if you get in a car accident what you
should do
obviously is pull over
make sure your health is the number one
concern but after that i should try to
get the names of any witnesses you
should exchange information with the
other driver if at all possible getting
their driver’s license and their
insurance take down their license plate
as well take pictures of the site
assuming if you can do it great if you
can’t do it there’s something in the car
who can do it great if not you’re going
back or somebody’s going to go back on
your behalf and take pictures of the
accident scene things change over time
there may be skid marks leading up to
the accident and you take pictures of
that you may measure the skid marks
you’re really
i’m putting too much of a burden on the
plaintiff right now
doing the things at the accident scene
should be done but a lawyer should be
able to
handle the bulk of it but then again
sometimes people don’t hire a lawyer the
next day sometimes they’re in the
hospital in severe condition what should
happen in that situation
have a friend or relative take the
pictures of the site but also have the
friend or relative start a journal
the journal is going to be on this day
this is how the individual felt he’s
pain in the back pain here surgery
happened here this is the medication
he’s on he or she is on
and you have this in-depth journal of
the suffering that the individual went
day by day by day by day
and the reason you do that one it’s a
contemporaneous record and it’s
admissible at trial but two
unfortunately many people when their
depositions taken a year later
don’t really remember the specifics of
the pain they went through
in fact people sometimes tend to block
out the negative
so now it’s really their bad storyteller
if they don’t have that record you need
pictures you need pictures if there’s a
serious accident you want pictures on
the day of on the day of the accident of
the injuries and the next day and the
next day because when you want to
explain to a jury how you suffered a
picture is worth a thousand words
and you can really see it with the black
and blue and the stitches and the cast
etc
so pictures and a journal is what you
should do