Steely v. Hancock’s Empirical Analysis

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7 state decisions

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1. ““It has been said that violent impacts of moving bodies sometimes have freakish effects. C. L. & L. Motor Express Co. v. Achenbach, 1935, 259 Ky. 228 , 82 S.W.2d 335 ; Ashland Oil & Refining Co. v. Brashear, Ky.1952, 251 S.W.2d 288, 290 . It is virtually impossible to reconstruct, even roughly, the dynamics of an automobile accident. Cf. Schoen v. Plaza Express Co., Mo.Sup.1947, 206 S.W.2d 536 , 539. This court has yet to see the case where it can be done post factum from the position of the vehicles. There are simply too many unknown and unknowable factors. To say that the positions of the truck and car off to one side of the road prove the accident occurred on that side of the center line of the highway requires conj ecture. That circumstance alone is not- of enough substance and reliability to authorize a submission to the jury.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Wells v. Conley Ex Rel. Conley