Posted On: November 1, 2011
Accident Vehicle Photos are Admissible
In Flores, plaintiff sought to exclude a photograph of plaintiff's car that showed little or no damage to the vehicle. The Indiana Court of Appeals agreed with the trial court's finding that the damage, or lack thereof, to plaintiff's "vehicle had some tendency to prove or disprove facts relating to his personal injury claims," recognizing "the common sense relationship between property damage and personal injury." (There was no expert testimony presented to suggest that no such tendency existed in this case.) Flores v. Gutierrez, 951 N.E.2d 632 (Ind. Ct. App. 2011).
