McKinzie & Associates is dedicated to providing an accurate technical analysis of motor vehicle collisions, based on creditable data. The most modern techniques in accident reconstruction (Total Station Forensic Mapping, computer aided drafting, PC Crash, Rectec, VC2000 performance computer, CDR, Air brake analyzer) are utilized to document evidence and substantiate the case. Finally, a professional courtroom presentation can include simple to understand analysis of the collision and reconstruction process, color scale drawings or real time animation.

Investigated / reconstructed over 1700 motor vehicle collisions to date

1702 Total as of 04-2002

Expert Witness Appearances
Mr. McKinzie has testified over 150 times as an expert in Forensic Mapping, Commercial Vehicle Operation, and Accident Reconstruction, in State and Federal courts.

P R O F E S S I O N A L

October, 1987 Granted membership, Illinois Association of Technical Accident Investigators

November, 1987 Award for Outstanding Service on Catastrophic Car Wrecks, presented by the Kansas Bar Association

April 1987 Authored the KHP guidelines for Accident Reconstruction

July, 1987 Granted membership with the International Association of Accident Reconstruction Specialist

1987-89 Primary Instructor, Acc. Invest. Kansas Highway Patrol Training Academy

January, 1990 Granted membership with the National Association of Professional Accident Reconstruction Specialist

April 1991 Instructor A / R course for the Kansas Motor Carrier Association

September, 1991 Granted membership with the Society of Accident Reconstructionists

January, 1993 Granted membership with the Midwest Association of Technical Accident Investigators

Primary Instructor of Advanced Accident Investigation for the Kansas Highway Patrol Academy

April 1994 State Accident Reconstruction Coordinator, KHP

January 1995, Instructor Forensic Mapping, Suffolk, Nassau Co. PD, New York State Police, Long Island NY

June 1995, Instructor, Accident Assessment for Administrators Greyhound Inc.

August 1995 Instructor, Advanced Commercial Vehicle Accident Reconstruction, TEEX, Texas A&M University

November 1995, Primary Instructor, Advanced Scene Investigation using Forensic Mapping & CAD, TEEX, Texas A&M University

March 1996, Instructor, Forensic Mapping for Accident Reconstruction with CAD. Nebraska State Patrol Academy Nebraska State Patrol, Lincoln NE

April 1996, Instructor, Advanced Commercial Vehicle Accident Reconstruction, South Carolina Highway Patrol, TEEX Texas A&M University

February 1997, Granted membership into the Society of Automotive Engineers

June 1997, Instructor, Forensic Mapping; Tampa Police Department Tampa, FL

Sept. 1997, Lecturer Forensic Mapping; IATAI, Arlington Heights, IL

April, 1998 Lecturer, Accident Reconstruction 80th Annual KS. Transportation Engineering Conference
Kansas State University

May, 1998 Lecturer, Expert Panel, New Technology Annual Training Conference, (MATAI) Midwest Association of Technical Accident Investigators
Kansas City, Missouri

Sept. 1998 Lecturer Ill. Assoc. of Tech. Acc. Invest.
Team approach to Catastrophic Highway Incidents Field demonstrations on C.V. brake analysis
Springfield Ill.

October, 1998 Lecturer Texas A&M, TEEX, CRASH 98
Documentation of Crush damage Forensic Modeling W/a Total Station George Bush Presidential Conference Center
College Station, TX

December, 1998 Project Coordinator, Senior Reconstructionist
Concluded a five year study of commercial Vehicle fatal crashes in Kansas. A cause analysis Identified the probable cause and contributing factors. Report for US-DOT, FHA, OMC, KHP

June, 1999 Panelist, Digital Camera Panel, Highway Innovative Technology Evaluation Center Civil Engineering Research Foundation Washington, DC

August 1999, Primary Instructor, Advanced Scene Investigation using Forensic Mapping & CAD, Florida Highway Patrol

February 2000, Primary Instructor, Advanced Scene Investigation using Forensic Mapping & CAD, Missouri State Highway Patrol

April 2000, Primary Instructor, Forensic Mapping

Massachusetts State Police

April 2000, Granted membership with the Texas Association of Accident Reconstruction Specialists

August 2001, Appointed to the International Advisory Committee CIRIL, conference Birmingham England

February 2002, Primary Instructor, Heavy Commercial Vehicle Crash Reconstruction, Royal New Zealand Police College, Wellington NZ

P U B L I S H E D

Forensic Mapping Systems and Data Analysis Comparison
World Reconstruction Exhibition 2000 Texas A&M College Station TX R.S. McKinzie Sept. 2000
Friction Values of Sliding Commercial Vehicles vs. Autos
World Reconstruction Exhibition 2000 Texas A&M College Station TX
David Stopper, Texas A&M-TEEX, Instructor
Steve McKinzie, Texas A&M-TEEX, Instructor
Chris Voeglie, National Transportation Safety Board
Ron Heusser, Engineering Accident Analysis
Sept. 2000
Cutting the Economic Cost of Major Crashes
Australian & South Pacific Association of Collision Investigators
Adelaide Australia

RS McKinzie, John Ruller
March 2002

P E R S O N A L

Married, 5 children, 3 grandchildren