Preserve the Evidence! Data Recorders and Your Illinois Wreck

Event Data Recorder (EDR)

Is the insurance company hiding evidence that you need to prove your case?

Nearly every new vehicle on the road today is equipped with a “black box” system called an Event Data Recorder (EDR). An EDR is a memory device that records vehicle data information. It can be used to determine a vehicle’s rate of speed at the time of a crash, whether the brakes were applied, and whether passengers within the vehicle were wearing their seatbelts. If your are involved in a crash, an EDR will contain information important to your case. Because insurance companies are often given control of damaged vehicles, they will control access to the black box. Many times they send these damaged vehicles to the crushing yard to be destroyed, along with the proof you need to win your case.

You cannot sit back and allow central evidence to be destroyed. You need a law firm that will stop the insurance from destroying this evidence, and analyze the data you need to prove your case. Once an insurance company is notified by a law office to preserve evidence, they must do so or face legal consequences. Your car and/or the car of the person who hit you may be your best eyewitness. Don’t let an insurance company take that witness away from you. Call The Fisk & Monteleone Law Firm immediately to prevent the insurance company from hurting your case.