Finding Vehicles After a Collision – Don't Take “No” for an Answer
It's in the Details from Dial Engineering Welcome to another edition of It’s in the Details, a short newsletter intended to provide helpful information for those in the litigation industry who deal with forensic engineering experts and their work. Finding Vehicles After a Collision – Don't Take “No” for an Answer Given the wealth of event-related electronic data stored in modern automobiles, getting access to a vehicle involved in a collision can provide key evidence for use in crash...
3 months ago • 1 min readResending: A New Source for Crash Scene Imagery - GeoSocial Sweeps
It's in the Details from Dial Engineering Welcome to another edition of It’s in the Details, a short newsletter intended to provide helpful information for those in the litigation industry who deal with forensic engineering experts and their work. A New Source for Crash Scene Imagery - GeoSocial Sweeps It’s happened to all legal-forensic teams: you are investigating a significant vehicle crash, but perhaps inexplicably, you are not aware of the police or anyone else having taken photographs...
6 months ago • 1 min readResending: Is the EDR Data Related to Your Crash?
It's in the Details from Dial Engineering Welcome to another edition of It’s in the Details, a short newsletter intended to provide helpful information for those in the litigation industry who deal with forensic engineering experts and their work. Is the EDR Data Related to Your Crash? Our firm has seen a move by some of our clients to obtain their own kit to download automobile black boxes, also known as Event Data Recorders, or EDRs. Not all law firms or insurance companies are equipped to...
7 months ago • 2 min readReconstructing Events from Digital Imagery – from Novelty to Necessity
It's in the Details from Dial Engineering Welcome to another edition of It’s in the Details, a short newsletter intended to provide helpful information for those in the litigation industry who deal with forensic engineering experts and their work. Reconstructing Events from Digital Imagery – from Novelty to Necessity The proliferation of digital imagery from smart phones, dash cameras, body-worn cameras, and CCTV cameras in recent years has been a boon to those investigating and...
8 months ago • 1 min readTime is of the Essence
It's in the Details from Dial Engineering Welcome to another edition of It’s in the Details, a short newsletter intended to provide helpful information for those in the litigation industry who deal with forensic engineering experts and their work. Time is of the Essence As many people are aware, the pace of justice can be slow. However, when it comes to gathering available forensic evidence before it disappears, the clock ticks rapidly and relentlessly. When dealing with a recent loss event...
11 months ago • 2 min readOdds Are Those Crashed Cars Have a Lot They Want to Tell You
It's in the Details from Dial Engineering Welcome to another edition of It’s in the Details, a short newsletter intended to provide helpful information for those in the litigation industry who deal with forensic engineering experts and their work. The vehicles involved in most crashes are treasure troves of electronic data As you may be aware, most road-going passenger vehicles produced in the last twenty-plus years possess some type of electronic device which can record crash data, such as...
12 months ago • 1 min read It's in the Details - Supplying Your Forensic Expert with Digital Photos
It's in the Details from Dial Engineering Welcome to the inaugural edition of It’s in the Details, a short newsletter intended to provide helpful information for those in the litigation industry who deal with forensic engineering experts and their work. “Why does my forensic expert bug me to get original files of digital photos?” In this edition, we touch upon a topic common to almost every forensic analysis: digital photos supplied by third parties. Digital photos can serve as key...
about 1 year ago • 2 min read