The Tasks of Forensic Vehicle Inspections

Abstract

Theoretical provisions concerning the subject of forensic vehicle inspections, their objects and tasks, investigatory techniques are still not developed in forensic and expert literature. Based on a review of investigative and expert practice, professional literature, synthesis of scientific opinions a classification is offered for diagnostic tasks of forensic vehicle inspections to establish: technical condition of vehicles; trajectory and characteristics of their movement; conditions of transport communication lines; reasons, mechanism and circumstances of a road traffic accident; the circumstances preceding a road traffic accident as well as related to assessment of actions of the workers responsible for service and repair of a vehicle to ascertain a possibility to prevent an accident. Situational tasks are given special consideration.

Keywords

• forensic expertise
• forensic vehicle inspections
• tasks of forensic expertise
• situational tasks