Vehicle telematics of vehicle crashes

A method for automatically generating a documentation of a crash involving a vehicle, the method comprising:

• a processor executing instructions for receiving telematics data produced by one or more sensors associated with a telematics device at the vehicle, the sensors including at least one of an accelerometer, a speedometer, a barometer, a gyroscope, a compass, and a position sensor;
• based on the telematics data, the processor executing instructions for determining a start time of the vehicle crash that is a beginning of a vehicle crash period and an end time of the vehicle crash period, the vehicle crash period including one or more impacts of the vehicle, the start time and the end time being determined based on comparisons of (a) features corresponding to values of telematics data in time segments of the telematics data with (b) predetermined thresholds for the features;
• the processor executing instructions for determining, based on the telematics data, one or more metrics associated with the vehicle during the vehicle crash period;
• and
• the processor automatically generating, based on the one or more metrics, a human-readable prose documentation of the vehicle crash comprising a narrative description of features of the vehicle crash during the vehicle crash period, the narrative description including one or more common phrases and one or more of the determined metrics, and
• communicating the narrative human-readable prose documentation to a device for presentation in an audible form or a readable form to a user.