Method and apparatus for using RFID's in the investigation of motor vehicle accidents
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1. A method of identifying a vehicle involved in a collision, said method comprising the steps of:
- a) providing a plurality of RFIDs and program coding said RFIDs with vehicle identification data unique to said vehicle;
b) storing said coded RFIDs in a breakable holder in a manner such that said RFIDs are releasably contained in said holder;
c) attaching the said holder, containing said coded RFIDs, to a collision impact area of said vehicle;
d) releasing said coded and stored RFIDs from said vehicle attached holder and to the scene and location of a collision with another vehicle or object when said collision causes said holder to be broken and the releasably stored RFIDs are released from said holder; and
e) identifying the vehicle involved in said collision by identifying the RFIDs which have been released to the scene of the collision.
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Abstract
This invention involves the use of an apparatus that would be attached to specific areas of motor vehicles. Contained within this apparatus would be a plurality of (code bearing) radio frequency identifier devices or “RFID'"'"'s.” Since these codes would be unique to the motor vehicle to which they were assigned; it would now be possible to identify vehicles involved in hit and run accidents by the evidence they would leave behind—in the form of RFID'"'"'s.
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1. A method of identifying a vehicle involved in a collision, said method comprising the steps of:
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a) providing a plurality of RFIDs and program coding said RFIDs with vehicle identification data unique to said vehicle; b) storing said coded RFIDs in a breakable holder in a manner such that said RFIDs are releasably contained in said holder; c) attaching the said holder, containing said coded RFIDs, to a collision impact area of said vehicle; d) releasing said coded and stored RFIDs from said vehicle attached holder and to the scene and location of a collision with another vehicle or object when said collision causes said holder to be broken and the releasably stored RFIDs are released from said holder; and e) identifying the vehicle involved in said collision by identifying the RFIDs which have been released to the scene of the collision. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
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8. An apparatus for leaving evidence identifying a vehicle at the scene of a collision involving said vehicle, said apparatus comprising
a holder comprising a base, means for connecting the base to a collision impact area of the vehicle, a breakable cover connectable to the base so as to define with the base at least one chamber, each chamber containing at least one passive radio frequency identifier (RFID) device, each said RFID device containing data uniquely identifying said vehicle, said cover being designed to break upon a predetermined impact so as to discharge said RFID device at the scene of the collision.
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