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- What should I do right after a car accident?

Hi, I'm attorney Chris Nicolaysen from Springs Law Group,

and I'm an auto accident attorney.

Today I wanted to talk about what to do,

right after you've been involved in an auto accident.

One of the first things that we recommend doing,

is to move your vehicle or your car,

off to a safe location.

Get it outside of the flow of traffic,

so that all parties involved in the accident,

are away and no one else is gonna get injured,

and that everybody's gonna remain safe,

as the next steps happen.

The next thing that we recommend is that you call 911,

if someone had been injured,

and if there were no injuries to call the local police

so that they can come out and file the proper report,

or make the proper report.

Then next we recommend that you start gathering information.

That information is going to be things like,

names of the drivers and passengers,

the number of drivers and passengers,

license plate information,

insurance information such as policy information,

and items like that.

And then next you want to take

pictures of the vehicles involved,

you want to take pictures of the surroundings,

you want to make sure that you take pictures of the road,

because one of the big questions we always like to ask too,

is what was the weather like the day of the accident itself?

And so it's always good to have a lot of photos

so you can actually see everything that was going on,

see the damage that was done to your vehicle,

the damage done to the other vehicle,

so those photos always come in handy, in the long run.

And then lastly we want you to report your accident

to your own insurance company.

To make sure that you call your insurance company afterwards

and report that accident to your insurance company as well.

So these are just some tips from us

here at Springs Law Group,

on what to do right after you've been

involved in an auto accident,

if you ever have any questions feel free to reach out to us,

at 719-421-7141,

or look us up on the web at springslawgroup.com,

we're here to help you.

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