After leaving an investigation site and while on his way to another inspection, the inspector was injured in a motor vehicle accident. The map showed that the accident occurred well off the most direct route between the two inspection sites, undermining the inspector's claim that he was traveling from one work assignment to the next. Although this case involved a disability retirement claim rather than a workers' compensation claim, the court's analysis of work status, travel, and credibility offers useful lessons for claims professionals evaluating course-and-scope issues. TakeawayWhen a claimant asserts that an injury occurred while traveling between work locations, contemporaneous evidence may be more persuasive than testimony offered years later. Time records, schedules, emails, GPS data, mileage logs, maps, and route information can all help determine whether the employee was actually engaged in work duties or had deviated for personal reasons.cident supported direct travel between alleged job sites.