Car Accidents, Photos and Delaware Courts
In Delaware car accident cases, photos that show minor damage to the injured party’s car cannot be used to persuade a Delaware jury that the injuries must also have been minimal. The reason for this rule is that it’s well known by experts that there is not necessarily a correlation between the damage to a car and the extent of the injuries sustained by an occupant of that car.
If you think about it for a moment, the rules make perfect sense. Anyone who buys a carton of eggs will tell you that even if the carton looks perfect, they never buy the eggs unless they open it up to see whether any of the eggs are broken.
The fact is that you can have a crash where the car is badly smashed up and the people inside get out and walk away without any injuries. In the same way that photos of that car should not be used to prove serious injury, photos from a fender bender should not be used to prove little or no injuries.
