John Hill – Law Offices of John E. Hill

$4.7M Settlement: Animated Collision Magnifies Pedestrian’s Pelvic Destruction

Animation
Forensic
Crash Reconstruction
Personal Injury
Case Study
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After a security guard “dozed off” while driving through a parking garage, he collided with the back of a parked truck where a father was waking up his daughter in the backseat. The impact forced the back of the truck into another parked vehicle, violently pinning the father between the two vehicles and severely damaging his pelvic anatomy.

Challenge

The security guard woke up and stepped out of his vehicle to see the screaming victim trapped within the carnage he had caused. A bystander got into the security guard’s vehicle and reversed it in an attempt to free the father but he remained stuck. A second witness entered the vehicle the Plaintiff was pinned up against, moved it forward, and the victim fell to the ground in agonizing pain as his daughter witnessed the entire event from the backseat of his truck.

The Plaintiff suffered catastrophic fractures throughout his pelvic ring, severe disruption to his urethra, ruptures to his bladder, painful edemas and abrasions throughout his suprapubic area, and lacerations with bleeding around his right thigh.

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Approach

John Hill, Esq., needed to emphasize the egregious level of reckless conduct exhibited by the security guard in causing this collision, and he needed to summarize the brutal pelvic injuries the Plaintiff suffered as a result of this gross negligence. We delivered a hybrid animation that included:

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Forensic Animation to accurately reconstruct the collision and establish gross negligence on behalf of the Defendant.
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Animated Moment in Time to show the initial injuries the Plaintiff suffered after he was crushed between the two vehicles.
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Cinematic Summary of Injuries (CSI) to break down each of these injuries in three-dimensional detail.

Establishing Gross Negligence

The first animation reconstructs what happened, which helped establish liability by demonstrating how easily the Defendant could have avoided the collision had he not “dozed off. We worked with Mr. Hill’s crash reconstruction experts to accurately recreate exactly what happened in the moments before, during, and acfter the Plaintiff plowed into the truck and swung it into the Plaintiff, pinning him to the side of the other parked vehicle.

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The first part of the animation introduces what happened.

Showing a Painful 'Moment in Time'

Immediately after the collision, the camera zooms in on on the father as he’s pinned between the two vehicles to show what was happening inside his body moments after impact.

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After showing the collision, the animation zooms in on the Plaintiff’s injuries the moment after impact.

Cinematic Summary of Injuries

Finally, the Cinematic Summary of Injuries (CSI) breaks down each of the plaintiff’s injuries in realistic, three-dimensional detail using radiographic films to ground accuracy.

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The CSI Animation summarizes the victim’s brutal injuries.

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