6, 2021. Our examination of the collision site occurred only a couple of hours after it was...
Intended Murder of Muslim Pedestrians in London Ontario – Site Evidence Alone Cannot Confirm Intentions
(Updated: 1310 hours, June 8, 2021) Four pedestrians were killed yesterday, June 6, 2021 in London, Ontario when a southbound vehicle struck a group of pedestrians on Hyde Park Road at its intersection with South Carriage Road. Having just completed an examination of...
Hours of Cyclist Counts Performed By Gorski Consulting During Week of Velo Cycling Count
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Results From Velo Cycle-Counting Session on Hale Street in London, Ontario
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Gorski Consulting Participates in Velo Cycling Counts
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Speed Bump Aggressiveness As Part of Collision Cause Analysis
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Cause of Deaths in Recent Collision Fires Not Revealed
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Better Collision Information Combats Speculation – A Simple Recipe
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Strange OPP Twitter Message Regarding Fatal QEW Rear-End Impact
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Final Results From School Bus Motion Testing
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Preliminary Comparison of Full Size School Bus Motions To Other Vehicles
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GMC 18-Passenger School Bus Testing on Wellington Road in London Ontario
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Testing of School Bus Response to Irregular Road Surface Conditions
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Cyclist Observations – 8 Year Study in London Ontario
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Skating to Church in a Pine Box
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Gender of Cyclists Observed on Streets in London Ontario
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Detailed Collision Data Needed To Understand Risk Of Unusual Roadway Behaviours
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Is That A Garbage Bag Lying On The Road?
If you observed this view for 1 or 2 seconds would you correctly identify the object in the road? Hindsight causes many to judge the actions of a driver based on what they know after a collision has occurred.
Cause of Collisions Is Often Not Correctly Detected
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Walking With Your Back to Traffic – Why Is It OK If You’re A Cyclist?
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A Lot of Useful Lessons Could Be Learned From Tiger Woods’ Collision – But They Won’t Be
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Zygmunt Gorski Gives Virtual Presentation to American Academy of Forensic Science
Sometimes evidence that may be uncommon can break open a case if an investigator/analyst understands that evidence. That was the message given to members of the American Academy of Forensic Science (AAFS) in a presentation given by Zygmunt Gorski at its annual meeting...
Is London Ontario Prepared for More Cyclists?
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Death By Vehicle Impalement And The Silence That Enables It
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Preventing the Public from Knowing How & Why A Death Occurred at Hanna Public School Grounds in Sarnia
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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
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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?
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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
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Dangerous LED Traffic Signals Covered By Snow Cause Vehicles to Pass Through a Red Light
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Disturbing Fire & Deaths in Crash on Hwy 427 In Toronto
The lack of useful news regarding the death of two occupants in a fiery collision on Saturday evening, November 14, 2020, should be disturbing to anyone concerned about public safety. Yet this comes on, November 15th, that is internationally marked as a day of...
Expressway Rear-End Impacts Need Better Evaluations
In a December 16, 2018 article posted to the Gorski Consulting website the results of observations of tail-gating vehicles on Highway 401 were shown from videotaping sessions at four different sites. Without funding or additional help it was not possible to analyse...
“Construction Carnage Alley” And Other Median Barrier Issues on Hwy 401
While it is good news that the Ontario government announced the first phase of construction on a median barrier in Highway 401's "Carnage Alley" the news may not be all good. The flip side of this news is that construction will mean additional deaths if the Province...
One Thousand Observations of Responses To Roadway Traffic Signals
Gorski Consulting has been involved in a two-year study of driver reactions to the activation of a green traffic signal. In that time 1010 observations were made, predominantly in the City of London, Ontario, Canada. The observations were made using a dash camera that...
Death of Cycling Professor – Final Results & Conclusions
This is the final in a series of four articles dealing with the death of a retired professor who died when attempting to cycle across Gainsborough Road in London, Ontario on September 5, 2020. Data has been collected to document the volume and speed motor vehicles,...
Death of Cycling Professor – Part III – Further Results
This is the third article in a series of four, that discusses the findings of Gorski Consulting related to an examination of the site on Gainsborough Road in London, Ontario where a retired professor was killed when using a multi-use cycling path. The previous two...
Did A Young Mother Die In A Vehicle Fire? We Must Know
Everyone is devastated when a young life is lost due to the actions of an impaired driver. And we want to prevent its recurrence. Why does that same concern not apply to post collision fires? News media reported that yesterday, October 3, 2020, a head-on collision...
Silence About Post-Collision Fires
While the OPP are helpful in submitting basic photos of the collision sites they investigate, there is an apparent lack of information provided by all police forces regarding the large number of post-collision fires that are occurring in the region. In the example...
Death of Cycling Professor – Part II – Further Results
Updated results are shown in this second article dealing with the death of a retired professor who was struck and killed while cycling across Gainsborough Road in London, Ontario, Canada. The collision occurred on September 5th and a safety study of the site was...
Death of Cycling Professor Leads To Study of Collision Site Safety
The death of a cyclist on September 5, 2020 along with concerns expressed by residents prompted Gorski Consulting to attend the site of the collision on September 13, 2020, at the intersection of a multi-use bike path and Gainsborough Road on the western outskirts of...
Poor Explanation of Double-Fatal Collision In Perth County Ontario
It cannot be sufficient to provide confusing information about a double-fatal collision because the death of any member of the public needs to be reliably explained. Persons die mysteriously in unexplained ways in unlawful countries where dictators rule and mobs roam....
Harpooned Vehicle – Disappointing Response by Police & News Media
The best that can be said about police actions is that they posted photos of a harpooned vehicle so that the public could consider the consequences. Only a couple of news agencies picked up on the story, as if it was of minimal importance. Nipissing West OPP reported...
Cyclist Death In West London Demonstrates Safety of Path System Has Long Way To Go
Official news media reported that a 77-year-old cyclist was killed when he was struck by a pick-up truck as he tried to cross Gainsborough Road in west London, Ontario on Saturday, September 5, 2020. The view available to the pick-up truck driver is shown in the above...
Zipper Merge Signs at Highbury Ave Construction Zone – Are They Effective?
The City of London Ontario has put up some interesting "Zipper Merge" signs in the construction zone on Highbury Ave. The signs are supposed to encourage drivers to use a "zipper merge" technique that, so far, has been ignored by Ontario drivers. Below is a frame...
Cyclist Critical Injuries on Path Illustrates Need For Proper Design & Maintenance
Two cyclists reportedly collided in a bike trail near Lakeshore (east of Windsor), Ontario on September 1, 2020, resulting in life-threatening injuries to one of them. Examination of the site on Google Maps indicates that it contains a severe lack of visibility around...
Wakaw Saskatchewan Fatal Collision Driver Wants Answers That Gorski Consulting Cannot Provide
Jeff Helperl is a fortunate, unfortunate driver who survived the collision shown above where a transport truck reportedly rear-ended a line of stopped vehicles in a construction zone on Highway 41 near Wakaw Saskatchewan on August 25, 2020. He sent the above photo,...
George Floyd & Masai Ujiri Demonstrate Just How Much Objective Evidence Matters
Objective evidence is a huge equalizer to achieving justice, not just in assessment of motor vehicle collisions but in far wider circles. Can we imagine what the situation would have been like if there was no one to videotape the murder of George Floyd? Or even the...
Speed Can Be Irrelevant In Injury Causation
While the title of this article sounds completely wrong it is an important lesson to understand why it is mostly right. It is never convenient to discuss the results of real-life motor vehicle tragedies because they always involve real people. Yet a failure to educate...
Tanker Truck Through Guardrail Shows Inadequacy of Roadside Barriers
On Friday, August 14, 2020 the OPP Twitter account informed the public of the closure of Hwy 401 west of Kingston, Ontario due to a collision involving a tanker truck which had spilt liquid tar into a creek. Photos were attached with the notification, the one shown...
After Questioning of Bomb Report Police Admit it Was a Fire
There may be legitimate reasons why police are not forthcoming with further information on the fatal "explosion" that killed a man in a car in front of the Kitchener-Waterloo courthouse on Friday, August 14th, 2020. In an article posted to the Gorski Consulting...
Was it a Death of a Bomber or a Simple Car Fire?
We can swallow what we are told fully and completely or we can critically evaluate what we are told. Such is our intent is commenting on the reported explosion of a car in front of the Kitchener courthouse on Duke Street yesterday. The site photos show the exploded...
Nothing Learned or Changed At Anniversary of Massive Explosion in London Ontario
Yes there was a great deal of excitement when a good portion of the Woodman Ave block exploded in London, Ontario on August 15, 2019. The story made national headlines for several days. But what changes did it bring? We know the incident started when an impaired...
Wheel Separation Fatality on Hwy 401 Demonstrates Randomness of Death
A 24-year-old driver was killed today, August 12th, when a wheel separated from a trailer and crashed into the windshield of his van on Highway 401 between McCowan and Markham Roads near Toronto. Although a tarp was placed over the windshield and roof areas the extent...
Traffic Conflicts in An Expressway Construction Zone
Further analysis and discussion has been provided in a new Gorski consulting article entitled "Traffic Conflicts In An Expressway Construction Zone". This is in addition to a previous article posted on the Gorski Consulting website on July 17, 2020 entitled "Trench...
Vehicular Drownings in Region of Chatham-Kent And Essex Counties
On the evening of July 27, 2020 a vehicle carrying three children travelled off the gravel surface of Jacob Road in Chatham-Kent Ontario. The vehicle came to rest upside down in a water channel adjacent to the road. While the driver managed to retrieve two of the...
Multiple Bus Fatalities While Canada Continues Its Mushroom Cultivation
Multiple bus fatalities have once again dominated Canada's headlines yet we have learned nothing from any previous catastrophe. The latest tragedy reportedly occurred yesterday, July 18, 2020, on Highway 93 at the Columbia Icefield between Banff and Jasper national...
Typo Correction: “1122 Vehicles” Was likely “112” Vehicles
The perils of publishing. For those who have been examining our April 11, 2020 article "COVID-19 Effects on Highbury Ave Traffic - Review & Discussion of Data", a typo error was discovered regarding the testing of November 7, 2019 on Highbury Ave at...
Trench Warfare in the Expressway Construction Zone
We have all seen it. The battles of the expressway construction zone. But rarely do we discuss it. The battles and dangers that exist in the line-ups approaching construction zones on high-speed expressways are something that is rarely discussed or detailed. As part...
Fires In Vehicle Collisions Continue To Be An Ignored Road Safety Problem
Do vehicle fires represent a growing safety problem when vehicles collide? Not only is an answer unavailable but the question is not being asked. This despite an alarming number of vehicle fires that keep occurring during collisions. The most recent vehicle fire...
Speed Is Not What Killed 3 Audi Passengers In Edmonton Crash
Speed likely contributed to a loss-of-control of the Audi but it was the "Can-Opener" separation of its structure that was likely a major factor in the deaths of three of its occupants in a July 3, 2020 Edmonton Alberta crash. The results of vast numbers of controlled...
High Speed Rollover on Williams Parkway in Brampton Can Be Educational
A seemingly spectacular video clip has been shown of a car going out of control on Williams Parkway in Brampton, Ontario, crashing through a roadside fence, rolling over multiple times and striking a parked car. The best that can be said is that no one was killed,...
Is Speeding In Toronto OK If You Are Rich?
Starting on July 6th no demerit points will be added if you are caught by Toronto's speed cameras, only a fine will apply. So If you are the owner of a Ferrari and you have some wealth, will you care if you have to pay a $600 fine? Likely not. But the owner of a...
Results From Bicycle Speed Observations on Trafalgar Road Path
On June 2, 2020 Gorski Consulting conducted multiple-video camera documentations of northbound cyclists travelling along the City of London multi-use path approaching the underpass at Trafalgar Road. Video analysis has now been completed and the results have been...
Observations From Mother & 3-Child Fatal Collision in Brampton
The following are some preliminary observations from the tragic death of a family at the intersection of Countryside Drive and Torbram Road in Brampton yesterday afternoon. It was reported that an eastbound Infiniti, being driven by a 20-year-old male, on Countryside...
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...
Four Police Deaths From Speed Enforcement Stop Is A Wake Up Call
Catching speeders during the Covid-19 pandemic can be more dangerous to police stopped on the highway. This observation is re-enforced from the tragic news of four police officers who were struck and killed on the Eastern Freeway near Kew in Victoria Australia two...
Preliminary Speeding Data for Hwy 401 at Graham Road Near West Lorne Ontario
At least 16.7% of unobstructed, non-trucks travelling in the fast lane on Highway 401 at Graham Road were travelling over 130 km/h. This observation was made as part of a preliminary analysis of a two hour videotaping session designed to explore the effects of the...
New Video Documentation on Highway 401 at Graham Road
The effect of the Covid-19 pandemic on traffic characteristics was documented yesterday, April 20, 2020, on HIghway 401 at Graham Road near West Lorne, Ontario. This documentation is subsequent to an article posted on the Gorski Consulting website showing the effects...
Speed and Traffic Volume Comparisons Under Covid-19
A recent Global News article indicated that a City of Toronto news release indicated that there has been "...a 35 per cent increase in speeding tickets and an almost 200 per cent jump in stunt driving incidents compared to the same time last year". Other news agencies...
Why is the Trumpet Section Impossible to Play With?
We're all entrapped in our own homes. I understand that. But why should a band come marching through my neighbourhood and force me to listen to what they play? An irritating conductor with no sense of rhythm who loves trumpets above all else is in town. He has...
What Was The Launch Speed Of This Polish Rocket?
This photo is (apparently) not a gimmick. It is the actual trajectory of a polish car that was recreated by a collision reconstructionist from a short video clip taken by bystander yesterday. The car reportedly struck a tree on the far side of the roundabout and then...
Day-Dreaming Lessons on the Highway
I get on the highway and, as luck would go, I end up behind a vehicle doing barely the speed limit, on rare occasions, but mostly and unmercifully below. The road is hilly and curved and unsafe to pass. I think to myself "What the hell, what are you doing?". The...
Highway 401 Truck Barrier Impact Is Not A Success Story
The fact that only minor injuries occurred may seem like a success story, but this is just Russian Roulette. A tractor-trailer struck a construction barrier, rolled over and caught fire on Highway 401 near Winston Churchill Blvd in Mississauga in the afternoon of...
COVID-19 Effects on Highbury Ave Traffic – Review & Discussion of Data
This article reports on the comparison between traffic prior to the effects of COVID-19 versus after those effects on the Highbury Ave expressway near Commissioners Road in London, Ontario. Data is now available from testing conducted on November 20, 2019 and April 7,...
COVID-19 Effects on Highbury Ave Traffic in London Ontario
Traffic on Highbury Ave videotaped on November 20, 2019 has been compared with a similar videotaping session on April 7, 2020. This work is being done for a number of reasons. But the obvious fact is that traffic volume has been reduced due to the effects of the...
COVID-19 Virus Effects on Traffic on Clarke Road in London Ontario
Traffic volume reductions on Clarke Road in north-eastern London, Ontario continue to demonstrate the effect that the Corona Virus has on the functioning of our society. This site has been monitored for the past 10 years and a number of articles have been posted on...
COVID-19 Virus Effects on Highway 401 Traffic in South-Western Ontario
Gorski Consulting has collected data regarding the change in volume and composition of traffic on Highway 401 since the COVID-19 pandemic has taken effect. In the fall of 2018 Gorski Consulting conducted a number of 2-hour, videotaping sessions along Highway 401...
Hwy 404 Fatal Impact of Bridge Pillar Should Not Occur
The superior design of expressways such as Highway 404 in Toronto should not result in a fatal impact to a bridge pillar. Yet, from the scant description provided by the OPP on their Twitter account this is what reportedly occurred. The collision likely occurred in...
Results From 560 Observations of Urban Traffic Signal Responses
Gorski Consulting has now completed the documentation of 560 instances of driver response to a red signal turning green at numerous intersections throughout London, Ontario. A dashcam was used in a vehicle that was positioned behind the drivers who were stopped at a...
A Head-on Collision In Huron County – A Review
Although the most severe, head-on collisions also provide the greatest opportunity to use the structure of vehicles in riding down the destructive forces of that impact. This was clearly shown in the OPP photo shown above, relating to a serious head-on that occurred...
Desolate Corona-Virus Highways Could Be Relief For Safety But Not Good News
It is hard to have traffic fatalities when there is no traffic. This may be what is in store in the short term as the Corona virus turns society on its head. A domino effect can be initiated when the Corona virus response causes large numbers of businesses and events...
Pandemic Puts Road Safety News In Last Place
If this were a horse race, all would be losers except Pandemic, the horse who came from behind quick, and from nowhere. Unfortunately this is not a horse race, a test drill, or a Hollywood script. It's the real thing. Hopefully, in a year or two we will look at these...
Preliminary Data on Reactions to Traffic Signals
Some preliminary results are available from our documentation of driver's reactions to the change of a traffic signal from red to green. This data is for the year 2018 and includes 174 observations. The analysis involves examining the videotape of scenarios such as...
Do You React To A Traffic Signal Like You Do To An Impending Impact?
Do you respond to an impending collision in the same way as you respond to a traffic signal? That question is being examined through research by Gorski Consulting. In the past fews years vehicles stopped at traffic signals have been videotaped with a dash camera in...
Unexplained Frontal Crush to OPP SUV in Unidentified Collision
Unusual things happen, but explanations would help. How does an unoccupied OPP SUV sustain major frontal damage with no injury to the occupants of the opposing vehicle? Firstly, the front ends of OPP SUVs are very stiff. Something like a Ford Explorer that may be...
Transport Truck Collisions In Winter: A Demonstration of Expressway Safety Problems
Poor weather, large numbers of heavy trucks and a lack of safety education are a toxic mix on Ontario's expressways. This has been made apparent again when a winter storm passed through southern Ontario in the past couple of days. Police posted warnings before the...
Failures at Hwy 403 Median Cross-over Collision Near Brantford
Officially, the cause of a loss-of-control, median cross-over collision on Highway 403 near Brantford yesterday is claimed to be unknown. But certain facts point to failures and possible causes. Without official presence during the investigation it is difficult to...
A Focus Beyond Lucky Results In Potential Vehicular Drownings
Whenever a vehicle enters a body of water the consequences can be deadly. Especially in winter conditions. Such a result requires an investigation into how and why the vehicle got there in the first place. The OPP West Region Twitter account recently posted the...
High Publicity Crashes in London Neighbourhoods – What Does The Public Know About Them?
High publicity crashes in quiet neighbourhoods of London, Ontario create many uninformed conversations "around the dinner table". But rarely is enough information available for the public to develop an informed opinion as to causes or what needs to be changed or...
Red Hill Valley Parkway Judicial Inquiry – Rejection of Participants, What Next?
A judicial inquiry is underway in Hamilton, Ontario with respect to the circumstances regarding a technical report that became "lost" and then was subsequently "found". This technical report was prepared for the City of Hamilton and contained test results performed by...
Actions and Inactions Have Consequences
One of the greatest blessings bestowed on our earthly world is that the actions of fools bear consequences.
Road Condition Data Available for Westbound Hwy 401 – Woodstock to London
In a February 5, 2020 news article data was presented from testing conducted along Westbound Highway 403 from Hamilton's Lincoln Alexander Parkway to Highway 401 at Woodstock. Since then additional analysis has been completed from testing on Westbound Highway 401...
Testing Shows Safety Difference In Ontario’s Expressways
Gorski Consulting has been continuing to document the conditions of road surfaces on Ontario's roads and highways. In recent studies data has been obtained describing the condition of Ontario's expressways. The results of previous testing have been presented on the...
Truck Pushing Car on Hwy 401 – A Missed Educational Opportunity
No one will know why police have charged a truck driver who dragged a passenger car along Highway 401 after a video posted on social media brought attention to the January 13, 2020 incident. It is easy to make the judgment of the truck driver's road rage or his...
A Formal European Garden? What Do We Wish To See?
Today, January 27th, has been marked by the United Nations as the international remembrance day commemorating the liberation of the remaining victims of the most notorious Nazi murder camp of WWII in southern Poland. After an unspeakable life of surviving WWII my...
Confusing Numbers in OPP Enforcement Blitz on Hwy 401 West of London
In late January, 2020, the OPP conducted a "Commercial Motor Vehicle Enforcement" blitz near London, Ontario. Although the exact number of police personnel involved in the blitz is unknown it was reported that officers from Chatham-Kent, Elgin, Middlesex, Oxford,...
School Bus Fire in Cornwall Ontario – Why Has No One Asked How & Why It Started?
The school bus driver was a hero for saving 7 students - But why is there no publicity for how and why the bus caught fire? This is a common question we ask at Gorski Consulting yet no one else wishes to ask the same question. It has been reported that on the...
Fire Truck Strikes Child in Crosswalk – What Should Be Emergency Personnel Responsibilities?
Sometimes in our haste to save a life, we take a life. That is a tragedy that we need to avoid. But regrettably this happens too often. Sometimes while responding to an emergency police, fire or ambulance personnel may themselves become involved in a collision and...
Critical Injuries From Impact of Bus Shelter? Something Does Not Make Sense.
Those responsible for keeping us safe are failing in their duties when a driver sustains critical injuries from impacting a flimsy bus shelter and no explanation is provided. There is no structure to a bus shelter that could cause a vehicle to decelerate in the manner...
Do We Ignore Speed Advisory Signs? – More Results
Three days ago Gorski Consulting posted results from videotaped observations of vehicles passing through a curve in the fall of 2009. Those results showed that the average speed of vehicles passing through the curve was 75.2 km/h, or over 15 km/h higher than the...
Video of Salting/Sanding Truck Dragging Car – Further Explanation
There could be a simple explanation why a video showed a salting/sanding truck pushing a car into a guardrail in Toronto. As the truck driver explained, he was attempting to steer into the right lane and did not observe the car. If the car was located at his right...
Salting Truck Dragging Car on Hwy 401 – What Does the Video Mean?
Social media outrage has clogged the internet upon the release of a short video showing a sanding truck pushing a car into a guardrail on Highway 401. Police reported they were not aware of the incident but since then they confirm that it occurred on January 13, 2020...
Do We Ignore Speed Advisory Signs?
Governments spend money to post various warning signs on highways but do drivers heed these warnings? It would seem to be a waste of money if these signs were ignored. Gorski Consulting has conducted testing that reveals some interesting results. In 2009 Gorski...
Red Hill Valley Parkway Inquiry – Will Taxpayers Receive Official Standing?
The starter's pistol has been fired into the proceedings of the Red Hill Valley Parkway fiasco that will plague the City of Hamilton for a number of years into the future. Presently officials are arguing over who can line up at the starting line, allowing them to give...
Windsor Bridge Completion & Complications From Expected Increase in Truck Traffic On Highway 401
Highway 401 in Southern Ontario is slated for widening between Tilbury and London from 4-lanes to 6-lanes. In a recent Windsor Star article Chatham-Kent-Leamington Provincial Parliament representative, MPP Rick Nicholls was quoted as saying "“My concern is that we...
Overall Safety of Ontario’s Expressways Hides Chronic Safety Problems
In comparison to 2-lane, rural highways Ontario's expressways have always been a safer mode of travel. However, because of higher traffic volumes, the number of reported serious and fatal collisions is higher on Ontario's expressways. Such statistics produced by...
City of Ottawa Officially Admits Its Failures in Multi-Fatal Bus Crash
We will likely never know what the City of Ottawa did to cause the multi-fatal bus crash of January 11, 2019. By accepting it was liable for the bus crash at its Westboro station Ottawa can be assured that much of the details of its actions will never be released to...
Silence About Sudbury-Area Child Collision Deaths Enables Future Tragedies
The cause of the deaths of three children in a single vehicle crash near Sudbury Ontario continues to be kept secret. What is known is that the dead children, aged 11, 10 and 6 were accompanied by a fourth child, aged 10, who sustained "undisclosed, life-threatening...
Three Children Perish Near Sudbury Ontario Without Explanation
Granted, the OPP released just a single photo of the collision-involved vehicle in which three children perished (shown above) in a collision near Sudbury on January 1, 2020 when the vehicle reportedly struck a rock cut. And a single photo can be very misleading. But...
Racism Prejudice and Discrimination – Make Them Homeless in 2020
This holiday season, celebrate your making racism, prejudice and discrimination homeless. Make them have no place to sleep, nor food to eat, nor encouraging words to grow. And give a warm and helping hand to the poor, mentally challenged and victims of misfortune who...
Propane Tanker Rollover Due to Road Bump Rarely Publicly Admitted
It is one of those things we do not talk about in public. Road bumps cannot cause collisions. At least not publicly. Yet the Kingston Whig Standard was willing to report to the public that, according to the driver of a propane tanker truck, this is exactly what caused...
Deceased Found Inside Pick-up Truck – Expertise in Aging of Evidence Needed
Wellington OPP report that they need to know the "time" when a collision occurred on the Woolwich-Guelph Town Line and Lerch Road.This might help in identifying the deceased found the Black Pick-up truck that was reportedly found "deep" within some trees. The OPP...
Bus in Hong Kong Tripped Over Low Barrier & Into Tree on Road Edge
Those who understand road safety issues can focus the public's attention to issues that may not be readily apparent. That was the case in the latest, multi-fatal, double-decker bus crash in Hong Kong yesterday that killed 6 passengers. It did not take long for...
How Effective is Re-Paving In Improving Poor Road Conditions?
Poor road conditions can lead to collisions. But what is a poor road condition? Gorski Consulting has been conducting testing on various roads in Southern Ontario to provide an answer to that question. Recently a roadway that contained some of the worst conditions was...
Your Child (And Puppy) Could Die From Lap-Belt Induced Abdominal Injuries
Undoubtedly Peel Regional Police meant well when they posted the above photo with a caption indicating "Seat belts dramatically reduce risk of death and serious injury among drivers and front-seat passengers". While the puppy photo is cute it fails to highlight the...
Vehicle Drowning in Peterborough? No One Knows
How much confidence is given when police search for a submerged vehicle and find a second one? Where did this second vehicle come from? Was there an unreported drowning? The OPP reported on Thursday, December 12, 2019 that they attended the Otonabee River on Monaghan...
Another Rear-End Impact of TTC Bus and No Information Available
We should be thankful to Global News for posting two photos of a school bus that rear-ended a TTC bus in Toronto because no one else publicized this important incident. Unfortunately we cannot show these photos here. There has been an increase in concern over bus...
Fatal Rear-End Impact of Mississauga Transit Bus – Issues Need Explanation
Informing the public about deadly dangers must be an unquestioned responsibility of those who have exclusive information about those dangers. That responsibility was needed in the latest fatal collision on Derry Road in Mississauga, Ontario when a passenger car...
School Bus Collision West of Smoky Lake Alberta Reminiscent of Humboldt Broncos
A bus crash near Smoky Lake Alberta this week brings back memories of the Humboldt Broncos crash. Looking at the two crash site photos (above) there is an eerie similarity with respect to the final rest positions of the vehicles. In the Smoky Lake case a smaller truck...
The Fast and The Furiously Burning
A fatal vehicle fire in Fort Lauderdale Florida is reminiscent of the fire death of Paul Walker from the "Fast & The Furious" But it also illuminates some confusing issues. Two young men Barrett Riley and Edgar Monserratt died in the crash. A third male occupant,...
New Road Surface Data Available For Highbury Ave in London
On October 23, 2019, Gorski Consulting conducted testing on Highbury Ave between Hamilton Road and Highway 401 in London, Ontario to document the road's surface conditions. This was done in a manner that has been discussed numerous times on the Gorski Consulting...
Toronto Street Car Damage – An Example of Successful Transparency
The safety of Toronto streetcar users was protected when its Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) properly informed the public of braking system damage on 25 of its units. This quick action should be applauded and it demonstrates how persons responsible for public safety...
City of London, like Hamilton, Struggles With Advice and Secrecy
Advisory Committees should provide advice, but the City of London's struggle with this issue may result in painful repercussions that have plagued another nearby city. Controversies with secrecy that have resulted in massive legal headaches and huge costs in the City...
OPP Posting of Collision Between Transport & Disabled Vehicle Enables Valuable Lessons
We congratulate Sergeant Kerry Schmidt for posting several photos of a collision on Highway 401 near Highway 6 as these enable a further discussion and valuable lessons to the public. As typical, not all the details of the incident can be obtained from just a few...
Parker or Donovan – OPP and SIU Differ About Which Police Officer Was Guilty
It is strange enough that one police officer would shoot another while both are in uniform and apparently conducting official police business. But it is not helpful that two independent policing agencies who investigated the incident appear to differ in their...
Drowning Fatality in Water-Filled Ditch Receives Minimal Attention
In news media reports from November 14, 2019 it was revealed that Brenda King, a resident of Chatham, Ontario died when her vehicle was found submerged in a water-filled ditch next to Tecumseh Road between Lake St Clair and Tilbury, Ontario. A single photo, shown...
Emotions Continue to be an Interference with Unbiased, Objective Analysis
Whether it be in the realm of religion, culture, climate, race, politics or justice there has been a marked increase in the emotional content of society's judgment. Whether it is the internet that is causing this polarization and radicalization or some unknown...
My Dear, Perhaps You Have Already Observed That In Casablanca Human Life Is Cheap
Chilling words from the fictional Nazi character Major Strasser to Ilsa Lund in the classic 1942 movie Casablanca. The movie was filled with propaganda to stir the western world in its war effort against Nazi Germany, along with digs against the hypocrisy behind truth...
Moving Over & Slowing Down Can Be More Dangerous Than Doing Nothing
It is apparent that basic information about the dangers of moving over and slowing down is being mis-reported leading to the potential of increased numbers and severity of collisions. In many instances initiation of braking and steering can be more dangerous than...
Gorski Consulting Completes 5 Videotaping Sessions at Clarke Road Site
How has traffic changed in 10 years? Does Electronic Stability Control make a big difference in preventing loss-of-control collisions. How about lane departure technologies, are they effective? These are some of the questions that are being answered as Gorski...
Another Fire & Death After Vehicle Strikes Pole in Vaughan Ontario
No photos were available nor were any details provided yet another motorist was killed when a vehicle caught fire after striking a pole on Dufferin Street in Vaughan, Ontario at approximately 0130 hours this morning. CP24 News reported that "Investigators were out on...
Videotaping at Clarke Road In London, From Ten Years Ago, Is Being Repeated
It was ten years ago that research was formally commenced by Gorski Consulting on the S-curve at Clarke Road north of Fanshawe Park Road in London, Ontario. In the fall of 2009 a series of 6 videotaping sessions was completed, each about 1.5 hours long, that...
Recognizing Collision Facts From Patterns of Damage in Head-on Collisions
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...
Fire After Impact of Lamp Post Is A Dangerous Outcome Independent of Driver Impairment
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...
Another Fire-Related Death in Collision on Simcoe St North of Oshawa Ontario
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...
Reporting of Collision Fire Death Is Crucial to Public’s Safety
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...
Bus Multiple Fatalities At Utah’s Bryce Canyon Illustrative Of Continued Systemic Problems
The public is not receiving the critical facts in multiple-fatality bus crashes that continue to exhibit obvious deficiencies in roadways and bus crashworthiness. This is clearly exemplified in the latest crash at Utah's Bryce Canyon on Friday morning, September 20,...
Body Falls on Van: Van Catches Fire – Does That Not Require Further Explanation?
Suicide from jumping off a highway overpass is believable. And noting that the victim fell onto a passing van is also possible. But having the van subsequently catch fire seems a bit questionable. Particularly when news media such as CP24 News reported that police...
Hwy 401 Woodstock Median Barrier Impact Causes Critical Injuries
The Ontario Provincial Police demonstrate a lack of understanding with respect to their role as the only entity that documents the critical evidence relating to serious and fatal motor or vehicle collisions. When deaths occur their role cannot be isolated to...
Barrier Impacts Causing Rollovers of Large Vehicles
Whether you drive a heavy truck or bus, or happen to be a passenger, you are provided with essentially no warnings regarding your danger when your vehicle strikes a roadside barrier. As an example, a tractor-trailer struck the end of a concrete barrier on Highway 401...
Cause of Fatal Rollover on Highbury Ave North of London Ontario Should be Provided
Basic information about the cause of roadway fatalities is increasingly unavailable. Some of this may be related to the challenging financial situation most official, news-gathering organizations are faced with. As the public increasingly looks to social media for...
Explosion After Vehicle “Slams” Into House In London Ontario
Questions need to be answered how an explosion occurred after a vehicle struck a house on the evening of August 14, 2019, on Woodman Ave in London, Ontario. Early reports indicate that a vehicle struck a gas meter of the struck house and this may have led to the...
Fire after Median Cross-over Double fatal on Hwy 401 at Dixie Rd in Toronto
Median barriers that are too low cause heavy vehicles to rollover and increase the severity of collision consequences. Such was the apparent case in a double-fatal collision that occurred on the eastbound Highway 401 at Dixie Road last evening, August 11, 2019....
What is a Life-Threatening Motor Vehicle Collision?
Police and news media provide the public with small glimpses of fatal motor-vehicle collisions while providing very little explanation whether any of these are of a suspicious nature. While the vast majority of these collisions are accidents and not criminal...
Motorcycle Fatalities Over Long Weekend An Inevitable Certainty
Despite what cautions may be given the reality is that the hot and sunny long weekend of August 3 through 5, will inevitably lead to an increase in motorcyclist fatalities. Already there have been reports of two fatalities on Friday evening, one near Grand Bend, and...
Road Testing Delays An Impetus To Fraud
A driving instructor in Richmond BC who reportedly hacked into provincial computers to accelerate appointment times for his clients illustrates a general fact of human nature. It has been reported that the average wait time for BC provincial driving tests was 70 days....
OPP Cruiser Impact in London Ontario Demonstrates Complexities of Enforcement
Not much is known at this time however an OPP police cruiser collision on Southdale Road in London, Ontario has reportedly resulted in critical injuries to two passengers of a taxi. It is reported that Ontario's Special Investigations Unit (SIU) has commenced an...
City of London Appoints Zygmunt M. Gorski To Advisory Committees
Upon a review of applicants a City of London striking committee has appointed Zygmunt M. Gorski to membership in two of its advisory committees. The Community Safety and Crime Prevention Advisory Committee "...serves as a resource, information gathering and advisory...
Data From Recent Testing Added to Gorski Consulting “Road Data” Webpage
After posting several news articles on recent road testing, the subject data has now been uploaded to the Gorski Consulting "Road Data" webpage. Two datafiles have been added. One datafile relates to the testing that was performed this spring on the Red Hill Valley...
Did Heart Condition Cause Collision or Did Collision Cause Heart Condition?
Medical episodes are convenient explanations for fatal collisions. But they are not always the correct explanations. The cause of a double-fatal incident where vehicle was driven into Lake Ontario in Burlington, Ontario, was announced by Halton Regional Police. It was...
Beer Case Used As Child Booster Cushion Publicizes A Wider Safety Issue
The Ontario Provincial Police posted the above photo on their Twitter account showing how a case of beer was being used as a booster cushion for a 2-year-old child seated in the front seat. The photo is eye-catching and garners some publicity of what would appear to...
Explanation – Speed, Difference in Speed and Change in Velocity
It is rare that anyone provides the public with a simple explanation of the difference between "speed of travel along the ground" versus "difference-in-speed" or "change-in-velocity". These concepts are continually confused yet they are very important in understanding...
Better Access to Collision Data Needed to Properly Inform the Public
Publicity surrounding a sudden rash of fatal collisions in the last couple of days can be confusing. Does it mark an important change in pattern or is it simply due random fluctuation? These are the kinds of questions that could be answered by providing the public...
Deception in Median-Cable-Barrier, Multi-Fatal Collision on I-85 in Georgia
Apparently it does not take much effort to hide the fact that a median cable barrier failed to prevent an SUV crossing a median and killing 7 persons. While multiple news coverage focused on small images of the final rest position of the involved vehicles, attention...
Highway 401 Rear-End Impact – Why Was A Truck Travelling So Slowly in Fast Lane?
Simply blaming the rear-ending truck driver for a severe impact will not protect anyone from the next tragedy. But an objective, detailed analysis will. Scientific study can illuminate unknown or hidden factors that might be corrected resulting in a reduced chance of...
Connectivity, Artificial Intelligence & Privacy – A Tightrope Walk With Real Consequences
While there is a leeming's rush to be ahead of the pack with development of large-scale, connected, artificial-intelligence networks, society's privacy cannot be left to unregulated peeping toms at our bedroom windows. In the field of road transportation there are...
Drownings Persist With No Questions Asked & No Answers Given
Official news agencies continue to report on various mysterious vehicular drownings where bodies are found inside submerged vehicles yet no questions are asked. While Gorski Consulting does not have access to any official counts, at least three persons have likely...
Northbound Red Hill Valley Parkway – Differences Between Old & Re-Paved Surfaces
Gorski Consulting tested the old surface of the northbound Red Hill Valley Parkway in Hamilton, Ontario and then re-tested the surface after it was re-paved. This article discusses some of the differences. The table below shows the data from the old surface that was...
Testing Of Re-Paved, Northbound Red Hill Valley Parkway
No obvious problems were detected when the re-paved, northbound Red Hill Valley Parkway was re-tested on June 16, 2019. This is the conclusion drawn after Gorski Consulting conducted testing in response to a driving instructor's complaint to the Hamilton Spectator...
Nothing Said of Third “Drowning” Victim in Leamington Crash
If not for the Windsor Star newspaper there would be no news what-so-ever of the triple "drowning" crash of June 16, 2019 near Leamington, Ontario. In fact not even the Windsor Star could confirm that all three occupants who were trapped in an upside down car in a...
Red Hill Valley & Lincoln Alexander Parkways – Detailed Tables of Surface Conditions
Attached in this article are the tables of individual, road-segment, surface-condition data obtained by Gorski Consulting during testing on May 15, 2019. The first table contains data for the eastbound Lincoln Alexander Parkway. The next table contains data for the...
Full Testing Results Completed For Lincoln Alexander & Red Hill Valley Parkways – Details Shortly
The full results from testing on the Lincoln Alexander and Red Hill Valley Parkways have now been obtained from testing conducted on May 15, 2019. Earlier we reported on the test results from the eastbound Lincoln Alexander and the northbound Red Hill Valley. Now we...
Drowning? Second Teenager Dies Near Leamington But Cause Still Not Confirmed
While the cause seems more certain, the death of a second teenager after a vehicle became submerged in a roadside ditch near Leamington is still not being discussed. The deadly incident occurred on night of June 16, 2019. The Windsor Star newspaper confirmed that this...
Lack of Roadside Barrier Results in Submersion of Vehicle in Fatal Crash Near Leamington
Vehicular drownings remain an unpublicized problem as demonstrated in the latest death near Leamington, Ontario on June 16, 2019. The Windsor Star Newspaper provided some images they obtained from Googlemaps showing the intersection where a crash occurred resulting in...
Lincoln Alexander & Red Hill Valley Surface Data Now Available
This article contains the data from road surface testing along the Lincoln Alexander and Red Hill Valley Parkways that was conducted by Gorski Consulting on May 15, 2019. The Red Hill Valley data was obtained just before it was closed for re-surfacing. The table below...
Red Hill Valley Parkway – New Paving Receives Complaint
In a "Letter-to-the Editor" of the Hamilton Spectator Newspaper, a local reader complained about the roughness of the newly-paved, northbound lanes of the Red Hill Valley Parkway. The letter read as follows: Newly-paved road a disaster RE: Red Hill I had the...
Highway 402 – Tables of Road Surface Condition Data Obtained From Testing on April 29, 2019
Tables showing the data obtained from specific locations along Highway 402 are provided here from testing conducted on April 29, 2019. As discussed in previous articles this data contains information about the disturbance in the test vehicle's motion caused the...
Drivers Beware – Road Data Shows Important Differences in 400 Series Highways in Southwestern Ontario
Drivers in Ontario have an objective way of comparing the safety of road surfaces. In the most recent series of testing, Gorski Consulting has compared the surfaces of Highway 401 and 402 with interesting, and differing, results. The testing involved driving a test...
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Zygmunt Gorski has been involved in the analysis of motor vehicle accidents since 1980. Initially employed as an accident investigator with the University of Western Ontario Multi-Disciplinary Accident Research Team (1980-90), Gorski then worked as an Accident Reconstruction Consultant with a forensic engineering firm in Kitchener and Toronto (1990-95), before opening his own consulting business in 1995 which he continues to operate to this day. Although Gorski’s interest has always focused on the physical evidence resulting from motor vehicle collisions, he has been involved in a variety of analyses ranging from injury assessments in his earlier times to the use of multiple video cameras and roadway safety issues in more recent years.
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