Technology helps assess risky driving periods

The ability to reconstruct accidents digitally is playing an increasingly key part in communicating the true impact of a collision and in turn, has the potential to help to change attitudes towards speeding, while helping to reduce insurance disputes.

Using technology to outline the main causes of a crash, UK-based vehicle relationship management specialist In-Car Cleverness (ICC) recently analysed data from 897 rental cars, which suggested that motorists who drive in the early hours of the morning are at greater risk of being involved in a high-speed collision than at other times of the day. Its research also showed that the speed of vehicles involved in a collision peaks at 2am, when the impact speed of accidents hits an average of 36mph (57kph).

The speeds at which collisions occur increase steadily from the early evening, starting at 24mph at 8pm and rising by 53% over the next six hours. However, the highest collision speed recorded was a 100mph a crash that happened in the evening rush hour.