Seeing is Believing: Reconstructing Your Palm Beach Truck Accident

It’s been weeks since your Palm Beach semi accident. You’re still in considerable pain, but you’re ready to pursue your case against the trucking company.

Only when you call, you find that the driver’s logs have been “lost.” The evidence at the scene has been cleared away, and the driver is much more alert than he was on the night of the crash. So how can you make sure the judge knows the truth about what happened that night when all the evidence seems to have disappeared?

In cases like this, an experienced Palm Beach truck accident attorney may call in a team to reconstruct the accident. This way, all facts of the case can be clearly seen by the court.

Some factors that may be overlooked without a full truck accident reconstruction:

• Weather. An accident in fair weather is quite different from one in heavy rain, fog, or flooded conditions.
• Location. Even if the debris on the crash site is gone, police are able to pinpoint the precise location of the accident, a major factor if hills, sharp turns or intersection traffic was involved.
• Time. Most accidents occur at night, but even sunrise or fading light can cause sight problems for truckers-and showing the conditions at the same time your accident took place will make this perfectly clear.
• The truck. While vehicle statistics are informative on paper, they don’t necessarily show the full danger of a heavily-loaded commercial vehicle. Reconstructing the truck shows its full size and weight-and potential threat to smaller vehicles.
• Construction. The road may be repaired now, but on the night of the accident there were orange barrels everywhere. The jury will need to see the narrowed lanes and holes left in the road to determine the full danger.
• Road conditions. Road surface, the location of a guardrail-even the placement of a single tree can affect the severity of the injury you sustained in the accident.

While any one of these factors could have played a role in your accident, the details will often be overlooked by a jury unless it is right in front of them. Reenacting an accident not only puts the evidence front and center, but the jury is also taken into the story instead of merely watching it, allowing them to sympathize with your fear of the accident and the pain that resulted.

If you were injured in a Palm Beach truck accident, we can get you the compensation you deserve. Call Fetterman & Associates today at (866) 865-1244 for a free consultation.