How Do You Investigate a Car Accident Scene?

A prompt investigation is always key to a successful personal injury claim. It’s important to preserve evidence early, it’s important to speak to witnesses before they disappear or they forget what happened, and it’s also important for documenting precisely what happened to also corroborate and confirm the extent of your your personal injuries. In order to do an effective investigation, we like to get our investigator out early, interview these witnesses, go to the scene of the wreck, you may find a debris field at the scene, you may find evidence at the scene. Oftentimes we’ll canvas an area, whether it be a neighborhood or a highway, to see if there may be a nearby business with camera footage, and we’ll our investigator will knock on doors and try to get that camera footage to help prove what happened. Another thing we do to aid in our investigation is oftentimes, especially with car accident cases, we have the benefit of the police investigation. And police officers often now wear body cameras, and we can often times put in requests with police departments to get that body camera footage which usually doesn’t show the accident itself, but it shows the officer arriving at the scene shortly after a wreck and can capture some really helpful sound bites and conversation of the other driver describing the accident before that other driver maybe has an opportunity to manufacture a story. [jingle] No need to worry, call Cooper Hurley. The car crash experts. 333-3333.