Re: gruesome question

[Bob Muir <muirrob@UNCG.EDU>]

Kyle,
I have a two volume set of books entitled FORENSIC ACCIDENT
INVESTIGATION: Motor Vehicles -- 2.  Editors are Thomas L. Bohan and
Arthur C. Damask.  It is published by LEXUS Law Publishing (div. of
Reed Elsevier, Inc.)  ISBN 1-55834-680-5

I checked it quickly and did not find an answer to your question.
Asphalt is discussed, as well as, blood patterns. You might contact
Bohan (Ph.D. in physics and law). He visited us as a lecturer
sponsored by AIP.  You might be able to track him down from there.

Good luck!

Bob

On Thu, 24 May 2001 09:51:20 -0400 kyle forinash <kforinas@IUS.EDU>
wrote:

> Sometimes you get asked weird questions, here is one I hope someone
> can give me some insight to (I suppose I could get called to testify
> on this).
>
> The county prosecutor's office called me with the following question.
> A car is sitting on an asphalt roadway. Blood is found around and
> UNDER a tire. But they don't think the car drove over the blood (no
> tracks). Is normal asphalt porous enough for blood to seep under the
> tire without moving the tire?
>
> I'm thinking probably yes (asphalt starts out as separate particles
> so capillary action between the grains could do the job), but is
> there anyway to establish that for sure? How porous is asphalt?
>
> kyle

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