James Overton

ACTAR Number 1847

I am a consulting expert with over 20 years of experience in traffic crash investigation, reconstruction and analysis, and fleet safety compliance. I specialize in commercial vehicle crashes and Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations. I have considerable experience downloading and analyzing leading edge digital forensics data from tractor-trailer and automobile electronic data recorders (ECM, EDR, SDM, ACM, CDR, black boxes, etc.), video event data recorders (DriveCam, SmartDrive, etc.), heavy truck telematics systems (Qualcomm, PeopleNet, etc.), Garmin and other personal GPS based devices, ABS systems (Bendix, Wabco, etc.), and numerous other devices. I have extensive experience inspecting and documenting the condition of braking systems on tractor-trailers and heavy trucks in order to determine their existing braking capability and applying that to the specifics of a particular collision.