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Match the record holder to the event

The event portion of the file should preserve available photographs, video, incident accounts, scene information, damaged property information, and witness details. Depending on the event, official starting points may differ. For a roadway crash, the Texas Department of Transportation provides statewide crash-report and crash-data starting points; that resource does not establish that TxDOT investigated or controlled a particular scene.

• Identify the date, approximate time, location description, vehicles, equipment, or other objects involved.
• Preserve names and contact information for people who observed the event or its immediate aftermath.
• Keep original photographs, videos, messages, and notices with their dates and source information.

Do not assume the event category

Other possible record categories require event-specific identification rather than assumptions. Texas sources identify subjects including boating accident duties and reports, public-entity liability, products liability, health-care liability, and injured-worker claims and employer records. Those source categories do not establish that any particular theory, person, product, public entity, provider, or workplace applies.

Use one dated timeline

Organize the file in a sequence that allows the event, symptoms, care, and function to be compared. Begin with pre-event baseline information, then place the event evidence, immediate symptoms, emergency care, later treatment, testing, and current effects in date order.

• 1. Baseline: prior abilities, routines, school or work performance, health records, and witness descriptions.
• 2. Event: photographs, video, reports, messages, property information, and witness accounts.
• 3. Early period: symptoms, emergency evaluation, discharge instructions, referrals, and follow-up appointments.
• 4. Ongoing period: imaging, neurologic or cognitive testing, treatment response, behavior, sleep, and daily function.
• 5. Current period: supervision, equipment, transportation, work or school changes, household assistance, and continuing care records.

Document change without overstating it

Keep a symptom and function log that separates what the person reports from what another person observes. Note changes in memory, concentration, language, mood, behavior, balance, coordination, sleep, stamina, and independence when they occur. Preserve bills, appointment records, care schedules, equipment information, and communications without adding unsupported medical conclusions.

Make the file usable

Create a secure evidence folder and an index. Preserve original files, make copies for working use, and record who supplied each item and when. Ask potential record holders for materials relevant to the event and the periods before and after it, while following applicable authorization and privacy procedures.

• Write a short event account while memories are fresh, identifying uncertainty instead of filling gaps.
• List symptoms and functional changes by date, including who observed each change.
• Collect medical, work, school, household, care, and equipment records in separate labeled groups.
• Keep a list of open questions, missing records, witnesses, and conflicting accounts.
• Avoid deleting messages, editing original media, or relying only on a summary when the underlying record is available.

Confirm the setting and source

For Texas matters, identify the event category and possible record holders before drawing conclusions. Official sources separately address crash records, boating accident duties and reports, public-entity liability, products liability, health-care liability, and injured-worker claims and employer records. Those sources should be used only to locate the relevant subject matter, not to assume that a particular event fits it.