Mr. Russell Danton

Mr Russell Danton is a Forensic Collision Investigator for GBB with over 18 years’ experience of working in the field of collision investigation for research and litigation purposes. He applies his knowledge of collision investigation techniques to the investigation, analysis, and reconstruction of road traffic collisions involving large goods vehicles, passenger cars, motorcycles, bicycles, pedestrians, and the highway infrastructure.

Mr Danton's expertise covers all aspects of collision investigation; however, he specialises in serious collisions involving pedestrians, cyclists, seat belt usage and passenger vehicles. Mr Danton is also experienced in conducting locus inspections to identify potential highway features or issues that may have contributed to the collision circumstances. This also includes conducting laser surveys of incident scenes to provide further resources for a full reconstruction of a collision.

Since 2019 Mr Danton has been focussing on the large loss and complex investigations with GBB, conducting vehicle and locus inspections with photogrammetry and laser scanning techniques and providing full accident reconstruction reports for insurers and solicitors for use in Civil litigation or by providing initial reports and advice note for early case settlements or insights.

Mr Danton has been involved in many areas of transport related research which include vehicle-vehicle collisions vehicle-pedestrian collisions, child occupant safety, highway design and safety features, LGV and left-hand drive LGV collisions, and providing collision reconstruction evidence to base the current Autonomous Emergency Braking (AEB) systems rating tests on. He has also witnessed crash tests involving pedestrian dummies, cars, LGVs, barriers and street furniture.

Expertise:
• Over 18 years’ experience in collision investigation and research
• Extensive court experience (inc. High Court) in UK and IRE
• Published author of peer reviewed scientific research papers and research project reports
• Pedestrian, cyclist, motorcycles, cars, LGVs, seat belt usage highway structures
• Locus inspections
• EDR data download and retrieval
• Computer simulation, CCTV Analysis and 3D modelling

Mr Danton has given evidence in court for civil proceedings in the UK and Ireland, working with many major UK and Irish solicitors and insurance companies.

He has authored and has been involved in peer reviewed published research relating to various areas of accident investigation. He has presented his research at national and international conferences.

Advanced Collision Investigation Techniques Loughborough University & Nottinghamshire Police 2004 -2006 Expert Witness Training Forensic Science Service 2003 Introduction to Road Safety Audit Training TMS Consultancy 2009 PC Crash & AI Damage AITS & Hannover University 2005 to 2008 Hybrid and High Voltage Safety Training Training 2000 – IMI Level 1 2017 Bosch CDR Operator Technician TR Darts Netherlands 2020 Video Analysis in Collision Reconstruction FCIR/ITAI Accredited Training 2022 Advanced Analysis of Driver’s Response (Human factors in traffic crashes) J.W. Muttart/ ITAI Accredited Training 2022