Read-only investigation completed for post 13590, car-accident-knee-injuries-symptoms-causes-and-treatment, live URL: https://aguiarinjurylawyers.com/car-accident-knee-injuries-symptoms-causes-and-treatment/.
The investigation used local audit-output, current live public HTML via curl, and Firecrawl as a render/fetch confirmation. No WordPress writes and no local file writes were performed from this lane.
The checkmark issue came from overlapping sidebar trust patterns. The older inline page CSS used .sa-sidebar-trust li::before { content: '✓' !important; }, while the actual list items also included explicit <span class="ck">✓</span> checkmarks. The scoped sidebar pattern used .sa-sidebar-optb-poppins .sa-sidebar-trust li .ck { position:absolute; left:4px; top:8px; }, which can crowd or sit under wrapped text. The current live page now includes a later override that changes .sa-sidebar-trust li to a two-column grid, suppresses li::before, and makes .sa-sidebar-trust li .ck position:static with a fixed 24px column.
The duplicate bottom CTA/proof issue was real in the earlier knee readback. The earlier page had both <section class="sa-fcta-blk light"> and <section class="sa-bottom-get-more-fw">, each using the Get More. Get It Faster. Get It With Sam Aguiar. message. A newer local bundle, audit-output/knee-page-cta-sidebar-fix-2026-06-15/knee-page-cta-sidebar-fix.json, reports removed_white_final_cta: true, white_final_cta: 0, dark_bottom_proof: 1, sidebar_ck: 9, and no readback flags. Live public HTML also no longer showed .sa-fcta-blk light in the targeted fetch after the 08:25:06 modification.
A broad local corpus search found the final CTA/proof classes are not isolated: sa-fcta-blk appears in 164 local audit files, sa-bottom-get-more-fw appears in 941 local audit files, and every sa-fcta-blk hit also had sa-bottom-get-more-fw in the same local file set. This is not a live sitewide conclusion by itself, because audit-output includes backups, readbacks, and drafts, but it is strong evidence that the pattern should be audited before any global removal.
A safe sitewide pattern would be: keep one terminal proof module per page, preferably the dark .sa-bottom-get-more-fw block when present, and remove or suppress the white .sa-fcta-blk.light only when it is immediately adjacent to an equivalent dark Get More proof block on the same page. Do not remove all .sa-fcta-blk instances globally without checking adjacency and heading text.
For sidebar trust lists, standardize on one checkmark source. Prefer explicit .ck spans in a grid or flex layout and suppress pseudo-content with .sa-sidebar-trust li::before { content:none; display:none; }. Avoid absolute-positioned .ck inside wrapping list text.
The requested investigation is complete. The main-agent lane appears to have already applied the knee page fix while this read-only investigation was running, so this handoff focuses on exact root selectors, live/readback state, and the safe pattern for future sitewide cleanup.
Useful inspected artifacts: audit-output/knee-page-visual-fix-2026-06-15/knee-page-visual-fix.json, audit-output/knee-page-cta-sidebar-fix-2026-06-15/knee-page-cta-sidebar-fix.json, audit-output/sitewide-sa-card-width-audit-2026-06-15/audit.json, and audit-output/sitewide-sa-card-width-fix-2026-06-15/sitewide-sa-card-width-fix.json.
Exact selectors/classes to preserve in future checks: .sa-sidebar-trust li::before, .sa-sidebar-trust li .ck, .sa-sidebar-optb-poppins .sa-sidebar-trust li .ck, .sa-sidebar.sa-sidebar-optb-poppins .sa-sidebar-trust li::before, .sa-fcta-blk.light, .sa-depth-btn, .sa-bottom-get-more-fw, .sa-bottom-get-more-fw__list li, and .sa-bottom-get-more-fw__list li::before.
No rollback was needed from this lane because it was read-only.