This online application calculates the three conservation principles of classical mechanics: Conservation of linear momentum, energy and angular momentum. This web based application uses these conservation rules to calculate in a graphical environment the impact speeds for the vehicles involved in the collision. The calculation is based on the post-crash velocities, the energy transformed into deformation work and the (change of the) angular velocities of the vehicles.

This application is still under development based on a well known PC software called ‘WinKol’. Description of Winkol in German language.

Please note: Vehicle are in draft mode for development purposes and will be replaced with hi-res models.

*** Juergen ***
ClaimMS-Team

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Free is ALWAYS good in my book! There is a great new FREE resource available to all New York and Pennsylvania car accident victims. AccidentSketch is a online utility that anyone can use to graphically document a car accident. The service is free and doesn’t even require registration!

Why Drawing an Accurate Accident Sketch is Important

Insurance companies, courts and lawyers all require detailed depictions of an accident to successfully resolve claims for compensation. Often there will be disputes about where each car involved in an accident was prior to, during or after the car crash. There may be disputes about the direction of travel for each car. There may be disputes about what car had the right of way at the time of the accident.

Experienced accident lawyers know that working with an accident sketch is a great way for your clients to discuss with you the details of EXACTLY how an accident occurred.

I discovered the existence of the AccidentSketch service through the Lifehacker weblog. I think it is a fantastic tool to ease the process of making an accurate accident report – and it puts the means in the hands of the people who were involved in the crash. AccidentSketch is one of those tools that is essential, once you know it’s out there.

One Warning!

Because it is critically important that an accident sketch be as accurate as possible, I would strongly urge anyone who was injured in a car accident to consult with an experienced accident lawyer BEFORE submitting an accident scene sketch to any insurance company. Why? Because anything you submit to an insurance company, even your own insurance company, may be used against you by the insurance company for the other driver involved in your accident. Accordingly, you want to make certain that the sketch is 100% accurate and there is nothing in the sketch that might shoot you in the foot…..

How AccidentSketch works

The software is amazingly simple to use. All of the standard road elements are already created – just put them together like a puzzle to recreate the circumstances of an accident.

• First, you select road “pieces” to map an accurate depiction of the road, be it a curve, a urn, an intersection or other type of street. The pieces drag and snap into a grid at a scale of 1:100.
• Then select your vehicle type (trucks, motorcycles, bicycles and pedestrians are also options) and place it in the road map you created. You can choose vehicle colors and input license plate numbers.
• Continue to add vehicles and other details, such as traffic signs, lights, arrows, braking marks and more, until you have an accurate drawing of your accident.
• You may even create a time-lapse version of the accident, by placing multiple images of vehicles on the map and using arrows to show their courses of action.
• To complete your account of the accident, AccidentSketch allows you to type in a text report, where you can explain the accident in depth.

At this point, without paying a fee and with minimum effort, you will have a detailed, accurate and easy-to-follow accident report that will be invaluable information in settling insurance claims or a court case. (…)

Thanks for reading,
Jim
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James B. Reed, Esq.
New York Accident Lawyer
Ziff Law Firm, LLP
303 William St., Elmira, NY 14902
Tel. (607) 733-8866 Fax. (607) 732-6062
Toll Free 1-800-943-3529
mailto:jreed@zifflaw.com http://www.zifflaw.com
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Adapted by ***Juergen*** ClaimMS-Team.Thanks to Cory for this advice with value.

*** Juergen ***
ClaimMS-Team

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Anyhow there are other important reasons for supporting the idea of an extra button to save the sketch. This way it is pretty sensible to create a drawing and for example send it to your lawyer, who can add something to your depiction or transfer it to the insurance company. This feature will be offered in the Pro Version. Also the free public version is going to get access to this after the next update in the second quarter of 2010. We will be reporting about this in the blog later and publish more details.

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ClaimMS-Team

In the Pro Version of accidentsketch.com a further e-mail function is embedded. You cannot only send the PDF, additionally the addressee gets all data in order to recover your depicton with a single mouse click on his screen and is able to add something or correct the sketch. This makes perfectly sense if you have sent your sketch to your lawyer and after consultation there is a necessity to fix it. A similar expansion for recovering your depiction on a different computer will be released for the free public version of accidentsketch.com in the first quarter of 2010. We will let you know how to forward your photos of the crashed car and the scene of the accident on our blog at time.

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ClaimMS-Team

Our core business establishes developments of technical software, particularly with regards to the analysis and reconstruction of traffic accidents. In the past our software was developed as typical desktop applications. Now we are turning our approved solutions into web applications. Already in the third quarter of 2010 a very flexible application to create, calculate and draw Time-Distance-Diagrams in order to analyse and reconstruct the traffic accident, is going to be released. Vary the zoom and scale of the diagrams and print them in every current printing format or transfer them in the DXF-format of CAD-programms. Furthermore the graphic conversion of an analysis of collision is under construction. For the professionals in the field of traffic accident analysis we are offering an online CAD-program with more than 5000 views of vehicles in order to pass the means of Accidentsketch.com and depict professional sketches for court, the police and insurance companies. We are going to report on this in detail later in a comment, too.

In this blog we want to devote ourselves only with Accidentsketch.com. We are getting a lot of feedback in different languages. Unfortunately we cannot answer them all individually, so we want to try to answer the commonly asked questions in this blog. Therefore we hope you understand that you are supposed to communicate in english only in this blog.

We are looking forward to hear from you and hope to get suggestions for further developments with value. We are working on a lot of requests and suggestions of customers and many of them are going to be released already in the third quarter of 2010. In near future you will be able to embed photos and other documents into your claims file and sketch. Also the depiction that you have drawn will not only be accessible from your computer. You can even send your sketch to others who might copy, add or change it. Visit our blog again soon. We will report to all topics.

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ClaimMS-Team