Local-First Legal Intake & Case Audit

Accident Evidence Chronology & Consultation Dossier Kit

Organize incident timelines, medical encounters, and expense receipts before meeting personal injury counsel. Every record is audited and sanitized locally in your browser with zero server uploads.

Chronological Sequence & Incident Gaps

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How to Prepare for a Car Accident Attorney Consultation

Attorneys in high-volume regions evaluate cases based on three pillars: clear fault, substantiated physical injury, and collectible insurance coverage.

The First 72 Hours: What Matters

Insurance adjusters often contact unrepresented drivers within hours of a crash to obtain recorded statements before the full extent of symptoms is known.

  • Immediate care: Seek a documented medical evaluation promptly to establish proximate causation between impact and injury.
  • Contemporaneous notes: Record physical soreness, mobility limitations, and vehicle position while memory is fresh.
  • Evidence preservation: Photograph road conditions, signal timings, skid marks, and vehicle damage prior to salvage.

Evaluating Prospective Counsel

Choosing an attorney near you should hinge on track record, trial willingness, and client transparency rather than billboard slogans.

  • Contingency contracts: Request written terms detailing whether fee deductions apply before or after medical liens.
  • Direct communication: Ask whether your point of contact will be a licensed partner, associate, or case manager.
  • Local court familiarity: Inquire about their trial experience in the specific county where the incident occurred.
What should I bring to my initial car accident consultation?

Bring the official police collision report number or copy, photographs of vehicle damage and visible injuries, insurance identification cards for all drivers, emergency room discharge papers, and a list of all medical facilities you have visited since the crash.

Why is a contemporaneous timeline critical in an insurance claim?

Insurance defense adjusters search for gaps in medical treatment to argue that injuries were pre-existing or unrelated to the collision. A documented day-by-day record of symptoms, appointments, and missed work days disproves allegations of exaggerated harm.

Does compiling this dossier expose my sensitive personal information?

No. This tool operates entirely inside your web browser. No dates, descriptions, or file references are transmitted to an external server or saved in a remote database. The built-in PII sanitizer additionally strips Social Security, phone, and policy details from printed files.

Local Evidence Timeline & Consultation Readiness Guide

How does this client-side organizer construct the multi-lane accident chronology and detect consultation gaps?

This application operates entirely in your local browser runtime to sort accident records, project them across a five-track SVG timeline, and evaluate basic documentation coverage. Each entry is assigned an x-coordinate by scaling its timestamp against the earliest and latest recorded events, while cubic Bezier curves connect adjacent items chronologically. The consultation audit checks for three heuristic indicators: an attached report reference matching police keywords, at least one medical encounter, and at least one insurance contact.

Readiness checks rely on simple client-side keyword regexes and entry presence rather than legal sufficiency or statutory filing deadlines. Redaction only recognizes standard US formats for SSNs, phone numbers, typical 17-character VINs, and basic policy strings; non-standard identifiers, freehand medical terms, and address lines are not masked. Exported documents and checklists are personal preparatory aids, not formal legal advice, case value estimates, or verified chain-of-custody evidence.

Try a worked example

When loaded with the default sample, the summary displays 6 Chronology Items, 6 Proof Artifacts, and $481 Documented with a green confirmation stating that core evidence pillars are present. If you delete the collision card or change category filters, the lane counts recalculate immediately. Entering a new event with category 'Out-of-Pocket Cost', a title, and cost '75.00' appends a node to the bottom track (y = 185) and updates total documented expenses to $556.

Timeline Coordinate Mapping

The timeline normalizes event timestamps between the earliest (minT) and latest (maxT) recorded dates across a 680-pixel usable horizontal span. Vertical positions follow fixed lane offsets: Incident at 45 px, Property at 80 px, Medical at 115 px, Insurer at 150 px, and Expense at 185 px. Cubic Bezier curves link adjacent chronological events across tracks to visualize treatment pacing and claim interactions.

Heuristic Readiness Audit

The readiness auditor evaluates state arrays against three criteria: whether state.events includes category 'medical', category 'insurer', and whether any document field matches the regular expression /police|incident|report/i. Total expenses are computed as a simple numerical sum of the cost fields. Missing criteria trigger warning banners recommending documentation of the respective pillar.

Dossier numeric fields, timestamp scaling and privacy limits

Read the explanation

This saved dossier combines local records, not verified incident or medical evidence. The six representative entries contain numeric costs two hundred eighty five point five zero, one hundred fifty and forty five, totaling four hundred eighty point five zero. Another entry mentions a seven thousand eight hundred forty point ten estimate in prose but its numeric cost is zero, so the summary does not include that amount. At half a pixel per dollar the three included segments are one hundred forty two point seven five, seventy five and twenty two point five, totaling two hundred forty point two five pixels. Add a synthetic one hundred dollar entry and the raw total becomes five hundred eighty point five zero. The dashboard rounds those totals to four hundred eighty one and five hundred eighty one dollars. Text mentioning money is not automatically parsed into the cost ledger. The native SVG maps timestamps across eight hundred units, leaving sixty units at each end. The available span is six hundred eighty. The saved first event is September twelfth at seventeen fifteen and the last September eighteenth at eleven. Their difference is eight thousand two hundred sixty five minutes. They map to sixty and seven hundred forty. Add a synthetic event September nineteenth at seventeen fifteen: the span becomes ten thousand eighty minutes. The old last point now maps to sixty plus eight thousand two hundred sixty five divided by ten thousand eighty times six hundred eighty, about six hundred seventeen point five six. It moves left even though its timestamp is unchanged, because the denominator changed. Lines depict order, not causation or an inferred medical relationship. The checklist has ten manual items and eight start checked. Unchecking all gives zero checked, but the separate core-pillars banner reads different heuristics: a document label containing police, incident or report, plus any medical and insurer category. It can remain positive while the checklist is empty; neither is document authentication. At forty pixels per checked item, eight is three hundred twenty pixels and zero has no bar. Privacy masking is also limited: the code transforms description and document text, with phone numbers only partially masked. Event titles are not masked, including in JSON export. This draft teaches those exact software limits without endorsing legal or medical claims, claiming complete anonymization, or changing the source.

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