When an accident occurs and sustained injuries lead to litigation, there are several avenues an attorney may pursue to prove blameworthiness, leading to redress for their injured client.
Accident Reconstruction
The attorney may seek to hire an accident reconstruction expert who can look at factors including the physical evidence found at the scene, eyewitness and police reports, injuries sustained and the damaged vehicles to help determine the cause of the accident.
Human Factors
A human factors expert helps identify how a driver’s attention, perception, decision-making, or fatigue may have contributed to an accident. By analyzing behavior in the context of the driving environment, they uncover critical insights into what the driver saw, how they responded, and whether their actions were reasonable or not.
Digital Forensics
Digital evidence is another resource that can be helpful in determining what contributed to an accident. A digital forensics expert may be hired to look at the crash data found in the vehicle’s black box, which gives information such as the vehicle’s pre- and post-crash speeds, whether the brakes were engaged, or the airbag deployed, etc.
Additionally, since distracted driving accounts for 15% of injury crashes, cell phone forensics can be a valuable resource in determining what happened in the moments leading up to the accident. Our Cell Phone Forensics Experts can look at data pulled from the mobile device or the call data records to determine if the driver was talking, texting, or otherwise using their device before the crash.
Commercial Trucking | Transportation Safety
An attorney may also rely on a Commercial Trucking or Transportation Safety Expert who is well-versed in regulatory compliance. Compliance can be key in determining whether the driver should have been operating a vehicle in the first place, whether the accident was preventable, and more.
Multidisciplinary Team of Experts
Our multidisciplinary team of Experts can assist with all facets of an accident investigation, whether it involves speaking to safety rules and standards followed or violated, reconstructing the actual events of an accident, or examining the digital data contained within the vehicles or cell phones onboard. Common issues they can help with include:
- Distracted Driving
- Driver Standard of Care
- Perception Reaction Time
- Accident Mapping
- Pedestrian, Bicycle, & Motorcycle
- Electronic Logging Devices
- Drowsy Driving
- Skid Analysis
- FMCSA Experts
- Black Box Downloads
- Hours of Service Issues
- Triangulation/GPS
- Crush or Energy Analysis
- Infotainment Data
- Looming
- Towing Liability
- Driver Hiring & Training
- Dashcam Video Analysis
