An Approach to Exonerate Innocent Suspects in Hit-And-Run Accidents via Route Reconstruction

Abstract

We propose an approach to exonerate innocent suspects in hit-and-run accidents. This helps wrongly suspected drivers to support their innocence and eases the investigation of hit-and-run accidents by enabling law enforcement authorities to effectively reduce the number of suspects. We are developing an algorithm that automatically reconstructs the routes traveled by suspect drivers using vehicle data recorded while driving. In contrast, existing approaches only offer manual or semi-automated route reconstruction. If our algorithm cannot reconstruct a route that includes the accident location, the suspect driver is most likely innocent.