Learning physically grounded traffic accident reconstruction from public accident reports

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2605.00050v1
• Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2026 14:33:27 GMT
• Title: Learning physically grounded traffic accident reconstruction from public accident reports
• Abstract summary: We formulate accident reconstruction from publicly accessible reports and scene measurements as a parameterized multimodal learning problem.<n>We construct CISS-REC, a dataset of 6,217 real-world accident cases curated from the NHTSA Crash Investigation Sampling System.<n>Our method outperforms representative baselines on CISS-REC, achieving the strongest overall reconstruction fidelity.
• Score: 12.882161839040883
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
• Abstract: Traffic accidents are routinely documented in textual reports, yet physically grounded accident reconstruction remains difficult because detailed scene measurements and expert reconstructions are scarce, costly and hard to scale. Here we formulate accident reconstruction from publicly accessible reports and scene measurements as a parameterized multimodal learning problem. We construct CISS-REC, a dataset of 6,217 real-world accident cases curated from the NHTSA Crash Investigation Sampling System, and develop a reconstruction framework that grounds report semantics to road topology and participant attributes, reconstructs lane consistent pre-impact motion, and refines collision relevant interactions through localized geometric reasoning and temporal allocation. Our method outperforms representative baselines on CISS-REC, achieving the strongest overall reconstruction fidelity, including improved accident point accuracy and collision consistency. These results show that public accident reports can serve as scalable computational substrates for quantitatively verifiable accident reconstruction, with potential value for traffic safety analysis, simulation and autonomous driving research.

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