IMMEDIATELY after ACCIDENT: STAY calm. Because getting upset will only makes things WORSE PULL over to the shoulder and GET to SAFETY TURN on your car’s hazard lights and if necessary USE flares or CONES MAKE sure everyone is OK and call an ambulance if necessary or you’re in DOUBT CALL the police if there are injuries or there is significant property DAMAGE CALL your insurance Company to report the accident and request a TOW truck if NECESSARY
GATHER information: it is important to gather information in case YOU need to make a claim later ON GET the following information from ALL parties involved: name address phone number email address make. Model and year of the CAR license plate number insurance carrier insurance policy number take notes about the accident. Including specific damages to ALL vehicles involved. Witness information. And what YOU believed caused the ACCIDENT TAKE notes about what the other driver’s said or what YOU heard witnesses say
if police are PRESENT: GET the officers name and badge or ID number or business CARD GET police report number (SO a police report CAN BE requested once it is PREPARED)
TAKE photographs of: all vehicles. Whether damaged or not the accident location the parties involved in the ACCIDENT PEOPLE involved with the ACCIDENT
DO NOT DO the ANY of the FOLLOWING: RELEASE your social security number to ANYONE DO NOT admit fault. Even if YOU think YOU are
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