Over the past 34 years Dr. McElroy has worked with:
- Event Data Recorders – EDR
- Tachographs
- School Busses
- Transit Busses
- 15 Passenger Van Rollovers
- Fast Motorcycles
- Cruiser Motorcycles
- Children’s Motorcycles
- Sudden Unintended Acceleration (SUA)
- Pedal not bolted securely to car causes SUA
- Pedal Misapplication
- Alleged Brake Failures
- Actual Brake Failures
- Bicycles
- Bicycle impact to Pedestrian
- Car into powered wheelchair
Vehicle Stability Control- Brakes
- Anti-Lock Brakes
- Car & Heavy Truck Steering Failures
- Too Fast For Conditions
- Cruise Control on in the rain
- Cruise Control causes unintended acceleration
- Vehicle accelerator jammed open after collision
- Vehicle takes off after collision
- Powered mobility cart stability
- Ambulance accidents
- Tractor Trailer sideswipes vehicle in same direction
- Car sideswipes Tractor Trailer in opposite direction
- Motorcycle allegedly causes multi-car collision
- Small motorcycle assembled improperly crashes
Police Car strikes Tractor Trailer- Police Car strikes Pedestrian
- Police Car goes off roadway
- Police Car overturns
- Car runs over Black Bear at night
- Utility trailer disconnects
- Severely rusted swimming pool maintenance pickup truck frame permits trailer disconnect
- Overloaded pickup truck and trailer
- Overloaded limousine tires catch fire
- Airport shuttle bus fires
- Were vehicle lights on at impact?
Pedestrian suicide decapitation in tractor trailer impact- Pedestrian struck by car
- Pedestrian night visibility – urban roadway
- Pedestrian night visibility – interstate highway
- Sleeping person run over by tractor trailer
- Dump truck transmission falls out and struck by following car
- Dump truck suspension failure causes driver fatality
- Tractor Trailer suspension failure causes rollover and driver fatality
- Tractor Trailer tire failures
- Heavy Truck Underride Guards
- Tank Truck impacts rear of Tractor Trailer and car at toll plaza
- Golf Cart accelerates and throws passenger off rear facing seat
- Golf Cart struck by automobile
- Golf Cart strikes pedestrian
- Maintenance Golf Cart struck by turning Tractor fitted with rotary roadway sweeper
- Air brake failures
- Air brake compressor failure
- Air brake proportioning valve failure
- Air brake line failure
- Car manufacturing defect suspension failure
- Fire Truck accidents
Seat belts worn, not worn and failures- Car stops in middle lane of freeway and struck by Tractor Trailer
- Car stops on freeway and is struck by multiple vehicles
- Gasoline tank truck fire and explosion
- Car gas tank fire and explosion
- Car gas tank ruptured by runaway utility trailer
- Post Impact Vehicle Tampering
- Insurance Fraud
- Commercial truck not fitted with proper size mirrors
- Heavy load forklift goes through bottom of truck floor
- Forklift runs over worker in factory
- Forklift runs over landscape worker
Vehicle Inspections- Design Defects
- Manufacturing Defects
- Maintenance
- Impact severs fuel lines
- Impact severs brake lines
- Garbage truck worker caught in hopper
- Garbage truck, left & right side driver control lockout problem kills maintenance technician
- Allison transmissions
- Allison transmission rebuilding
- Train engineer collision injury
- Car into parked train
Car under Tractor Trailer- Pickup under Tractor Trailer
- Car towing Pickup struck by Tractor Trailer
- Vehicle into rear of Tractor Trailer in dense fog
- Night – Driver hits toddler on dark roadway
- Night – Bicycle, with no reflectors, struck by SUV
- Night – Inattentive driver strikes pedestrian and tow truck with car
- Night – Retroreflective DOT Tape visibility
- Night – Pedestrian cuts hole in fence and is struck on limited access highway
- Truck coming in for maintenance pushes mechanic into refrigerator and wall
Post Impact – cruise control cable pulls throttle wide open and vehicle then strikes house- Sun Angle and Position obscures motorcycle at impact
- Roll bar amputates rear seat passenger’s arm when vehicle rolls over
- Rear impact to vehicle causes driver’s seat failure, driver injury, and loss of control
- Frontal impact with unrestrained rear passenger goes between front seats and crushes front seat passengers wearing seat belts
- Obstructed sight lines obscures traffic
- Not stopping for Stop signs
- Gasoline explodes when generator is being refuled
- Battery explosion
- Passenger tire delamination
- Dump truck tire failure
- Tractor Trailer tire failure
- Motor Coach multiple tire failures
- Trial exhibits
Child runs between parked cars, into street in business district, and is hit by motorist- Child not restrained in car seat in impact
- Child in car seat, but not properly installed in impact
- Car, SUV, and Pickup truck axle flange failures
- Car, SUV, and Pickup axle failures
- Loss of vehicle control after pavement dropoff
- Loss of vehicle control at highway repaving lane height edge
- Door reinforcement beam ejected from car in crash
- Door falls off car after modest side impact
- Door opens after impact when “B” Pillar fails
- Door opens after impact, ejecting rear seat occupant
- Door opens after car spins 180 degrees and secondary contact pulls door handle
- Aluminum wheels come off car
- Tires not properly reinstalled after maintenance
- Tire comes off after maintenance
- Tire impacts vehicle after coming off Tractor Trailer
- Tire impacts vehicle after coming off car
- Tire explosion during maintenance
- Tire repair leads to tire failure and accident
- Split Rim failures
Tire mismatch failures- Tires not rated for vehicle load
- Tires run underinflated or overinflated
- Hydroplaning because of worn tires
- Hydroplaning because of roadway water ponding
- Tractor Trailer driver injury in loading dock area
- Transit bus mechanic injury during air conditioning maintenance
- Auto Part Integrity – OEM, CAPA, other
- Full Body Sectioning
- Automatic transmission not shifting properly
- Manufacturer Recalls
- Manufacturer Service Bulletins
- Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards
- USDOT Standards
- NHTSA Recalls
- FMCSA Standards
- Jet Sk runs over another Jet Ski
- Offshore Power Boat occupant injury
Highway debris through Tractor Trailer windshield- Highway debris through car windshield
- Highway debris destroys Tractor Trailer
- Organized Crime Auto Theft
- Vehicle Identification Numbers
- Metric and SAE Fasteners Co-Mingled
- Wheel Nuts / Lug Nuts
- Wheel Loss – defective clamping force
- Wheel Loss – maintenance / service issue
- Bobcat type Skid Steer Loader – faulty hydraulics causes amputation
- Skid Steer Tracked Loader burns up
- Hydraulic Excavator, in maintenance, runs through building
- Commercial truck steering gear “locks”
- Tractor Trailer “No Brakes” runaway
- Earthmoving equipment catastrophic engine failures
- Motorcycle high speed impact
- Motorcycle medium speed impact
- Motorcycle struck by car
- Motorcycle struck by runaway trailer
- Motorcycle lights on at impact?
- Mobility Carts
- Street Sweeper truck struck by car
- Police Cruiser, assisting motorist, struck by Tractor Trailer
- Out of position passenger injured during impact
- Unsecured child seat in car
- Phantom piece of sheet metal allegedly kills rear seat passenger
- SUV Rollover
- Elevated Vehicle impacts car
- Car hits tree (frontal , sideways , or rearward)
- Car hits wooden pole
- Car hits concrete pole, engine and transmission continue down the street
- Multiple impact single vehicle crash
- Multiple vehicle in-line impact
- Car torn into multiple pieces at impact
- Tire delamination causes crash
- Highway work zone crash
- Post impact fire
- Drag racing crash
