Featured Project: Recreation of Fatal Automobile Accident

Kitchen Sink Studios, Inc.'s featured project of the week is a photo-realistic re-enactment of a tragic, fatal automobile crash the studio created for Pat McGroder, a plaintiff's personal injury attorney with Gallagher and Kennedy in Phoenix.

Because of the terms of the settlement, we're withholding some of the specifics, but the crash took place when the victim was making a left-hand turn on a major street. The victim, looking at oncoming traffic, believed he had plenty of time to make the turn, assuming that the oncoming cars he saw were going approximately the speed limit.

However, the two oncoming cars were actually drag racing, and were traveling more than 30 miles per hour above the speed limit. They closed the distance much faster than the victim anticipated, leading to the horrific and fatal crash that took place.

You can view the entire re-enactment on YouTube. Using police reports, expert witness accounts and simple math formulas (V=D/T), we were able to re-create and depict the accident from multiple vantage points, as well as various speeds— creating a "what if" scenario for the viewer. The case settled in favor of our client.

At Kitchen Sink Studios, we take great pride in being able to bring anything visual to life, and legal re-enactments have become a significant part of our client work because they not only allow the legal system to work properly, they allow the families of victims to understand what happened in tragic circumstances.

Out of hibernation

“Spout Off” has been in hibernation for a few months now due to a variety of circumstances — some good, some bad. But mostly, we’ve had our collective noses to the grindstone and have been enjoying a terrific summer of producing great creative.

And now with summer ending, we’re taking a deep breath and dusting off the old blog to tell you about the news and happenings with your favorite downtown Phoenix design studio.

First of all, big shout out to our long-time client, Pat McGroder of Gallegher and Kennedy, a Phoenix-based law firm. We’re helping him serve his clients by providing top-notch legal animation and video that bring his cases to life. Another shout out to the Plaintiff’s Personal Injury Group at Fennemore Craig, headed up by Marc Lamber and James Goodnow, for bringing us in on several of their cases as well.

Our legal niche is becoming very exciting for us. We’re branching out with new ideas and groundbreaking ways of helping attorneys present critical information. And we’ve enjoyed the opportunity to get to know some of their clients and help them receive the results they deserve in their injury cases.

But that’s not all we’ve been up to. We’ve started to see things move a bit in the business community and some signs of overall economic improvement, and we’ve made some great connections on exciting new projects. Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, the Arizona Heart Foundation, Downtown Live! and several other significant organizations have brought us on to help tell their story in compelling, innovative ways. We’ll be telling you more about some of our killer projects in the coming weeks.

Finally, we’ll be revving up the First Friday activities at our studio starting on September 3^rd. If you’re down and checking out the scene on Roosevelt, head a block south on Third Street and come say hi. We’ll have artists and performers on hand, and our team would love to catch up with everyone.

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