Accident Reconstruction
Clearly Show Spinal Injuries
Spinal Injuries shown with animated overlay following a
low-speed impact
Fox AE Engineering team worked closely with a biomechanical engineer who had given a specific g-force range, and our team was able to superimpose that. Our team was able to use all of the engineering data provided and match the motion.
The hit, as seen on the video, looked very small, but we were able to show the consequences of that hit and how serious they were.
The client was very satisfied with our work, which finally brought him big settlement.
Was the force of impact strong enough to cause severe injuries to the bus driver?
Was the force of impact strong enough to cause severe injuries to the bus driver?
Exhibit O – Actual video of the impact
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Actual video of the impact with 3D Model Overlay
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This Spinal Overlay clearly depicts the injury incurred to the spine after a sideswipe accident.
Lower Back Injuries
Neck Injuries
- Disc Herniation at L1-L2
- Disc Herniation at L2-L3
- Disc Bulging at L3-L4
- Disc Bulging at L4-L5
- Disc Herniation at L4-L5
- Frontal Bone Bleed at C1-C2
- Disc Herniation at C5-C6
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
Our industry-leading legal graphics have been used by some of the top attorneys in the country. We’re able to achieve this level of excellence because our engineers are the animators. We have certified medical illustrators, medical practitioners, and 3D modeling engineers that collaborate together to create our state-of-the-art animations.
