Accident Intake Dossier & Evidence Timeline Builder

Organize incident chronology, critical evidence checklists, medical treatment records, and strategic consultation questions before speaking with an injury attorney.

Intake & Evidence Dossier

Incident Date: Sep 12, 2026 • Jurisdiction: Austin, TX
Dossier Completeness 78%
Timeline Events 5 logged
Evidence Items Secured 5 / 8
Critical Warnings 1 notice
Critical Evidence Retention Warning (Spoliation): Nearby municipal traffic cameras, business CCTV, and rideshare/truck electronic telematics (ECM logs) are frequently overwritten within 7 to 30 days. Ask counsel during initial contact to dispatch formal evidence preservation letters immediately.

Incident & Care Chronology 5 events

Essential Evidence Audit Checklist 5 verified

Attorney Consultation Questions (Take to Meeting)

Dossier ready. Data saved locally in browser memory.

Why Prepare an Intake Dossier Before Hiring Counsel?

Personal injury consultations often move quickly. Experienced litigators prioritize cases with organized, objective evidence: verifiable dates of treatment, clear police incident numbers, witness contact specifics, and preserved photographic proof.

By compiling a synchronized timeline and identifying gaps before your initial meeting, you save valuable investigative hours, avoid unintended contradictory statements, and evaluate whether a firm possesses the specific resources your case requires.

Crucial Steps for Common Case Types

Pedestrian Crosswalk & Hit Incidents

Ensure signal phase timing (walk vs. don't walk) is documented, identify neighboring storefronts with security cameras facing the intersection, and log all emergency footwear/clothing in its unwashed condition for forensic vehicle paint-transfer checks.

Rideshare / Lyft / Uber Accidents

Export in-app ride receipts showing the trip status (Period 1: app on waiting for ride, Period 2: matched/en route, Period 3: passenger onboard). Different commercial liability policy tiers apply depending on the active phase of the ride.

Commercial Truck & Fleet Collisions

Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) rules govern driver hours-of-service (ELD logs), vehicle maintenance records, and freight weight slips. Critical telematics can be overwritten unless a formal legal Spoliation Letter is issued rapidly.

The completeness score is an entered-state calculation

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The completeness index gives up to forty points to checked evidence, thirty to event count, fifteen to a police report string, and fifteen to a jurisdiction string. Consider a hypothetical dossier with three of five evidence boxes checked and three timeline events. Evidence contributes twenty four points, because three divided by five times forty is twenty four. Events contribute eighteen, because three divided by five times thirty is eighteen. With both qualifying strings, the total is seventy two. Each point occupies four pixels, so the combined bar has two hundred eighty eight pixels. This is a software score, not independent proof of legal readiness or truth. The event contribution reaches its thirty point cap at five events. Three events give eighteen points, five give thirty, and ten still give thirty. At eight pixels per point, the bars are one hundred forty four, two hundred forty, and two hundred forty pixels. Extra events remain in the sorted timeline and export even after the score saturates. Dates are sorted as JavaScript dates, while user entered summaries and notes remain source text. A large event count is not verification of any event. The police report contribution requires trimmed text longer than three characters. A three character string gives zero points; four characters give fifteen. Jurisdiction instead requires more than two characters. Two gives zero, three gives fifteen. These branch decisions only inspect string length. They do not query a police report, validate jurisdiction, or confirm that evidence exists. The JSON export carries entered incident details, checklist statuses, sorted events and selected consultation questions. A checked row is labeled secured or available in the export because the checkbox says so, not because the page independently verified it.

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