Jamie Overton

ACTAR, CVST, CVSE

Senior Accident Reconstructionist

Biography

Jamie Overton is a Senior Accident Reconstructionist for the Southeast region at YA Engineering Services. He joined the company in 2024 through the acquisition of Bloomberg Consulting. With over 23 years of experience, Jamie specializes in traffic crash investigation, reconstruction, and analysis, as well as fleet safety compliance. His expertise focuses on commercial vehicle crashes and Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations.

Mr. Overton has considerable experience downloading and analyzing leading-edge digital forensics data from tractor-trailer and automobile electronic data recorders (ECM, EDR, SDM, ACM, CDR, black boxes, etc.), video event data recorders (DriveCam, SmartDrive, etc.), heavy truck telematics systems (Qualcomm, PeopleNet, etc.), Garmin and other personal GPS based devices, ABS systems (Bendix, Wabco, etc.), vehicle infotainment systems and telematics devices among numerous other devices. Mr. Overton is a Berla Certified Vehicle System Forensic Examiner and a Certified Vehicle System Forensic Technician. Mr. Overton has extensive experience inspecting and documenting the condition of braking systems on tractor-trailers and heavy trucks to determine their existing braking capability and apply that to the specifics of a particular collision.

Credentials

  • ACTAR | Accreditation Commission for Traffic Accident Reconstruction
  • CVST | Certified Vehicle System Forensic Technician
  • CVSE | Certified Vehicle System Forensic Examiner
  • Certified Crash Data Retrieval (CDR) Technician
  • Certified Crash Data Retrieval (CDR) Data Analyst
  • FARO Focus 3D Scanner Certified
  • FAA Certified Drone Pilot

Professional Experience

  • 2024 - Current | Senior Accident Reconstructionist | YA Engineering Services
  • 2019 - 2024 | Accident Reconstructionist | Bloomberg Consulting
  • 2005 - 2019 | Accident Reconstructionist | Traffic Safety Consultants/Forcon International
  • 1999 - 2005 | Virginia State Trooper | Virginia State Police

Area of Practice

  • Accident Reconstruction
  • Heavy Trucking
  • Motorcycle Accident Reconstruction

Education

  • Southside Virginia Community College - Associate - General Studies - Keysville - Virginia
  • Virginia State Police Academy - Richmond - Virginia