Guardrail Expert Witnesses
What is a guardrail expert witness?
Guardrail expert witness candidates are typically licensed professional engineers with extensive experience in highway design, highway safety, traffic engineering, civil engineering, and/or transportation engineering. Guardrail expert witnesses often have advanced degrees (PE, MD, PhD) and years of expert witness experience in litigation matters related to traffic and highway safety.
What types of cases require a guardrail expert witness?
The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) supports State and local governments in the design, construction, and maintenance of the US highway system, and oversees its safety and technology, including the use of guardrails. A guardrail expert witness could provide expertise in traffic safety matters or provide expertise in a personal injury case.
Guardrail expert witness case examples
Cahn Litigation Services has completed numerous searches for an expert witness in the transportation safety area, providing candidates for each case to the specifications provided by the attorney in charge. Representative cases have encompassed:
- Arizona highway fatalities and roadside safety,
- accident investigation involving traffic signal placement in New York,
- Connecticut highway construction management,
- guardrail crash cushion installation in Alabama,
- pavement marking surrounding a guardrail in Michigan,
- Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) highway work zone traffic control regulations,
- bridge rail failure in Maine,
- construction zone traffic control guardrails in New Jersey,
- motorcycle accident reconstruction in Florida, and
- Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices for Streets and Highways (MUTCD) standards.
What litigation support work might a guardrail expert witness be expected to perform?
Expert witness services could include failure analyses, accident reconstruction, forensic engineering, research and authoring expert reports, providing expert opinions, and expert witness testimony at depositions and in the courtroom. In addition, a law firm may request a guardrail specialist for pre-litigation expert consulting.
To support either a plaintiff or defendant, Cahn Litigation Services has the experience required to turn a search for a guardrail expert witness around quickly, providing the right balance of expertise and testimony experience.
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Guardrail Expert Witness - Representative Bios
Please Note: All Cahn Litigation expert witness searches are customized to attorneys' precise specifications and preferences. Attorneys are encouraged to discuss search parameters with a Cahn search specialist.
The below expert witness bios represent a small fraction of those Guardrail experts known by Cahn Litigation Services. These bios are provided to give lawyers a sense of the Guardrail landscape.
Expert Witness #258149
This expert brings to the table many years of experience as an independent investigator in the field of safety. This expert holds Bachelors and Masters degrees in Mechanical Engineering and a Doctoral Degree in Biomedical Engineering. This expert's doctoral studies included a number of courses and projects concerning gait analysis, musculoskeletal modeling, trauma, and human factors. This expert's dissertation topic concerned the role that size and gender play in the probability of injury. This expert has been a scientific researcher working in a Neuroscience Research Facility. This expert's work involves the analysis of the causation of human injury with an emphasis on the forces that result in head, neck, spine, and extremity trauma.
This expert has been involved in the analysis of hundreds of gait disruption accidents. They have included falls due to slips, trips, and stumbles due to flooring defects as well a stairway and elevated platform defects. Additionally, this expert has consulted on a number of guardrail accidents including geometric and structural faults and is highly trained in both USA and International building codes.
This expert has extensive prior litigation experience.
Start Guardrail Expert SearchExpert Witness #264318
This guardrail expert holds a PhD and PE and has many years of experience in forensic engineering work involving vehicles. Early in this expert's career, this expert worked at a well-regarded roadside safety research facility, where many different roadside safety devices were designed and tested, including guardrails, bridge rails, and crash cushions.
This expert has spent over 25 years in forensic engineering, working with attorneys and serving as an expert witness in thousands of cases. Many of these cases have involved the performance of guardrails and other roadside safety devices.
Start Guardrail Expert SearchExpert Witness #268400
This guardrail expert holds PE and TE credentials and has over 15 years of experience working for a state transportation department in design and traffic safety. Part of this expert's duties included assessing hundreds of locations for possible guardrail installations, as well as inspecting guardrail and appurtenances for proper installation.
Since 2016, this expert has handled multiple cases involving guardrail and vehicle collisions, including crashes where a guardrail penetrated the vehicle cabin. As part of this expert's work with a state transportation department, this expert was involved in policy-making regarding the use of several guardrail end treatments. This expert has testified on many occasions.
Start Guardrail Expert SearchExpert Witness #282243
This guardrail design and placement expert holds a BS in Civil Engineering and a Master's Degree (MTE) and has been involved in many guardrail-related cases, including several ongoing matters in NY Court of Claims and NY Supreme Court for both defense and plaintiff-side work.
Start Guardrail Expert SearchExpert Witness #291110
This guardrail expert is a professor at a well-regarded university with over 35 years of transportation-related research experience at a university transportation center and over 10 years of additional experience with a state transportation agency.
In a current academic role, this expert conducts research in traffic and safety. This expert has authored over 300 technical reports and over 60 national publications, and has been involved in the evaluation of hundreds of accidents involving guardrails over nearly 50 years.
Start Guardrail Expert SearchExpert Witness #304392
This civil engineering/traffic expert is a licensed Professional Engineer in Civil Engineering who served as a senior engineering leader for a state department of transportation. In that role, this expert was responsible for the agency's design program and staffing, including developing design policy and guidance and delivering an annual multi-million-dollar design and construction program.
This expert served as the agency's representative on contractor claims and disputes, right-of-way condemnation cases, and tort claim litigation, including work as an expert witness. That work included assisting with interrogatories, depositions, and trial preparation.
This expert has over 35 years of experience in roadway and highway design, including over 10 years with a federal highway agency and additional service with a state department of transportation. This expert served for over 5 years as a senior engineering leader and has significant experience developing and signing roadway and highway construction plans, including traffic control design and application, permanent traffic signing, and highway right-of-way appurtenances such as trails, paths, guardrail, and fencing. This expert's expert-witness testimony experience occurred over more than a decade while serving in a senior transportation engineering role.
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