  We compute the final kinetic energies of the fragments emitted in the light
charged particle accompanied cold fission of $^{252}$Cf taking into account the
ground state quadrupole deformation and the finite-size effects of the
fragments and integrating the equations of motion for a three-body system
subjected only to Coulomb forces. The initial conditions for the trajectory
calculations were derived in the frame of a deformed cluster model which
includes also the effect due to the absorbative nuclear part. Although the
distributions of initial kinetic energies is rather broad we show that in cold
fission the initial conditions can be better determined than in the usual
spontaneous fission.
