Review article

One of the promising directions of road traffic accident examination related to the calculating of vehicle’s driving speed is the speed calculation based on the efforts of motional energy for the deformation of vehicle bodies. The currently used technique of calculating vehicles’ road speed based on the vehicle`s deformations is considered. There is substantiated lack of possibility for applying this technique in the absence of traces of objects` movement in case of a collision with a small-sized object with a mass much less than the mass of the vehicle. The authors offer using the Galileo's principle of relativity when looking for the solution of this problem. The proposed solution was tested on the example of a real road traffic accident.