Overview
Experts specializing in advanced statistical techniques for evaluating automotive and consumer product safety. Our expertise helps legal teams and companies assess and quantify product related risks, trends, injuries, and damages. By analyzing large datasets, we provide answers to key questions with data-driven precision.
Cirque Analytics has extensive experience and knowledge of U.S. and State Government data related to vehicles and consumer products. Many of these data sources are maintained in-house for efficiency – these include:
- NHTSA’s NCSA crash data systems: Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS), Crash Report Sampling System (CRSS), Crash Investigation Sampling System (CISS), National Automotive Sampling System Non-Traffic Surveillance (NASS GES and NASS CDS), and Special Crash Investigations (SCI).
- NHTSA’s Ratings, Recalls, Investigations, and Complaints.
- State Data Files of Police Crash Reports.
- Polk Registration Data.
- United States Consumer Product Safety Commission data: National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Data (NEISS), and National Injury Information Clearinghouse Data.
Cirque Analytics’ Team of statisticians, economists, and engineers has extensive expertise analyzing automotive safety and field performance and consumer product risks. Whether the goal is to quantify potential occupant and pedestrian risk due to certain vehicle features and components, or determining whether a fleetwide product recall is needed, the team has the expertise and experience to answer the challenging questions.
Cirque Analytics by the Numbers
Testimonies in deposition or trial.
With deposition and trial testimony experience.
Petabytes of data used for litigation and insights.
Collective years experience consulting.
Areas of Expertise & Focus
Automotive Safety
Cirque leverages NHTSA (National Highway Traffic Safety Administration) and State Police Reported Accident databases to conduct detailed analyses of vehicle safety, evaluation of new technologies, driver behavior, and accident trends.
This data can be used to analzye details about crash severity, the effectiveness of safety features like airbags and seatbelts, and the field performace of various vehicle designs.
Our team of statisticians, economist, and engineers use statistical methods to identify patterns and trends, which help them assess the performance of different vehicle designs under various conditions. By comparing accident data across vehicle types, OEM manufacturers and government regulators can make informed decisions about design improvements, and safety standards that aim to reduce fatalities and injuries on the road.
Automotive Product Reliability
Cirque Analytics has helped numerous OEM automobile manufacturers evaluate component safety and failure rates. These reports have been used to determine whether fleet-wide product recalls are necessary, or whether to issue recalls for some smaller subset of affected vehicles, such as vehicles manufactured in a specific factory rather than all vehicles of a particular model.
Consumer Products Research
Cirque leverages United States CPSC (Consumer Product Safety Commission) data including National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Data (NEISS) and National Injury Information Clearinghouse Data to conduct detailed analysis of consumer products.
Our team of statisticians, economist, and engineers use statistical methods to identify patterns and trends, which help them assess risks associated with consumer products. We assess risk, prevalence of injuries, product failure rates, and product recalls.
Meet Our Automotive, Transportation, and Consumer Products Research Experts
Angela McGrath, M.A., M.B.A.
Angela McGrath is a statistician that serves as both a testifying expert witness and a consulting expert. She has…