Joe provides investigations, reports and testimony in matters involving highway design, construction, maintenance, and traffic safety. More than thirty-one years of professional experience with the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (Penn DOT) has provided Joe with a broad range of knowledge and experience. He began his career designing highway projects across Central and Western Pennsylvania, and then moved onto other positions encompassing all phases of highway design, maintenance, and construction. Two noteworthy accomplishments from his career with Penn Dot include the establishment of the Construction Management Training Workshop and the Northeast Center for Excellence in Paving Technology.
After retiring from Penn Dot, Joe continued his involvement in transportation engineering. He was vice-president at two different engineering consulting firms; his scope of work included highway and bridge design, construction management, construction inspection, traffic engineering, surveying and photogrammetry, coatings, and land development.
Joe is a Professional Engineer in Pennsylvania, and he’s a member of the American Society of Highway Engineers. He has been with Robson Forensic since 2005.
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- Highway Construction – Expert Investigates Collision with Construction Vehicle
A driver was injured when her car collided with a construction vehicle on a state highway. The construction vehicle exited a work zone from a median crossover between the northbound and southbound travel lanes and entered directly into the passing lane in the southbound direction. The injured driver crashed into the back of the construction vehicle. Robson Forensic experts were retained to determine the cause(s) of the incident.
This case settled favorably for our client before trial.
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- Construction Detour - Expert Investigates Fatal Work Zone Collision
This bicycle/motor vehicle construction work zone collision resulted in the fatality of the bicycle driver. Liability was established against both the construction contractor and the design engineering firm.
We determined that the collision occurred when the bicycle driver, while riding on a long-established pedestrian/bike path adjacent to a 4-lane thoroughfare, and upon entering the construction work zone, traveled into the oncoming motor vehicle travel lane and was struck by an automobile.
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- Construction Signage - Expert Investigates Single-Vehicle Crash in Work Zone
This single-vehicle construction work zone collision resulted in serious injury to a passenger. Liability was established against both the construction contractor and the construction inspection firm.
We determined that: the collision occurred due to the car traveling at high speed and the road surface changing from paved to dirt/gravel as a result of construction activity; the crash occurred within a long-term construction work site; the only construction sign encountered by the driver in his approach to the work site was a Road Work Ahead sign; the street where the work was underway was used as a “cut through” by non-local traffic; the persistent high-speed non-local traffic through the construction site was dangerous to both the construction workers and the traffic; the contractor and the construction inspection firm were aware of, or should have been aware of, the speeding through-traffic prior to the collision, but made no change to the traffic control plan. Based on the facts and in accordance with standards for work zone traffic control, our expert opined that the contractor and the construction inspection firm: should have taken effective steps to detour the non-local traffic; and that the failure of the contractor and the construction inspection firm to employ reasonable and established measures to effectively close the street under construction to through traffic was improper and a substantial cause of the collision and resulting injury. The case settled during mediation.
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- In 2007 Motor Vehicle Collisions Resulted in Excess of 40,000 Fatalities
In 2007 motor vehicle collisions resulted in excess of 40,000 fatalities
and almost 2,500,000 injuries, according to the National Highway
Traffic Safety Administration’s website. It is often important to
determine both how a crash occurred and the underlying causes
of both the crash and resultant injury.
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