(Leica Geosystems: San Ramon, California) -- Leica Geosystems assisted the California Highway Patrol’s multidisciplinary accident investigation team (MAIT) at the recent collapse of a major San Francisco-area overpass. The CHP brought a Leica ScanStation 3-D laser scanner to map the scene, and Leica Geosystems dispatched an application engineer to help collect and process the accident-scene data.
The CHP was on the scene within minutes of the incident. Once it was safe, MAIT members set up the Leica ScanStation and collected high-accuracy data from the ground to the top of the destroyed overpass. Leica Geosystems’ application engineer assisted the CHP in documenting the scene.
Recording forensic evidence to map the complex 3-D-accident scene was further complicated by contractors demolishing the overpass as MAIT members were scanning the scene.
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