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With the statements taking a witness statement detective particularly an eyewitness statement is a very important part in establishing the facts of a accident or in this or incident investigation now the purposes of a witness statement are several first of all it's it serves to commit the witness to the witness's version of the facts so later on the witness doesn't perhaps have a different memory of it that might hurt your your case it refreshes the memory the witness's memory if there's a lot of time that passes between the accident and when they perhaps have to take a deposition or go to court when this statement also helps expert witnesses establish establish the facts that they need to rely on to form an opinion whether that expert witness might be an accident reconstructionist for example or some other type of expert because experts are not I witness --is they have to rely on basic facts of what they're testifying on rely on others so witness statement is very important for that witness statements also are incredibly important for improving leverage and settlement the also a witness statement can be used at trial or in the deposition to impeach the witness that the witness suddenly decides to change his or her story now to take witness statement in the witness where you get witnesses well often people at the scene of an accident or an incident will leave their name with with the injured party or with someone perhaps even they may be listed in a police or accident report you know folks that leave their their name with someone at the scene of the accident they need to be interviewed immediately because these are people that step forward and or at least at that moment saying that there can be helpful canvassing nearby businesses and homes can be can be helpful to see if anybody knows anything saw anything heard anything and then of course once a lawsuit is filed using discovery from the opposing party and that's that's a typical thing to ask in in interrogatories for perhaps a request for production give me a list of or identify all people with knowledge of the event the pre statement the pre statement interview you have to interview first find out what the person knows and what they're willing to to share so it's important to know the the witness's version before you start taking their their statement formally or informally now remember it's a statement it's not a deposition so that statement that is ultimately going to be produced is going to be brief and it's going to be to the point the process of taking that statement and getting future cooperation from the witness needs to be convenient for the witness it needs whatever you do you need to enhance that future cooperation and another thing you don't use recording devices without the permission of the witness and give it guidance of course from