The Importance of Motorcycle Accident Reconstruction Experts in Lawsuits
You know that you weren’t responsible for your motorcycle accident, but it can be hard to convey that truth to others, especially when so many people believe myths and misconceptions about motorcycle accidents. This isn’t just about getting people to believe you, either. Assignment of responsibility in a motorcycle accident determines who will have to pay for your injuries. You shouldn’t have to pay for someone else’s mistake.
This is where a motorcycle accident attorney can help. They understand how to convey the truth of your accident. Often, this depends on the testimony of experts, including motorcycle accident reconstruction experts. Here’s how motorcycle accident reconstruction experts can make a big difference in a lawsuit.
Help Juries Understand a Complex Situation
One of the most important functions that a motorcycle accident reconstruction expert can perform is helping juries understand what happened in the accident. A traffic accident is an extremely complex event, and just listening to a description of it can be confusing for jurors. Especially jurors who have never ridden a motorcycle might have a very hard time understanding the key events in the accident.
Motorcycle accident reconstruction experts can make the events very clear. They know how to explain the accident in understandable ways and can present their explanation with the help of visual aids, including photographs of the accident scene, 3D video reconstructions, and graphics that explain complex facts in a simple way.
Show How Each Party’s Actions Contributed to the Accident
As part of understanding how the accident happened, a motorcycle accident reconstruction expert can help juries understand how your actions and the actions of other drivers might have contributed to the accident.
An accident reconstruction will show how fast each driver was going at the time of an accident. This can help counter the assumption that motorcyclists are usually speeding at the time of an accident. The reconstruction can also show what evasive maneuvers each driver took, and when. This can show that the other driver was inattentive, probably didn’t see you, and didn’t respond until too late.
A reconstruction expert can provide multiple reconstructions with different parameters, such as showing what would have happened if the other driver hadn’t been speeding, had responded to your presence sooner, or had performed different maneuvers. In short, this can help demonstrate how the driver’s actions caused the accident and left you little chance to avoid it.
Demonstrate How the Accident Caused Injuries
Another fact that can be hard for juries to understand is how the accident led to your serious injuries. A description of the accident might not convey just how severe it was, so jurors might have a hard time accepting that your life-changing injuries were the result of the accident.
Jurors who have never ridden a motorcycle, for example, might have no idea about how exposed a rider is when an accident occurs. In the accident reconstruction, they can see how the events occurred, when and how your body was subjected to punishing forces, and how those forces created terrible injuries.
This can also be combined with different reconstructions to show how different choices on the part of the driver might have made a difference to your injuries. They can see how your injuries might have been nothing more than scrapes and bruises if the other driver wasn’t speeding, for example.
Provide an Objective Perspective
Another convincing element that a motorcycle accident reconstruction expert brings is their objective, unbiased opinion. Sometimes, a motorcycle accident lawsuit might seem to a jury as if there are two people pointing fingers and each is trying to benefit from making the other person look bad. This is where some of those myths and misconceptions about motorcycle accidents can hurt you. Juries can be less likely to accept your testimony over the other driver’s.
However, a motorcycle accident reconstruction expert isn’t trying to make anybody look bad, they’re just trying to recreate the circumstances of the accident. They aren’t listening to the accounts of interested parties, they look at the physical evidence of the scene. Tire marks. Broken glass. Impact damage on the vehicles, traffic barriers, and roadside objects like buildings and trees. These provide an impartial view of the accident circumstances. This keeps your lawsuit from coming down to whether the jury believes you or the driver. That removes a huge barrier for motorcycle riders who might enter the courtroom facing a credibility gap with the jury.
Let Pushchak Law Help
Getting compensation for your motorcycle accident injuries can be challenging, but it’s worth it. When the other driver is responsible for your injuries, you deserve compensation for medical bills, lost wages, and the loss of quality of life. At Pushchak Law, we’ve made motorcycle accidents a primary focus of our practice, and we can help you get the compensation you deserve using tools like motorcycle accident reconstruction experts.
In addition, when you work with Denver motorcycle accident lawyer Brian Pushchak, you will benefit from his exclusive Informed Decisions™ Approach. This approach starts with us listening to your situation and your goals. We want to know your priorities so we can build a legal strategy that targets those things that matter most to you. We will give you our expert advice so you can make the best decisions for your case. In addition, we will make ourselves personally available to you. You can reach us when you have questions, concerns, or decisions to make about your case. Your case remains yours, and you are always in charge – we are just here to advise and represent you.
To learn more about how Pushchak Law can help you, please contact us today for a free initial consultation. We serve clients in Denver and the surrounding areas.
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