What are the two phases of a traffic accident reconstruction?
Accident reconstruction often, if not always, plays an important role in injury suits. The process typically involves two phases – investigative and analytical. The investigative phase includes the gathering of all facts and information (the police report, photographic evidence, physical measurements of the accident scene and of the vehicles involved repair estimates, and witness statements.) The analytical phase involves analysis of the engineering data collected, testing to determine operator and vehicle performance, and calculations needed to allow experts to model and describe the events and movements before, during, and after the accident. For a trial setting, it is important that the experts present the engineering and physics in a manner that lay jurors can comprehend.
