History
Thomas Perkins began his career with a prominent law enforcement agency, in Southern California, in 2007. After being assigned to a contract city, Mr. Perkins provided dedicated on-scene traffic collision investigation services to the public investigating collisions involving property damage only, injury, intoxication and failures to exchange information. The more cases he worked on, the more interested and invested he became in collision analysis. Throughout his 10 years of service in law enforcement he became increasingly determined to provide his knowledge and meticulous services to those throughout California leading him to create Perkins Collision Forensics.
Thomas Perkins
Formal Training
BASIC TRAFFIC COLLISION INVESTIINVESTIGATIONS - Orange County Sheriff's, 2010
INTERMEDIATE TRAFFIC COLLISION INVESTIINVESTIGATIONS - Orange County Sheriff's, 2011
ADVANCED TRAFFIC COLLISION INVESTIGATIONS - Riverside County Sheriff's, 2012
COLLISIONS AT RAILROAD GRADE CROSSINGS - Union Pacific Railroad Police, 2013
TRAFFIC COLLISION RECONSTRUCTION - Contra Costa County Sheriff's, 2014
MOTOR VEHICLE INSPECTION - Riverside County Sheriff's, 2014
AUTO/PED/BICYCLIST RECONSTRUCTION - Riverside County Sheriff's, 2014
VEHICLE DYNAMICS - Riverside County Sheriff's, 2014
EDR DATA ANALYSIS - Rusty Haight, CDR Group, 2017
Continuing Education and Memberships
- LOW SPEED COLLISION ANALYSIS USING IIHS AND CDR DATA - CA2RS, 2015
- DAMAGE ENERGY METHODS - Toby Gloekler, 2015
- BIOMECHANICS: LISTENING TO INJURIES - Jeffrey Pike, 2016
- DISTRACTED DRIVING INVESTIGATIONS - Christopher Sanchez, 2016
- EMERGENCY VEHICLES RECONSTRUCTION - Christopher Daly, 2016
- FORENSIC DEATH INVESTIGATION - Michael Freeman, 2016
- BIOMECHANICS: INJURY ASSESSMENT - Jason Young, 2016
- MOTORCYCLE COLLISION RECONSTRUCTION: PRT, Braking and Sliding Friction - Louis Peck, 2016
- VEHICLE ROLLOVER CRASH TESTING APPLIED TO ACCIDENT RECONSTRUCTION - Louis Peck, 2016
- PASSENGER VEHICLE TIRES - T.J. Tennent, 2016
- COLLISION RECONSTRUCTION, MOTORCYCLE RECONSTRUCTION, PHOTOGRAMMETRY, EDR DATA, COLLISION BIOMECHANICS AND COLLISION INJURY POTENTIAL - MEA Forensics, 2017
Professional Memberships
• California Accident Reconstruction Specialists (CA2RS)