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Crosswalk Vigilante
Recently there have been reports of residents taking it upon themselves to paint their own crosswalks along roadways in cities such as Seattle and Los Angeles. As an accident reconstructionist…
Garage Door Injuries
Garage door mishaps injure an estimated 20,000 people a year. While there are numerous ways a garage door can cause injury to a person, the three most common are: The…
Riding The Hook
Tree services and cranes often overlap in day-to-day work. With the use of cranes becoming more common at tree sites, one question continues to arise and is in constant debate:…
Who’s at the Head of Your Bed? Anesthesia Delivery in the United States
You are greeted in the pre-operative area before your surgery by an anesthesia provider. Is this the same person who will be delivering your anesthesia care during your procedure? Maybe,…
Drinking and Darting Don’t Mix
A box truck was double-parked on the right side of a roadway. As a transit bus was passing the box truck, an intoxicated pedestrian stepped out from in front of…
Wi-Fi Network, Forensics, and Yet Another Way to Determine
A User’s Location
When a device is connected to a Wi-Fi network, it typically stores the credentials for future use, allowing it to automatically reconnect to the Wi-Fi network the next time it…
Scooter Self Stoppage: Electromagnetic Interference with Electric Scooter Controls Cause Injury
Case Description: The defendant suffered significant injury while riding on an urban street when the front wheel of an electric scooter braked unexpectedly, propelling them forward over the handlebars of…
Forensic Engineering Investigation of Electrical and Electronic Causes of an Industrial Equipment Failure
The shrink-wrap failures had been isolated to a group of several transistors within the electro-mechanical modules within the equipment, but the root cause of those transistors failing had not been…
Picnic Table Tipover
Incident Description: On a warm summer evening, a family was attending a festival in a municipal park. They had purchased food, found a picnic table where a few other people…
