A Method for Distinguishing the Braking Situation of the Vehicle in Vehicle-Pedestrian Accidents

The braking situation is important information in vehicle-pedestrian accident responsibility identification. In order to distinguish the braking situation, the relation between the post-braking distance and the throw distance on slope roads were studier firstly, and then the Pc-Crash and those existing research results were used for validating the proposed relation, finally a method used for analyzing the probability that a vehicle is fully braked or not was proposed based on the obtained relation. According to the method, the probability curve of two special cases were given, results showed that the method proposed in the paper is meaningful in practice.