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A man drives his car up a hill and crashes into a truck double-parked on the other side of the crest. The man dies.
His family sues the trucking company, saying it caused the accident. The trucking company claims that the glare from the sun caused the man to become distracted and made him unable to see the truck in time to avoid it.
Enter Kevin Williams.
Williams was tasked with determining the location of the sun in the sky, the presence of any clouds and the exact angle of the sun relative to the vehicle driven by the deceased.
Williams is a local weatherman for 10 NBC News in Rochester, N.Y. and founder of Weather Track, a meterological consulting firm. He has been working with trial attorneys since the early 1980s, providing expert testimony in the field of forensic meteorology.
Williams also writes a weekly column for the Daily Record in Rochester.
"I was first approached by a local attorney in a very basic slip and fall case," said Williams, a graduate of Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y. "He wanted me to try to reconstruct what the weather conditions were for the day and time. There really wasn't a...