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In the case of multiple pileup, the order of collisions is very important issue because it clarifies who is responsible for the accident. To determine the order of collisions, several kinds of method can be adopted, and most suitable method is different case by case. Recently accident scene recording devices such as CCTV and vehicle accident recorder become popular, and considerable number of vehicles is equipped with that kind of devices. Since those devices are more trustworthy than witnesses and more intuitive than marks left on accident vehicles because those can show the accident scene vividly after the fact, the data recorded in those devices can be also useful to determine the order of collisions in the case of multiple pileup. In this report, a case of pileup of three vehicles is introduced in which the order of collisions is determined by analysis of the video recorded in a CCTV installed in the second vehicle from the head.