Eyewitness Descriptions

Herodotos (4 4-425 Bc), the major Hellenistic historian, wrote in his Historiai that he had not heard of the islands called the Cassiterides and that he had not even obtained an eyewitness description of a sea beyond Europe ... 

Pressac himself becomes very critical in quite a few of his passages relating to the reliability and credibility of eyewitness testimonies 452 yet it is upon these eyewitness testimonies that all the descriptions of the gas chamber killings are based. He lists the untruths, impossibilities, and exaggerations of the witnesses and explains how they presumably materialized. Finally, in an interview, he said 453... 

When preparing an accident investigation report, use the analysis results to make specific and constructive recommendations. Never make general reconunendations just to save time and effort. Use previously drafted sequence of events to describe what happened. Photographs and diagrams may save many words of description. Identify clearly if evidence is based on facts, eyewitness accounts. 

For the first time for the coasts of Khabarovsk Krai and Primorye the consequences of historical tsunamis (in particular, damage to the coasts, number of ships moved by tsunami waves from the open sea to the river mouths and on beaches, coast erosion, as well as eyewitness accounts) were taken into account. The description of tsunami hazard factors is preceded by an analysis of zones of the... 

The third step is to document the accident. A driver should carry courtesy information cards in order to collect information from eyewitnesses. The driver should ask an eyewitness to fill out his or her name, address, and telephone number so the person can be contacted at a later time. If possible, the witness should also write a description of what he or she saw. 

A driver is also supposed to fill out a preliminary accident report while at the scene once everything is secured. This report is used to gather all information about everyone involved in the accident and any eyewitnesses. A driver must record the time, place, and road and weather conditions and provide a short description of what happened, which can be discussed later in case of lawsuits and other actions. If a camera is available, a driver should take photographs of the scene to give the insurance company an idea of what took place when it reviews data at a later time. A driver must not sign anything or make any statements unless it is to the police, his or her company, or the insurance company. 

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