Blog: Let's take low speed impact cases out of the ‘too hard to do' drawer

In court, the credibility of your witness is everything. But in low speed impact claims, the reliability of expert witness evidence is akin to the Wild West. The true facts of a collision are too rarely investigated and expert testimony is frequently provided by insurance assessors who draw on a working lifetime of valuing vehicles and repairs, not on research or an understanding of the physics involved.

In 2005, Mr Justice Appleton, a High Court judge in Preston, Lancashire declared that it was "outrageous" how experts with no academic research base were permitted to give expert evidence in matters