Professional Biography
Jamie Overton is a Senior Accident Reconstructionist 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.
Jamie 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. He is a Berla Certified Vehicle System Forensic Examiner and a Certified Vehicle System Forensic Technician.
Jamie 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 & Certifications
- Accreditation Commission for Traffic Accident Reconstruction (ACTAR)
- Certified Vehicle System Forensic Technician (CVST)
- Certified Vehicle System Forensic Examiner (CVSE)
- Certified Crash Data Retrieval (CDR) Technician
- Certified Crash Data Retrieval (CDR) Data Analyst
- FARO Focus 3D Scanner Certified
- FAA Certified Drone Pilot
Professional Experience
- Senior Managing Accident Reconstructionist | YA Group | 2026 - Current
- Senior Accident Reconstructionist | YA Engineering Services | 2024 - 2026
- Accident Reconstructionist | Bloomberg Consulting | 2019 - 2024
- Accident Reconstructionist | Traffic Safety Consultants/Forcon International | 2005 - 2019
- Virginia State Trooper | Virginia State Police | 1999 - 2005
Practices & Skillsets
- Heavy Trucking
Education
- Associate, General Studies, Southside Virginia Community College, Keysville, Virginia
- Virginia State Police Academy, Richmond, Virginia