Mark Wright:
Mark Wright has over 30 years of collision reconstruction experience, serving as a full-time collision reconstruction investigator, trainer, and program coordinator for 25 years with the Ontario Provincial Police. He graduated from the University of Toronto with a Bachelor of Arts degree, and has enhanced his knowledge of collision reconstruction through regular collision reconstruction related course attendance, crash testing, and investigative research. He has attended over 2000 hours of collision reconstruction related training since 1990.
Mark has been ACTAR accredited since 2002, and served as a member of the governing board of directors from 2003 to 2022. In addition to serving as the ACTAR Chair for 4 years, he also served on the crash testing committee for almost 20 years. He serves as the Ontario Chair of CATAIR (Canadian Association of Technical Accident Investigators and Reconstructionists), a position he has held since 2014.
In order to demonstrate the principles of linear momentum and evaluate data acquired from vehicle event data recorders, Mark has participated in over 60 live staged collisions.
Mark has combined his passion for collision reconstruction with his interest in recreational vehicles, conducting hundreds of tests with ATV’s, Snowmobiles, Motorcycles, Bicycles, Pedestrians, Boats and PWC’s.
In order to evaluate the accuracy of angular momentum, Mark has conducted over 15 motorcycle-to-vehicle staged collisions, and 1 snowmobile-to-vehicle staged collision. Additionally, he has witnessed over 10 other motorcycle-to-vehicle collisions. To evaluate sliding friction on multiple surfaces, Mark has conducted over 100 motorcycle drop-and-slide tests, and over 100 motorcycle braking tests.
Mark has conducted more than 50 pedestrian collisions to analyze the accuracy of pedestrian reconstruction formulae.
Furthering the development of a marine reconstruction course, Mark participated in staged boat collisions, and has conducted braking friction testing with personal watercraft.
For over 20 years, Mark has been researching ATV collision investigation techniques, including braking, rolling friction, rollover collisions and one ATV-to-vehicle collision. He has authored one published research paper on this subject.
He has also conducted research into Snowmobile collision investigation techniques, including braking, acceleration, rolling friction, airborne analysis, multiple snowmobile-to-pole collisions and one snowmobile-to-car collision.
In addition to conducting hundreds of vehicle braking tests, rolling friction tests and airborne tests, Mark has conducted hundreds of critical speed yaw tests on vehicles with and without electronic stability control, and authored a published research paper on the accuracy of measuring techniques related to ESC Critical Speed Yaw.
Mark is trained in the following event data recorder analyst techniques:
Airbag control modules
BERLA Infotainment systems
Commercial Motor Vehicle engine control modules
He has been instructing at all levels, from entry level to advanced collision reconstruction courses for over 20 years, and was instrumental in developing current training standards for the Technical Collision Investigation and Collision Reconstruction courses taught at the Ontario Provincial Police Academy and the Ontario Police College.