rev up your engines, today I'm gonna talk about the five things that you should
never do when you get into a car wreck, now get into a car wreck it's often a
traumatic experience, so you have to be prepared ahead of time, just don't wait
till it happens and then things start going that are out of control
learn to control it yourself, and the first thing not to do is, don't let the
tow truck drivers that come let them take your car where they want to take it
you want to have a place that you want that car towed to, to get fixed, so if you
don't know good body shop, hey tow to your house, by law they have to be able
to tow it to your house, then later you can have it towed to shops to get fixed, but
really you want to know a good body shop in the first place, put it on your phone
then you're prepared, because almost all those tow truck drivers are what's
called bird doggers, if they tow your car to shop they're affiliated with, they get
a kickback on the money that's spent on repairing the car, you want to have it
taken to an honest repair shop, that you know is going to do good work that isn't
doing kickbacks with people, now the next thing not to do is, don't say that it was
your fault for the accident, don't take responsibility for anything, you let
the facts speak for themselves, and in at respect, see if you can get the police to
come to the accident, because nothing beats a good police report, in case
somebody tries to say it was your fault when it wasn't your fault, the police
report is what they always take in court has the best evidence, as an example
years ago I had a customer in their toyota, they were driving south on a
green light, it had just turned green, going east west was a guy who t-boned
him smashed right into them, he ran a red light and smashed into them, but the guy
who smashed into my customer, Hey they weren't waiting around, what they
did was, they said oh we got to be somewhere, we're not waiting for the
police to come and they took off, before they did, my customer said she saw them
giving money to these two guys at a bus stop who were witnesses and said that oh
she ran a red light not him, now if the police would have shown
up, there's no way that those people were gonna lie in front of a policeman and
say, oh we saw her run the red light somebody's sitting at a bus stop yeah
they're watching the light right in the traffic to see who goes where, they have
no idea what's going on, the guy just bribed them and her
company ended up paying the other guy even though the other guy t-boned her
now she wanted to fight it, but her insurance company said if you fight it
will drop your insurance coverage, because they don't want to get involved
in a case court well that's not fair you know, so if you can get the police to
come to the scene of an accident that's much better than having some hearsay
about what actually happened or somebody just bribing witnesses to make it look like
they didn't do it, now the next thing not to do is don't
forget to take pictures, take a picture of the car the other person was driving, of
the damaged area of your car, take pictures of the surrounding area, if you
got a video make a video of it, because I had a customer wants who was rear-ended
by somebody and they claimed that my customer backed up into them, well they
took pictures of it and they proved from all the surrounding areas that they were
just driving down the road and this person rear-ended them, they didn't back up in
the middle of the road and run into them, remember a picture is worth a
thousand words, take pictures of what happened in the accident and even though
it's a traumatic situation, make sure you get the other person's information, make
sure their driver's license, the name, the address matches their insurance
information, I've had more people get hit by people who didn't have insurance and
they'd say something like, oh don't worry we'll pay for it, you don't go for that
baloney, if the person does not have proof of insurance there call the police
and if they drive away, take a picture of their license plate of them and file
hit-and-run report because there's so many people out there trying to pull
sleazy things in an accident, you want to make sure you cover all your bases, and
in that respect even if you don't have full coverage, make sure you have
uninsured motorist coverage like I do, because one time I got hit by somebody
and they decide they're going to take off, well I took a picture of their license
plate in their car, filed the hit-and-run report, and my insurance paid for it and
then strangely enough years later, I got a
refund for my deductible because they caught the person, took him to court and made
them pay for the whole thing, so you have to make sure you keep your wits about
yourself if you do get an accident that's why you got to do a lot of this
planning ahead, of thinking okay if this happens what am I gonna do, have it all
set up and if your type of person that you're worried you're gonna forget, put
it on your phone as a note or put a little notebook in your glove box and
write down steps to do if I get in an accident, now the last thing not to do if
you get in an accident, especially if it's a relatively serious accident is
don't say, oh I'm okay I don't need to see a doctor, get yourself checked out
especially if it was a big wreck, where the airbag deployed or you hit the
steering column even though you have the seat belt on
realize if you got the seat belt on you're still going to get all kinds of
bruises from the seat belt, you can get internal injuries that you think aren't
any big deal that can kill you, sadly I've had more than one of my
customers die that way, they get in a wreck a pretty big one and they'd say, oh I'm
okay I can walk around and then later they died of either an embolism from
something finally exploding and finish them off
or they have internal bleeding and they end up dying from that, if you do get in
a big accident make sure you go to the hospital and get checked out, you don't want
to have something serious happened to you because it can be a very traumatic
experience, I mean I once did the shoot for the Houston Police Department where
they tell you to wear your seatbelt and you just ride on this little sled and
you're only going like four miles an hour, at the end of the four miles an hour
the sled just stops and that seatbelt it hurt
my ribs and a month later I could still
feel them and that was in a little sled going four miles an hour with a seatbelt on
being an ex hockey player I thought, hey smash into people all the time on the ice
it's nothing on the seatbelt machine right,
but guess again, your on the ice you get hit you slide around and unless your rammed
totally into the boards, the energy is gonna be dissipated sliding your body
around on the ice, when you're sitting in a seat with a seatbelt on, even four
miles an hour of a dead stop and it hurt my ribs for months, so if you
get in a larger wreck make sure you go to the hospital, oh I feel okay, you never
know when your going that fast if your old like me, hey don't forget to have
your Medicare card, cuz if you don't have your Medicare card, you might have a
hassle in the hospital, they'll know who you are and you'll have the insurance
covered at least, and now you know what to do or what not to do if you get in a
car accident, because really it's bad enough getting in a car accident, you don't
want to have a whole bunch of more hassles to follow it down the line, if
you don't do the right things after it happens, so if you never want to miss
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