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If your situation involved a motor vehicle accident, your attorney may recommend that you hire an accident reconstruction specialist.  Such a witness will typically be most valuable to your case at the earliest possible date after the collision in order to document and measure any skid marks, existing obstructions of your view (such as hedges at an intersection) etc.  An accident reconstruction specialist will almost always have either police or engineering training (or both) that allows him or her to look at the report of your accident and apply engineering standards and other scientific principles (i.e., physics) to reconstruct or recreate what likely caused the accident.
 
These reconstruction experts may even be able to determine who was “at fault,” and other critical details such as the speed of the vehicles at the time of the accident, the braking pattern of all vehicles, or even identify the relative positions of passengers inside the vehicles prior to the collision.  Sometimes these details make the difference between a guilty verdict and an acquittal, or a reduction from a felony vehicular homicide charge to a misdemeanor offense.
 
Your DUI-DWI attorney may suggest the use of a specific accident reconstruction specialist due to a number of factors.  The attorney’s recommendation may be based on who is best for your particular type of accident, or possibly based upon who might have the best courtroom presence at your trial, or who has the best credentials.  With experienced legal counsel, the choice of an expert on reconstruction ultimately might be determined by evaluating who best counters the proposed experts that the State has indicated that it will call upon to testify against you.

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