Arnold G. Wheat

ACTAR Number 226

Mr. Wheat has more than 40 years' experience in the field of Traffic Accident Investigation and Reconstruction. His professional experience background in law enforcement includes employment as a police officer with the Arvada (Colorado) Police Department and the State of New York. He has received judicial approval to offer expert witness testimony in the areas of Traffic Accident Investigation and Reconstruction in numerous U.S. District Courts and in numerous judicial districts throughout Colorado, Florida, Hawaii, Idaho, Kansas, Montana, South Dakota, Nebraska, Tennessee and Wyoming. He is author of the book, "Accident Investigation", co-author of two additional instructional manuals and has had numerous technical articles published in professional journals pertaining to traffic accident investigation and collision reconstruction.

Mr. Wheat has taught courses in Accident Investigation and Reconstruction for many law enforcement and traffic safety organizations, including the American Trucking Association, the Rocky Mountain Institute for Transportation Safety, the Colorado Motor Carrier Association, the Institute of Police Technology and Management, the North American Transportation Management Institute and the Society of Accident Reconstructionists. He is past Chairman of the Accreditation Commission for Traffic Accident Reconstruction (ACTAR), and was a participant on the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's (NHTSA) Task Force on "Minimum Training Criteria for Police Traffic Accident Reconstructionists". As the current Chairman of the Society of Accident Reconstructonists (SOAR), Mr. Wheat serves as an editor and contributor to the quarterly magazine, The SOARce, an instructional publication for accident investigators and reconstructionists.