Brain Injury Caused by Truck Crash
Animation Video

 

Many of the commercial transportation cases that Baum, Hedlund, Aristei & Goldman handles are catastrophic personal injury cases. This animation was created by one of our brain injury experts for use at trial. It shows the organic injury that occurred to our client’s brain as a result of a collision with a tractor-trailer. In his case, a Freightliner tractor-trailer, hauling tomatoes, drifted into our client’s lane on the highway and ultimately crashed into the driver’s side corner of our client’s pick-up truck, catapulting his vehicle into a drainage ditch on the side of the highway.

This brain injury animation shows the brain injury suffered by our client, a classic "coup contrecoup" injury. In other words, it shows the sharp acceleration and deceleration forces exerted on his head that caused his brain to bounce backwards and forwards in his skull, which resulted in the stretching, tearing and rupturing of axons (brain and nerve cells). Although the forces of the collision were such that this was a mild traumatic brain injury, it nevertheless severely impaired our client’s cognitive function, memory, and motor skills - rendering him unable to ever work in his field of construction again.

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