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very first call after you should after you get in the crash probably should be to the police or to emergency personnel. Obviously, it depends on what the situation is. Um, you know, here somebody if somebody’s hurt badly, health is always the most important thing and you want to get the medical people there. Um, I’ll I’ll say I have lots of clients call me from the scene of the crash. Sometimes that’s I guess I look at it as maybe not the best choice and that they should be calling other
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people. But I mean I think nowadays people do that because when they get in the crash they don’t know what to do. So if you don’t know what to do, get on the phone, you know, call me. I’ll help walk you through it. But the probably the next best person to get there is going to be law enforcement andor medical people so that everybody at the scene can get taken care of so that the police can start to collect information. Now, no offense to the police, but the police don’t always um have all the
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right information either. Police reports, as silly as it might seem to people in crashes, are not evidence when it comes to court. So, while they’re helpful and they can use it to refresh your rec recollection of the officer later if you need them to testify, you know what you’re really trying to do is get somebody else there to get the information from the other party, from any witnesses at the scene from just take photos to lay things out as needed. And then always to make sure that first
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and foremost you’re taking care of anybody at the scene so that when people need medical attention they get it. Because as much as everybody wants to get compensated obviously we don’t want anybody to get hurt andor not to get attention so that injuries progress and bad things happen.
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