Kristi Hagen is the Founder and CEO of KristiJane and a Founder/Owner of KMW Labs and RoadProof.com. With more than two decades of experience in search, digital strategy, data-driven marketing, and technology innovation, Kristi has built her career around helping businesses turn complex information into measurable real-world results. As CEO and Co-Founder of RoadProof, she helps lead a platform designed to make historical traffic video data faster and easier to access for law enforcement, insurers, attorneys, investigators, and transportation-related organizations.
Many traffic accidents on our interstate highways are captured at the instant of impact, long before anyone realizes the footage will matter.
A nearby business camera may capture the moments leading up to a crash. A dash camera may show how a driver entered an intersection. A traffic camera may reveal road conditions, vehicle movement, and the exact timing of an event. In many cases, that car accident footage can help answer the question everyone is trying to understand after a roadway incident: What actually happened?
The challenge isn't that video doesn't exist. It's that it is far too often nearly impossible to track down and is at risk of being deleted long before the right person can request it.
That's where RoadProof comes in.
RoadProof.com archives and indexes traffic camera footage in 27 states and provides its platform free of charge to state-level law enforcement. With more than 5.3 million hours of incident-related footage indexed to date, it is a powerful, easy-to-use tool that more than 65 law enforcement agencies currently leverage.
Many current traffic video evidence workflows still rely on manual outreach, disconnected systems, inconsistent documentation, and a lot of wasted time spent on follow-up. Someone may need to determine which nearby businesses have cameras. Someone else may need to contact those businesses before the footage is erased. Another person may need to document where the video came from, who provided it, and how it was shared.
That process can work, but it is not fast, consistent, or easy to manage.
The RoadProof traffic video evidence platform brings much-needed structure to that process. Instead of treating video as an afterthought, RoadProof helps make it part of the early investigation and evidence-gathering workflow, allowing officers to solve cases and leverage evidence in near real time. Its goal is simple: help people find and preserve relevant roadway footage before it disappears.
One of the biggest shifts in this space is the move from passive video storage to more active evidence intelligence. It's no longer enough to know that cameras are out there. Organizations need a better way to understand where relevant footage may exist, how quickly it needs to be requested, and how it can be preserved for review.
That matters because traffic incidents typically involve more than one stakeholder. Law enforcement needs footage for investigations. Attorneys may need it to understand liability. Insurance carriers need it to evaluate car accident claims. Transportation departments need it to review safety concerns.
When everyone is working separately, the process is slow and inconsistent. A platform like RoadProof creates a streamlined, easy-to-use way to manage those requests and preserve the information that matters later.
