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      ASPACI 2000
Road Safety - Crash Conference
13th  to 17th February 2000
Panthers World of Entertainment, Penrith (Sydney) - Australia
   
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Keynote Speakers

It is intended to have a number of Keynote and Plenary Session speakers over the course of the conference.  These are distinguished persons from the accident reconstruction and associated fields.  To date the following keynote speakers have been arranged:
George Bonnett
Paul Forman
Joseph Del'Marmol, III
Estelle Blackburn
Other conference speakers are listed at the bottom of this page.

George M Bonnett - Reconstruction Technology, Florida, USA
George M Bonnett is an attorney, an expert in the field of accident reconstruction, and the author and designer of the REC-TEC Professional accident reconstruction program.  He is a Vietnam veteran, serving as a Captain and Marine Corps Aviator with 135 combat missions.  He is also a retired veteran of the New Orleans Police Department.

He has taught courses on the REC-TEC program for Louisiana State Police, Kansas Highway Patrol, Missouri Highway Patrol, South Carolina Highway Patrol, the Highway Traffic Safety Program at Michigan State University, and the Traffic Institute for Police Services in Pennsylvania. He is an instructor with TEEX at Texas A&M, and has been a presenter at IPTM, IAARS, and TAARS. 

George currently resides in Florida with his wife Dominique and Betaille (a Cajun-French word meaning "beast from one's nightmares" and pronounced Ba-tie) their caracal lynx. He continues to actively develop and improve the REC-TEC computer program as well as teaching both public and private courses on REC-TEC and consulting on cases involving accident reconstruction.
 

Paul Forman - Transport Research Laboratory, UK
Paul Forman is the head of Investigations & Risk Management for the UK's Transport Research Laboratory. He is past Chairman of the Institute of Traffic Accident Investigators (97-99) and is now Communications Officer for the Institute.

Joseph Del'Marmol, III - Law Office of David A McDowell,  Sacramento, USA
Joe Del'Marmol is a retired law enforcement officer who has investigated insurance fraud for more than 14 years. He has provided courses of instruction in insurance fraud, interview techniques, and accident reconstruction to police academies and private industry throughout the United States. He is a recognised expert in insurance fraud and traffic accident reconstruction.
 

Estelle Blackburn - Author of "Broken Lives".  As seen on 60 Minutes
Click here for details on Estelle's book.

"In 1964, Eric Edgar Cooke went to the gallows, the last man to be hanged in Western Australia. He'd killed six people. But as he was read his last rites, Cooke admitted to two other slayings. For state authorities this proved rather inconvenient. Two other men were already in jail serving time for those murders. In her first report for 60 Minutes, Ellen Fanning tells of the terrible injustice suffered by these two men. She reveals new evidence pointing to a grave and continuing miscarriage of justice. Only now, after 30 years, is the West Australian Government considering reopening inquiries and clearing the names of these wrongly convicted men, which details the life of the last person to be hanged in Western Australia." - 60 Minutes.

One of the men was John Button who was convicted of killing his 17 year old sweetheart in a hit and run accident.  On the basis of the fresh evidence unearthed and published by Estelle, the WA Government has since granted Button another appeal - a rare event, especially 36 years on.
 
 
 

Other Conference Speakers

The conference program allows for a limited number of additional speakers that have been selected for the contribution that their papers can make to the Conference theme.  The following individuals or groups will be presenting papers during the plenary or technical paper streams.
  • Rusty Haight - TEEX, Texas A&M University, USA
    Update on the latest pedestrian impact testing

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  • Jim Glissan, QC - Barrister, Australia
    The Exclusion of Opinion Evidence.

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  • Prof John Raine- University of Canterbury, New Zealand 

    • Sgt J Boon - New Zealand Police
    Comparison of Road Friction Measurement Techniques
     
  • Dr Damian Schofield - University of Nottingham, UK

    • Jeremy Noond - Nottingham Trent University, UK
    Michael Doyle - West Midlands Police, UK
    Lorna Goodwin - University of Nottingham, UK
    Ken Fowle - Perth Central TAFE, Australia
    The Use of Forensic Animations in the Courtroom
     
  • Sgt Andy Mitton - SA Police, Australia

    • "Have you got a witness"
     
  • Cathy Edwards - Road Safety Officer, Penrith City Council, Australia

    • FARMS Road Safety Project
     
  • Fred Schnerring - Jamieson Foley & Associates, Australia

    • Road Safety Audits
     
  • Alan Sutton - Manager Customer Engineering & Quality Systems

    • South Pacific Tyres (Dunlop Olympic)
    Tyre technology, performance, failure and inspection
     
  • Egon Meinhardt - Fleet System Consultant, Australia 

    • Black boxes and other fleet systems
     
  • Russell Mills - NRMA Insurance, Australia

    • Detection of Motor Vehicle Fraud
     
  • Barry McDonald - Tasmania Police, Australia

    • The Importance of Evidence
     
  • William Keramidas - William Keramidas & Associates, Australia

    • Case Study of an Expert Conference

 
  Last modified on 19 September 2007 by Andrew Brown of Civil & Forensic Pty Ltd
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