At-Scene Traffic Crash/Traffic Homicide Investigation

Course Overview

This 80-hour course serves as the first in a three-course series and provides participants with essential competencies for conducting comprehensive traffic crash investigations and documenting findings suitable for courtroom use.

Course Content

The program covers proper methodologies for measuring, creating scale diagrams, and capturing photographs to document physical evidence and critical information present exclusively at the crash scene. Participants will gain understanding of fundamental mathematical, physics, and engineering concepts applicable to traffic crash investigations, including the specific equations required for different crash scenarios. The course emphasizes analytical skills to reconstruct events before, during, and after a collision.

Topics Covered Include:

• Physical evidence from the roadway and vehicles
• Human factors and occupant kinematics
• Mathematical principles and equations
• Skid marks and vehicle speed determination
• Crash scene photography
• Traffic templates
• Measuring and scale diagramming techniques
• Driver and witness interviews
• Information analysis and case preparation

Target Audience

This course is designed for law enforcement and private traffic crash investigators, claims adjusters, engineers, attorneys, safety officers, military investigative personnel, animators, and graphic designers.

Course Details

Duration: 80 hours
Class Hours: 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM
Fee: $1,195.00

Important Note

For Florida law enforcement officers, successful completion of this course does not qualify for Salary Incentive Credit for the FDLE course "Traffic Homicide Investigation."

Series Information

This course is the first offering in a three-course sequence. The series continues with Advanced Traffic Crash Investigation and concludes with Traffic Crash Reconstruction, with both online and accelerated options available for select courses.