Each of our experts have great credentials and many years of experience in automotive safety or related fields. Please contact us if you would like more information on any of our experts.

Donald Friedman
Mr. Friedman has been active in creative and innovative vehicle design for more than fifty years.  He has been responsible for the design, development and testing of six original vehicles, as well as alternative occupant protection and crashworthiness modifications for 13 production cars. He is proudest of his work on the Sidewinder missile, the Lunar Rover, the Minicars Research Safety Vehicle, air bags, offset frontal impact and rollover occupant safety, and his most recent efforts in human safety research.  He has authored more than 80 technical papers on these subjects and the government has published more than fifty of his research contract reports.  In the last 17 years he has consulted and testified in over five hundred product liability litigation cases integrating accident reconstruction, occupant kinematics, injury mechanisms, vehicle and restraint design, as well as computer analysis, simulation and validation of alternate injury mitigation means.

Carl E. Nash, Ph.D.
Dr. Nash has worked in the field of automotive safety for more than thirty years.  After earning his doctorate, he became a public interest auto safety advocate.  As a Senior Executive with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration for 16 years, he directed programs in safety standards engineering, crash investigation, and evaluation.  He also conducted research and published in the field, and taught graduate courses in motor vehicle safety.  Dr. Nash has substantial experience in crash investigation and analysis from (1) his government experience where he directed the development of training and quality programs for the National Accident Sampling System, (2) teaching courses in crash investigation, modeling and data analysis at the George Washington University, and (3) the detailed reconstruction of dozens of crashes.  He has written extensively on how injuries occur in rollover crashes and has worked on issues of vehicle handling, structural performance, restraints, energy absorption, and the economics of motor vehicle safety, regulation, and has conducted statistical analysis of motor vehicle crash data.

Terence Honikman, Ph.D.
Dr. Honikman has been providing expert forensic engineering consultant services since 1986.  He has analyzed more than four thousand automobile accidents and testified in over 350 trials as an accident reconstruction and biomechanical expert.  He has designed and performed crash tests in which live humans as well as crash test dummies were subjected to crash forces and accelerations.  He also served as an instructor of forensic engineering at the University of California at Santa Barbara.  Dr. Honikman’s litigation experience covers the reconstruction of vehicular accidents, the biomechanics of impact trauma and human impact tolerance, low speed automobile impact dynamics analysis, the “seat belt defense,” and automobile product defect cases.  His clients have successfully employed his broad expertise across a broad spectrum of cases including pedestrian impacts and complex collisions involving all manner of vehicles from tricycles and sport utility vehicles to buses and heavy earth moving equipment.

Fred Carlin, Ph.D.
Dr. Carlin has worked in the field of human safety in the vehicular environment for the last 8 years.  Dr. Carlin has been actively concerned with human safety including environmental safety, radiation safety, medical instrumentation as well as occupant safety for the past thirty years.  He has published many papers on his various studies on safety, and continues to apply his multi-disciplinary experience in the study of vehicular safety. Dr. Carlin worked with Tony Sanses at Biomechanics Institute as a research scientist in the Biomedical Engineering and Biomechanical Engineering studies and evaluation of injury mechanics and mechanisms. He conducted research and studies in the physiology and mechanics of human impact injury. His primary studies concerned brain and spinal cord injury and secondary studies included blunt injury to thorax (heart and great vessels), abdomen (hepatic and splenic injury) and crushing injury to extremities.

Jack Bish, Ph.D.
Dr. Bish has consulted in the field of automotive safety for 5 years.  After earning his doctorate in mechanical engineering with a focus on the design of composite structures, he began working for Friedman Research Corporation, consulting on all aspects of automobile safety.  During his tenure at FRC, he also taught a graduate level engineering course at the University of California, Santa Barbara on plate and shell structures.  After a brief hiatus as a research and development engineer at a manufacturing company, he returned to automotive safety with Xprts, LLC where he focuses on rollover accidents and the safety issues involved with these accidents.  He has designed and conducted numerous tests of vehicle performance and has published extensively on automobile safety issues.