Below is some general advice on what to do after a road traffic accident:
- Exchange names address and phone numbers of all party’s involved.
- Ensure you get the drivers insurance details.
- Note the names and addresses of any witnesses.
- Take a description of the car, including year, make, model, colour and damage sustained.
- Note the location of the accident, time and date.
- Inform the Police, a police report is very important
- Report the accident to your motor insurance company as soon as you can.
- Find a good accident lawyer
If you manage to gather the information above, this will help you put your road traffice accident claim together. They are the pieces of information that your lawyer will need and will ask for quite early on. So once you find a good accident lawyer sending all these details straight away will be most of the hard work done. Then its a matter for the lawyer to deal with.
It really is worth putting in a claim for compensation especially if you have suffered quite badly and you lost a lot of income due to being off work sick. This is why claim compensation is the right thing to do. If you dont put a claim in you will be losing out to money that is righly yours.
Call Accident Consult today and speak to one of our advisors and find out if it is worth pursing your road traffic accident compensation claim.
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