Having been involved in one accident as a child (we were turning left across a divided (but not access-controlled) highway, and a car on the other side indicated it was turning right at the same road – it did not, and it desperately tried to take the front end of my parents’ jeep off, from my side), and one fender-bender as an adult (my all-wheel drive Outback lost traction to all four wheels in Rhode Island, and somewhere in the midst of doing a 450 degree turn, it kissed a guardrail), a gadget that simplified drawing out what the accident looked like and how it transpired would have made life a lot easier.
Well, now there is one.
While certainly not being something I would hope to use, I can certainly see how it could be useful in the right circumstances… kind of like some other tools I keep handy. And, if nothing else, it is a pretty slick tool indicating just how cool and pervasive the internet has become these days – I can totally see someone drafting up an accident report on their iPhone before the police are even on the scene.
Just bear in mind the program appears to have been generated by Germans, and there are some random idiosyncracies here and there (European laws and accident report templates, “ist” for “is”, etc.).
Interesting stuff! Wonder how to draw a 16-wheeler moving over into you lane that flattens front and rear driver-side tires causing a 360-spin and as you “exit the freeway” a rollover when the flat rims dig into the soft shoulder stuff. 20-years later and my wife still has complications to the broken collar bone.
Ouch! Well that certainly sucks… No idea if you could actually draw that, but it does have some allowance for a textual explanation, I think.