What determines who is at fault in a car accident?

Stephen D. Phillips: His answer is about evidence: fault is shown through witness statements and physical evidence, and physical evidence such as skid marks does not lie and is not subject to witness bias.

Attorney Stephen D. Phillips · Car Accidents · 52-second answer

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The different types of evidence to prove a case are usually witness statements, what they saw, what they heard, and physical evidence. The best example of physical evidence is if a driver of a car says, I was only going five miles an hour when I hit the other car, we say okay, but you left 60 or 70 feet of skid marks going into the other car. You couldn’t have been going five miles an hour when you hit your brakes. Physical evidence doesn’t lie and it isn’t subject to the bias of witnesses, eyewitnesses.

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