Tuesday afternoon outside Maycomb. Our plaintiff is driving south on Ridgeline at about forty miles an hour. A truck comes through the intersection against the light, and the front of the car goes into it square. A head-on impact, not a glancing one.
The front airbag never fires. The plaintiff goes into the steering wheel, and the injury is to the neck: pain that has not resolved in the fourteen months since. There is no fracture to point at and nothing on a scan that settles it. Treatment did not start until two days after the collision. And there is a 2019 neck injury from lifting at work: same region, seven years earlier.
The car is totalled. The airbag module comes out of it intact, and its recorded data is now the whole case. Discovery is closed. Both sides have their experts, both sides have read the same download from the same module, and both sides have built a very different story out of it. Everything you can do on this page happens inside that lawsuit: the same record, the same people, six different seats at the table.