Below are links to the accident reconstruction animations created for trial attorney Ronald L. M. Goldman, of Baum, Hedlund, Aristei & Goldman.

Oblique & Plan Views | Brumfield, Truck Driver and Witness Perspectives

During the trial of Brumfield v. Tyson Foods, Inc., Mr. Goldman presented these animations to the jury as visual evidence in federal court in Cleveland Ohio. On December 12, 2006 the verdict was handed down by the jury against Tyson Foods in the amount $7,028,687 for the death of 22 year-old Daniel J. Brumfield, who was killed when a Tyson Foods truck struck his vehicle head on near Crestline, Ohio on May 29, 2004.

This truck accident verdict is one of the largest verdicts for the death of an unmarried person in Ohio state's history. Though five animations showing all angles of the crash were used at trial, only two are shown here. They depict the actions of all parties before, during and after the impact of the crash.

The 2003 Tyson Food tractor-trailer was partially loaded at 50,000lb., traveling eastbound at over 60 mph, which violates the 55 mph speed limit. The truck driver began to move over a no passing double yellow line into the opposite lane of the highway to pass the vehicles in front of him. Meanwhile Daniel Brumfield, a United States Marine, was driving his Chevy S-10 pick up (which weighs about 3,000 lbs.) westbound on U.S. Route 30 near Oldfield Road, at that same time the Tyson Foods truck was driving eastbound in the westbound lane.

As the animations show, the Tyson driver did not apply his brakes until after he struck Daniel's pick-up head on at over 60 mph. The impact of the Tyson truck pushed Daniel and his pick-up backwards of 562 feet, practically the length of two football fields, before they came to a stop, with Daniel's truck still pinned and crushed to the front of the Tyson tractor-trailer.