Soon SRI will be celebrating our 23rd year in business. When I formed this company my goal was to have the best trained investigators and to stay on the forefront of technology. 23 years later that is still our goal. Today Becca Stidham completed her fourth week of training to become a traffic collision reconstructionist.…
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We hope everyone had a safe, healthy and happy New Year! In honor of ringing in another year, we thought we would take a trip down memory lane recapping where we’ve been, where we are and where we are headed. From training and certifications to updated technology and programs, we are proud of the journey…
Congratulations, Joey! Joey Stidham, owner of SRI, passed his CDL testing and is now officially a Class A CDL driver! In this training, Joey learned the right way to operate a commercial motor vehicle. To our knowledge, there is not another traffic reconstructionist in the state of Kentucky who also has a CDL license…
SRI is proud to announce a 7.1 million dollar verdict awarded to the clients of Attorney Kyle Roby of English Lucas Priest & Owsley, LLP where owner, Joseph Stidham testified as a traffic reconstructionist and a truck safety expert. This particular case involved an illegal trucking company that came upon a former wreck scene on…
Joseph Stidham, our lead traffic collision reconstructionist and owner of SRI, testified in Louisville yesterday in US District Court in a traffic collision case involving a tractor trailer that ran a stop sign. The Jury AWARDED $646,000.00 to the plaintiff and put 100% fault on the trucking company. We would like to thank attorneys…
We are excited to celebrate our 20th anniversary this month! We often share our top of the line technologies and training certifications but on this special anniversary I wanted to share the story of our humble beginnings to where we are today. SRI was founded in July 1998 and by the end of…
We at SRI would like to thank Shane Hall for allowing us to assist him in a CMV collision that he had recently in the state of Virginia. In the early morning hours his client was traveling south-west on VA route 624 when he encountered a coal truck traveling north-east on VA route 624. During…
Hired For CMV Collision? We Can Help! We have the resources necessary to position your case for the highest possibility of success. State of the art equipment, unmatched experience and the latest technology. SRI is trained and credentialed to handle virtually every need when it comes to a collision investigation.SRI can provide cutting edge 3-D animations to…
More Expertise. More Experience. More Locations. Please join me in congratulating and welcoming Tony Becker to the SRI team. Tony has been a traffic collision re-constructionist since 1988 and has taught Traffic Reconstruction at IPTM (Institute of Police Technology and Management) for the past 25 years as well as being the assistant director of IPTM. He is a consultant…
Over the past several months SRI assisted Jerry Cox Esq. and Jim Cox Esq. to defend Dwight Hughes against the charges of Murder and Assault in the 1st degree. With the help of SRI’s crime scene reconstruction team and the physical evidence, Mr. Hughes was found not guilty on Friday, March 18, 2016 on all…
Today’s commercial vehicles are rapidly becoming more and more digitalized. There are commercial trucks that are totally autonomous already at work in the United States and Europe. One of the core principles of SRI is to be on the cutting edge of technology in the field. To that end, Joseph Stidham, owner of SRI, has just completed…
Traffic collisions are caused by 3 factors. (1) Environmental Factors, (2) Human Factors, (3) Mechanical Factors. We at SRI routinely find that the mechanical component of traffic collisions is overlooked by investigators. It is rare that vehicles are inspected by mechanics and even more rare that the wheel and brake systems are taken apart and…
We at SRI are investigating a defect in 2014 and 2015 jeep products. Currently we are aware of 7 vehicles in the Hazard KY area with sudden acceleration and transmission problems. We know that there have to be more issues with these vehicles. Jeep solution to our client at this point has been to tell…
Given the current state of technology and electronics-derived knowledge, I find myself being continuously asked this question – “Are airbag control modules always accurate?” The simple answer is if all the equipment on the vehicle is to manufacturer specifications and the tires are not slipping, then “yes.” If the tires are slipping, or the mechanics…