Every morning before going to work, while taking out your car, you hope not to become involved in a very inconvenient traffic problem or worse, an accident with other cars or vehicles.
Unfortunately, once you are out on the road, you only have control of your car and not anything else happening in the highway, especially not the other drivers. Thus, accidents, even if you pray hard not to happen, are quite unpredictable.
With this in mind, it also pays that you should know what to do when you indeed become involved in an accident.
If you happen to become involved in a car accident like car collisions or crashes with other vehicles, the details of which somehow found its way into newspaper and television reports, you have to take advantage of this opportunity of having qualified evidence taken by professionals.
Unless you have a degree of liability or fault in the accident, you have all the right to file for car accident claims and recover for the damages you suffer. Thus, you can use these live pieces of evidence to show the damages you have sustained. As we all know, you have to gather as much information as you can regarding the accident. Having this featured on print media and TV is a decided advantage in your favor in order that you gain more information about your accident.
Here is what you can do:
• Scour local and national newspapers and check out if their articles gave a detailed and accurate account of the car collision / crash.
Clip the articles that have details of the incident.
Locate other articles that feature events related to the day you had your car collision accident. You might get some articles that mentioned something about the weather on that day. Check out those articles that came out specifically on the day of your accident. You can also clip some information related to what you think had caused the accident, like road works or construction.
Once you cut out any articles from newspapers, make sure that you do not forget cutting, pasting it together with the date, page, and name of the newspaper. You can also note such information at the top article of the newspaper.
• Pictures are very good evidence. If you failed to take pictures of the scene where the accident occurred, it is a good idea that you find photos of it along with scouring for articles. Furthermore, look out for pictures about the crash.
It is possible that there are accompanying pictures in the articles about the accident. If you do not find anything at all, you might also try contacting the newspaper offices for pictures they have taken but was unable to use.
If it turns out that they do have unpublished photographs, make it a point to request permission to visit their office and pick up some copies.
• Look out for TV coverage of your car accident. Some accidents are quite spectacular for the media that the incident could have major television news or TV traffic report coverage.
If your car collision accident happens to get TV coverage, exert some effort to have it taped. You might be given a new perspective on what happened due to the angle on how the video shot was taken.
These are but some of the valuable and valid information that could immensely help in building up your car collision accident case. Make sure to give copies to your car collision lawyer too.
By: Carla C. Ballatan