Accident Reconstruction

LawFX engineers provide detailed, evidence-based analyses of complex motor vehicle collisions, accident investigations, and incidents involving heavy equipment and machinery on or off-road. We convey our findings with clear and powerful demonstratives, including well-documented reports, presentations, and animations so that our clients understand the methodology and basis for our conclusions and are equipped to communicate the findings to less technical audiences.

Witness statements and expert testimony can assist the re-constructionist in determining how or why the accident happened. These documents are reviewed and considered when forming conclusions. Accident reconstruction is looking at all the data available.

Another significant part of the accident scene investigation is determining if the roadway contributed to the cause of the accident. We inspected the roadway for safety concerns such as a lack of traffic control devices and signage, lack of roadway maintenance, limited sight distance, lack of roadway maintenance, poor lighting, poor roadway design, poor stormwater drainage and other roadway defects.

An accident reconstruction expert is someone who uses their knowledge of physics and engineering to analyze how a collision occurred. They can determine things like the speed of the vehicles involved, the angle of impact, and whether or not the use of lights and turn signals could have prevented the accident.

The following 10 steps briefly summarize the procedure for investigating and reconstructing an automobile accident, even though not all steps are performed in each accident case:

Our teams provide technically superior accident reconstruction analyses and clearly and effectively communicate our findings. Our consultants apply the appropriate methodologies for the situation and provide in-depth technical solutions. These methodologies include computer simulation, animation, and full-scale crash testing. The experience gained from over 50 years of testing and research programs at LawFX gives us unique technical knowledge and insight to provide rigorous scientific analyses to evaluate vehicle dynamics, impacts, and occupant kinematics.

LawFX's geographically distributed team of experts provides rapid response services to document and preserve evidence from involved vehicles and the incident site using the latest equipment and methodologies, including drones (UAV) drones, 3D laser scanners, and software tools to collect electronic vehicle data related to crash events.

Vehicles are inspected and analyzed to determine how vehicles collided, determine vehicle speeds, and check for defects that might have contributed to the accident.

Our multidisciplinary teams - made up of vehicle, mechanical, electrical, and material engineers and scientists in biomechanics, data, thermal, and human factors practices - analyze on-road and off-road accidents, as well as incidents involving product failures or alleged product failures.