BTEC Assignment Brief
Qualification Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Extended Diploma in Applied Science
Unit number and title Unit 26: Forensic Traffic Accident Investigation
A: Investigate factors that cause road
Learning aim
traffic collisions and injury
Assignment title Factors causing road traffic collisions and injury
S. Barnes
Assessor
Muhammed Zain Gorji
Learner Name
25/04/2022
Issue date
06/05/2022
Hand in deadline
You are carrying out a placement in the traffic accident
department at the Highways agency. Your supervisor has
asked you to produce a report into the different factors
Vocational Scenario or that can cause road traffic collisions and injury. This
Context report will then be used as a resource to help drivers
involved in collisions understand how to be safe on the
road.
You will produce a written report evaluating, assessing and
explaining the interrelationships between the factors in road traffic
collisions and the relative importance of each factor in causing road
collisions and injury.
• Assess the interrelationship between the factors listed below,
explaining how and why each of the factors can cause road
Task traffic collisions and injury, either their own or in combination.
Road Traffic Collision and Injury Factors
o human: behaviour or inexperience, impairment or
distraction, attitudes to drinking alcohol, education,
passengers.
o environmental: weather conditions, traffic control, safety
cameras, signs impaired from view, congestion, state of
the road, design of roadways
o vehicle: type and condition of vehicle, braking system,
steering system, tyres, seat belts, air bags, crumple zones,
distribution of loads, overloading, maintenance, prior
damage or modifications
Evaluate the significance and relationship between these causal
factors and their relative importance in causing road traffic
, collisions and injury. As part of the evaluation, comment on how
the factors could possibly be avoided [if at all] or used to improve
road safety.
Checklist of evidence A written report which explains, assesses and evaluates all of the
required major factors (human, environmental and vehicle), and their
significance in road traffic collisions and injury.
Criteria covered by this task:
Unit/Criteria
To achieve the criteria, you must show that you are able to:
reference
Evaluate the significance of the different factors that cause of road
A.D1
traffic collisions and injury.
Assess the interrelationship between the factors that cause road
A.M1
traffic collisions and injury.
A.P1 Explain the factors that cause road traffic collisions and injury.
Sources of information Textbooks
to support you with this
Assignment
Burke, M.P., Forensic Medical Investigation of Motor
Vehicle Incidents, CRC Press, 2006 (ISBN:
9780849378591).
Cooper, S. and Orme, M., Blackstone’s Police Manual 2008
Volume 3: Road Policing, Oxford University Press, 2007
(ISBN: 9780199229260).
Van Kirk, D.J., Vehicular Accident Investigation and
Reconstruction, CRC Press, 2000 (ISBN:
9780849320200).
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