{"id":6462,"date":"2022-08-15T14:10:23","date_gmt":"2022-08-15T14:10:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawkins.biz\/?post_type=leadership&#038;p=6462"},"modified":"2025-08-22T13:25:39","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T12:25:39","slug":"richard-baker","status":"publish","type":"leadership","link":"https:\/\/www.hawkins.biz\/our-experts\/richard-baker\/","title":{"rendered":"Richard Baker"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"6462\" class=\"elementor elementor-6462\" data-elementor-post-type=\"leadership\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"has_eae_slider elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-7ccc3b97 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-eae-slider=\"77203\" data-id=\"7ccc3b97\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"has_eae_slider elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-46b0ea3c\" data-eae-slider=\"60262\" data-id=\"46b0ea3c\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-66dff7ed elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"66dff7ed\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Richard joined Hawkins in 2017 as a Chartered Mechanical Engineer. He graduated from the University of Nottingham in 2009 with a First Class Masters degree in Mechanical Engineering. Richard has previously occupied the roles of Engineer, Senior Engineer and Principal Engineer. He now specialises in the forensic investigation of road traffic accidents\/collisions, vehicle and mechanical failures, and image analysis typically of video recordings from CCTV systems and \u2018dash-cams\u2019.<\/p><p>Richard has extensive experience in engineering design and analysis. As well as taking on more traditional mechanical engineering cases, such as those involving failures of mechanical joints and fasteners, Richard uses his experience in engineering data analysis and interrogation in cases involving video analysis. Richard applies scientific analysis methods to video recordings to facilitate interpretation of events in the context of space (position), time, speed, and the fundamental scientific and engineering principles that bound the problem. This work includes video clarification and enhancement, relating to single and multiple vehicle accidents, and collisions involving pedestrians and cyclists. This area of Richard\u2019s work often strongly overlaps with his expertise in collision investigation and Richard is regularly instructed to deal with both Video Analysis Expert and Collision Reconstruction Expert aspects of a case. Richard has prepared numerous CPR compliant reports and given Expert oral evidence in Court.<\/p><p>Richard is a Senior Associate in our Reigate office. He is a qualified Forensic Collision Investigator and holds a Cardiff University Law School Bond Solon Expert Witness Certificate.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Richard joined Hawkins in 2017 as a Chartered Mechanical Engineer. He graduated from the University of Nottingham in 2009 with a First Class Masters degree in Mechanical Engineering. Richard has previously occupied the roles of Engineer, Senior Engineer and Principal Engineer. He now specialises in the forensic investigation of road traffic accidents\/collisions, vehicle and mechanical failures, and image analysis typically of video recordings from CCTV systems and \u2018dash-cams\u2019. Richard has extensive experience in engineering design and analysis. As well as taking on more traditional mechanical engineering cases, such as those involving failures of mechanical joints and fasteners, Richard uses his experience in engineering data analysis and interrogation in cases involving video analysis. Richard applies scientific analysis methods to video recordings to facilitate interpretation of events in the context of space (position), time, speed, and the fundamental scientific and engineering principles that bound the problem. This work includes video clarification and enhancement, relating to single and multiple vehicle accidents, and collisions involving pedestrians and cyclists. This area of Richard\u2019s work often strongly overlaps with his expertise in collision investigation and Richard is regularly instructed to deal with both Video Analysis Expert and Collision Reconstruction Expert aspects of a case. 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