What evidence is needed to support my personal injury case?

Stephen J. Phillips: There are two kinds of evidence: direct evidence, such as eyewitness testimony or video, and circumstantial evidence, such as tire marks, brake marks and debris fields. You want both.

Attorney Stephen J. Phillips · Personal Injury FAQs · 43-second answer

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There’s really two types of evidence in a personal injury, car crash, or car collision case. There’s what’s called direct evidence, which is eyewitness testimony, or video footage. And then there’s what’s called circumstantial evidence. And circumstantial evidence is things like tire treads, or tire marks, or brake marks on the pavement, or debris fields and where the debris went in the intersection. You really would like to have both circumstantial evidence and direct evidence.

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