Background & Qualifications
Donald E. Smith Jr.
EDUCATION
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Graduate of Kalamazoo Valley
Community College, Kalamazoo, Mi. Law Enforcement Associates Degree.
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Graduate of Western Michigan
University, Kalamazoo, Mi. Criminal Justice - Major and Public
Administration - Minor.
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Police Traffic Accident
Investigation Courses One through Eight - Michigan
State University, East
Lansing, Mi.
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Accident Reconstruction
- Northwestern University, Evanston, Il.. An eighty hour course
teaching reconstruction techniques for auto accidents, commercial
vehicles, trucks, buses, car-pedestrians, occupant kinematics and
conservation of linear momentum in various accident scenarios.
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Vehicle/Train Accidents
- Institute of Police Technology and Management, University of North
Florida, Jacksonville, Fl.. A three day course dealing with the
dynamics, investigation and reconstruction of vehicular/train accidents.
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Advanced Reconstruction With
Microcomputers - Institute of Police Technology and Management,
University of North Florida, Jacksonville, Fl.. A week of advanced
reconstruction using SLAM programs as well as use of CRASH III, AI Tools
and AI Tools for Truck and Cycle crashes.
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MATAI Training seminar -
A two day training course teaching the principals of photogrametry, ABS
braking systems and the use of computer accident simulation/animation as
well as the use of RECFORMS/RECTEC computer reconstruction.
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Advanced Computer
Reconstruction With WinSmac- Institute of Police Technology and
Management, University of North Florida, Jacksonville, Fl. Four day
course in advanced computer reconstruction and simulation of traffic
accidents using the WINSMAC and WINCRASH computer programs.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Private Investigator Donald E. Smith is licensed
through the State of Michigan, License #1146 and the State of Florida,
License #A2300085 with a reciprocity agreement in the State of Indiana. For more than twenty-years
he has been directly involved with the investigation/reconstruction of approximately two-thousand
accidents of all types and the reconstruction of approximately two-hundred and
seventy traffic fatalities.
COURT EXPERIENCE
Initially Don Smith qualified as an Expert Witness
in accident reconstruction in the District and Circuit Courts of Kalamazoo
County. He is also well experienced in accident reconstructions in the
following Michigan counties: Allegan, Barry, Berrien, Branch, Calhoun, Cass,
Eaton, Grand Traverse, Ingham, Ionia, Jackson, Kalamazoo, Kent, Lake, Mason,
Ottawa, St. Joseph, Van Buren, Washtenaw, Wayne, and Wexford as well as the
following Indiana counties: Elkhart, Marshall, and St. Joseph, and
in the Florida county of
Hillsborough.
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