accident
Police report says a driver was at fault for accident, but that person wasn&#39;t
<p>Suppose that a police report says that a driver was at fault for a car accident but in fact the driver wasn't. Is the driver screwed if the driver takes it to court, or does the driver still have a hope of proving it wasn't that person's fault?</p>

<p>Most states have a <em>per se</em> bar on the admission of a traffic offense resolution in a case seeking personal injuries from a traffic accident, in order to discourage overlitigation of traffic offenses due to collateral consequences which they could otherwise have.</p>
<p>The police report is also usually hearsay, and so only the live testimony of the officers would be admitted.</p>
<p>Normally, fault in a traffic accident is not something upon which expert testimony is permitted as the decision is vested in the finder of fact (usually a jury in the U.S., but sometimes a judge in a bench trial).</p>
