How Important is Preserving Evidence?
How Important is Preserving Evidence?
If you have been involved in a car accident, truck accident or any vehicle accident, one of the most important pieces of evidence in your case is the vehicle itself. To a Los Angeles Accident Attorney tt is critical that the vehicle be preserved in its crashed state, unaltered, should the injured victims or their families decide to pursue a personal injury claim. Why is this important? Because, in a car accident case, an accident reconstruction expert will need to examine and measure the crashed vehicles to determine various facts such as the speed at which the vehicle was traveling.
If an auto product defect caused the accident or if a product failure resulted in serious injuries, then the expert will investigate whether the vehicle performed or failed to properly perform in protecting the driver or the passenger. This could mean seatbelt defects, seatback failure, tire defects, engine defects, roof crush, airbag defects or other design defects that may have caused the vehicle to become unstable and crash. In such cases, if you lost the vehicle, you lose the case and the compensation that you were otherwise entitled to receive.