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…
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…
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…
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…
Trained traffic collision reconstructionists can look at the light bulbs inside a vehicle’s headlamps and tail lights to determine if these lights were on or off at the time of collision. In many cases, this information can be quite valuable. If at the time of collision, headlamps or tail lights were not properly illuminated –…
Today, most vehicles on have an onboard computer system, which constantly monitors your driving. In the event that you are involved in a traffic collision, this computer can be imaged and its data used to prove what you were doing when the collision occurred. Retrieved data can include, but is not necessarily limited to: speed,…
From time to time at SRI we receive letters of recommendation or thank you letters for a job well done. Here is a testimonial from Rick A. Lamkin worth sharing: “I would recommend Joey Stidham and SRI to any attorney seeking a motor vehicle or motor carrier accident expert. Joey’s hard work, professional opinion, and…
A young man in McCreary County, KY was in a traffic collision where a man came into his lane and hit him in an offset frontal collision. The KSP after an extended period of time charged our client with Assault 1st for the traffic collision and stated that our client had crossed the center line…
I followed this truck across the parkway a couple of weeks ago and realized just how hard it would be to see this truck at night. The tail lights were completely covered with dirt to the point that I couldn’t see the brake lights when they were applied or they simply weren’t working. Over the…
In a recent case…our client was charged with 2 counts of murder from a traffic collision. One of the key pieces of evidence the prosecution was relying upon was the airbag control module which captured our clients speed at 24 miles over the speed limit. We definitively proved that the “black box” was wrong because the…
Did you know that your car or truck may have a computer on board that can tell a trained analyst what your actions are during a traffic collision? Braking, acceleration, seat belt usage, turn signals speed, whether you steered to avoid the collision and much more may be documented by this system. SRI provides crash,…