The New York State Traffic Accident Reconstruction Specialists will be hosting the 2025 Joint Conference
https://nystars.org/joint-conference
Venue: Fort William Henry Resort, Lake George NY
NYSTARS, NAPARS, NJAARS, MdATAI, and NATARI rotate responsibility for the Annual Joint Conference each year.
Investigating Emergency Vehicle Crashes
DATE: Friday, 14 November 2025 TIME: 12 noon - 2pm EDT (GMT-4, or 9am-11am Pacific Time) COST: Free for NAPARS members; $6 for non-members ACTAR: This event has been submitted to ACTAR for CEU consideration.
All attendees will be able to request an attendance certificate during the show.
The show will be recorded and put in the Reference Library along with various supporting material.
-The vehicle (specifications, dynamics)
-The Driver (training, history, distractions)
-The Scene (sight distance, preemption, "right of way")
-Laws & Regulations (CDL / licensing exemptions, NFPA)
-Failure to Yield and Notice of Approach (SIrens/Lights)
-Measuring and understanding Sound
-Siren effectiveness (pressure, sweep, localization, shielding/reflection)
-Legal aspects of the crash aftermath
SPEAKER: Lt. Christopher Daly, West Chester (PA) Police Department, has decades of both police and firefighting/EMS experience, is a certified EVOC Instructor, holds ACTAR #1863, and completed his Master’s in Environmental Health Engineering from Johns Hopkins University a few years ago, with a thesis on sound level and noise measurements (a topic near and dear to the hearts of anyone who operates emergency vehicles or analyzes those crashes). You can visit with Chris on hish Drive to Survive YouTube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/@drivetosurvive1752
NAPARS is excited to have him join us for the afternoon!
Lt. Christopher Daly.
Heavy Vehicle Forensic Mechanical Inspection for Collision Investigators
Instructor: Bill Foche
Obtain the skills required to properly investigate, document, and analyze traffic crashes involving commercial motor vehicles. Collisions involving heavy vehicles often encompass unique documentation and analysis components. In this five-day course, crash investigation students learn to inspect collision-damaged heavy vehicles and gain additional skills for examining commercial vehicle crashes. This is a hands-on, basic investigation course for proper examination, documentation, and evidence preservation with no prerequisites. Curriculum includes lecture and hands-on training with collision-damaged trucks. Forensic work is conducted on the braking systems, suspension systems, wheel systems, and steering systems. Our expert instructors provide foundational information about each component, and students learn to use that knowledge to mechanically examine and test a damaged heavy vehicle. Participants complete this course able to restore a damaged air-braking system on a heavy-duty commercial vehicle to pre-collision condition in order to collect data for calculations used in evaluating the braking efficiency of a heavy-duty commercial vehicle. Students also will be able to identify parts and pieces of steering and suspension systems and explain how the components may have factored into a crash.
Location: Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College
24 Canoe Lane
Asheville, NC 28804
Beyond the Last Precrash Speed Value
DATE: Friday, 05 December 2025 TIME: 12 noon - 2pm EST (GMT-5, or 9am-11am Pacific Time) COST: Free for NAPARS members; $6 for non-members ACTAR: This event will be submitted to ACTAR for CEU consideration.
Crash investigators often open an EDR report, look at the last speed value recorded, and say, "That's the speed at impact." And while it _might_ be true, one can be terribly mistaken. Also, failing to examine the rest of the report leaves a ton of information on the table - yaw rate, steering angle, brake fluid pressure, wheel speeds, and actual precrash acceleration, for instance. This session will explore extracting that data from a report and using it to understand the whole event. We will discuss the mechanisms of traction and steering that manifest in the sensor data.
-A little history -Where is speed data coming from? -Making tabular data useful -Vehicle Dynamics and Friction -Newer = more sensors & more data = opportunity to answer lots of questions: -What is the driver doing with the controls? -What is the car commanding? -What is the chassis experiencing? -Confirming data with multiple sensors
SPEAKER: Wade Bartlett has over 30 years of experience in all aspects of crash reconstruction, focusing heavily on friction, motorcycles, and EDRs. He is a licensed Professional Engineer in NH, holds ACTAR #789, and has been a part-time police officer in NH since 2003. He occasionally teaches for IPTM. He is the administrator of NAPARS.
Wade chasing EDR data around 2004.
Hydroplaning
DATE: Friday, 16 January 2025 TIME: 12 noon - 2pm EST (GMT-5, or 9am-11am Pacific Time) COST: Free for NAPARS members; $6 for non-members ACTAR: This event will be submitted for ACTAR CEU consideration.
ABSTRACT: When available.
Anatomy for the Crash Analyst
DATE: Friday, 13 February 2025 TIME: 12 noon - 2pm EST (GMT-5, or 9am-11am Pacific Time) COST: Free for NAPARS members; $6 for non-members ACTAR: This event will be submitted for ACTAR CEU consideration.
TOPICS:
-Body Position / Location nomenclature
-Bone and Muscle Anatomy - how they are made, how they break/tear
-The 3 stages of a collision
-Skull & Brain - Components and makeup
-Spine - Segments and function
-Bones of the ribcage and the organs within
-Pelvis, Hips, Knees,
-Upper Extremeties (Hands, Elbows, Shoulders)
-Using Medical Records
-Seatbelt injuries
Intro to Occupant Kinematics
DATE: Friday, 13 march 2026 TIME: 12 noon - 2pm EST (GMT-5, or 9am-11am Pacific Time) COST: Free for NAPARS members; $6 for non-members ACTAR: This event will be submitted for ACTAR CEU consideration.
TOPICS: When available.
Bendix Data Recorder
DATE: Friday, 10 April 2026 TIME: 12 noon - 2pm EST (GMT-5, or 9am-11am Pacific Time) COST: Free for NAPARS members; $6 for non-members ACTAR: This event will be submitted to ACTAR for CEU consideration.
SPEAKER: Matt Disogra
2026 Symposium on EDR Research and Testing
April 14th - 16th, 2026
Location: Embassy Suites2321 Lifestyle Road Chattanooga, Tennessee 30742
423.602.5100
NAPARS is proud to continue sponsoring top-quality training around the country and the globe, by bringing the third Symposium on EDR Research and Training to Chattanooga TN. Our host facility is the Embassy Suites Chattanooga Hamilton Place, located approximately 5-7 minutes from the Chattanooga (CHA) Airport.
ROOM RATES:
Suite with one King bed: $149/night
Suite with two Queen beds: $169/night
This link takes you directly to the booking page at the hotel:
Embassy Suites Chattanooga Hamilton Place
I encourage everyone to make their reservations early as we have a limited number of rooms, and based on the last two years, they will go fast. The Embassy Suites will offer a cooked-to-order breakfast each morning and lunch will be served all three days. A Ruth's Chris Steak House is on site, and there are dozens of local restaurants within walking distance of the hotel.
SPEAKERS
Brad Muir: Crash Data Specialist
Greg Russell: JS Held
Matt DiSogra: Delta-V
Nick Manz: Toyota Canada
Tim Reust: Accident Science, Inc.
Shawn Gyorke: Crash Data Services, LLC
Gary Johnson: VEAR
Bill Rose: Bosch
Peter Green: Volkswagen
Weston Brown: Weston Forensics
THREE-DAY CLASS (Live)
This course will teach the reconstructionist how to use Microsoft Excel to solve just about every reconstruction problem that may be encountered. NO prior experience with Excel is necessary. This course begins at Step 1! Some of the topics covered:
Requirements: All students must have completed reconstruction or technical and must have access to a laptop running Microsoft Excel version 2010 or greater.
This course has been approved for 24 ACTAR CEUs
Tuition includes a printed and bound copy of Microsoft Excel for Traffic Crash Reconstruction: A Concise Reference, by Andrew Rich
If you choose to be invoiced for the registration, please have your registration paid in full, no later than 45 days prior to June 2nd, 2026. If you are with a Law Enforcement Agency, and your agency is responsible for your registration and they want to pay by check, please have them contact our Administrator Wade Bartlett at admin@napars.org asap to set the payment up please. Thank you for your understanding.
Fort Worth PD has recommended lodging at the Hyatt Place Fort Worth/Cityview at 5900 Cityview Blvd. Fort Worth, Texas 76132. (The hotel is approximately 7 miles from the facility hosting the class) They have offered a special rate by clicking on the link below.
https://www.hyatt.com/hyatt-place/en-US/dfwzc-hyatt-place-fort-worth-cityview
NAPARS, PO Box 866Farmington NH 03835603.923-8077admin@napars.org
