Accident Reconstruction
Dangerous Stairway Legal Animation
Safe Stairway Design and Code-Compliant Walking Conditions
Handrails
Even Landing
Uniform Riser Height
This section shows a properly configured stairway with continuous handrails, an even landing surface, and uniform riser heights that allow for predictable and safe foot placement. The animation demonstrates how these features help maintain balance, support natural walking movement, and reduce the risk of a stairway fall.
Dangerous Stairway Conditions and Fall Hazard Visualization
Missing Handrails
Uneven Landing
Non-Uniform Riser Height
This section highlights the unsafe stairway conditions present at the scene, including missing handrails or inadequate handrail extensions, an uneven or excessively sloped landing, and non-uniform riser heights. The animation shows how these stairway defects disrupt normal descent, increase instability, and create a dangerous walking surface that can lead to a misstep and fall.
Ankle Injury Demonstration and Injury Causation Sequence
This section connects the hazardous stairway condition to the plaintiff’s injury by showing the foot and ankle mechanics during the incident. The animation focuses on the twisting motion and resulting ankle fracture, helping explain how the dangerous stairway conditions directly contributed to the injury.
Accident Reconstruction
Accident reconstruction is pivotal in discerning causation. More often than not, the plaintiff and defendant disagree on the events that led up to an incident. There are a few ways to reconcile potential differences, but the strategy you use will depend on a variety of factors.
Some of these are: what happened, whether or not it was avoidable, what the opposition is willing to admit, what experts you’re able to retain, and the evidence your experts are able to find during discovery. With these in mind, it’s possible to create an animation that depicts the scene of the incident with incredible precision.
Legal Animation for Accident Reconstruction
You may ask why a legal animation would be helpful when reconstructing an incident. The answer is simple. Animations demonstrate liability by showing that a collision could have been avoided if a certain party avoided negligent behavior. For example, without the use of a visual aid, it would be challenging to depict to a jury the exact location of a vehicle in reference to a place they might have never been.
Oftentimes, we find that the facts in a case are complex and challenging to understand for the average person. In a society that is inundated with visual media, it’s critical to be able to teach them the ins and outs of a situation in a way that they’ll be able to understand. If you’ve heard somebody say “I’d have to see it to believe it,” then you know the extraordinary value of providing a visual display for the jury in order for them to understand.
Mark Dombroff says it best: “The varied uses of courtroom visual aids are limited only by your imagination. Legal graphic consultants and artists can be an important part of your team, in helping you highlight salient points, increase comprehension, illustrate the unknown and hard-to-imagine, permit audiences to digest large amounts of data quickly and easily, increase critical events in an evidentiary chain, add dramatic effect [and] make your presentation effective.”
Legal Graphics Help Jurors Decide
Jurors are more likely to sympathize with your client’s injuries when they see that the defendant’s actions were blatantly negligent. Adjusting points of view allows jurors to evaluate a driver’s actions from multiple angles. We work with such precision that our animations have actually been used as substantive evidence, not just demonstrative.
In our extensive experience developing crash reconstruction animations, we’ve done trucking collisions, multi-vehicle collisions, low-speed spine injuries, motorcycle collisions, and many other kinds of incidents. We perform FARO scanning, topographical mapping, forensic analysis, and nighttime visibility studies to determine the precise circumstances under which the incident occurred.
Fox Animation Engineering - Industry Leader for Legal Graphics
The overwhelming satisfaction of our clients is living proof that we’re the best in the business for animated engineering. Ultimately, we’re here to streamline the information transfer process from you to the jury. No matter the kind of injury or the circumstances surrounding the incident, we can render a compelling representation that will leave your audience stunned.
