If you have been involved in a personal injury accident in Vaughan, your first responsibility is to ensure your own safety and the safety of anyone who is with you at the time of the incident. For example, if you are involved in a motor vehicle accident (which would include a car, truck, bicycle, motorcycle, or boat), make sure that you or your passengers haven\u2019t sustained any serious injuries. Check to see if everyone can move without any restrictions.<\/p>\n
Get Immediate Medical Attention, if Necessary<\/strong><\/p>\n Call 911 or the local emergency number for anyone requiring immediate medical attention. If you are not able to call yourself, ask a fellow passenger or a witness to make the call.<\/p>\n If you have suspicions that the other driver involved in the accident may be impaired, call the police. Make sure that no one moves anyone who appears to be injured; it could make their condition worse.<\/p>\n Collect Information at the Scene<\/strong><\/p>\n Once you have dealt with immediate medical attention for everyone who requires it, collect information at the scene, including name and contact information for the other driver, the name of his or her insurance company, policy number and expiry date, and licence plate number.<\/p>\n Take pictures with your cell phone, iPod, tablet,or a digital camera, if possible. Record images of the accident scene, as well as the weather conditions and any property that was damaged in the accident, such as guard rails, mail boxes, fences, etc.<\/p>\n Keep Comments to the Police Brief<\/strong><\/p>\n When speaking with a police officer at the scene, keep your comments brief and stick to the facts. Do not provide any personal opinions about the accident, assign or admit any blame for what has happened. If you are asked to fill out an accident report, request a copy of it.<\/p>\n Contact your Insurance Company<\/strong><\/p>\n Report the accident to your insurance company. Provide the information you have gathered about the other driver.<\/p>\n Visit your Doctor after the Accident<\/strong><\/p>\n Follow up with your doctor the day after the accident. Some injuries are not immediately apparent and you\u2019ll want to get a professional opinion about your health.<\/p>\n Contact a Vaughan Personal Injury Lawyer<\/strong><\/p>\n If you and your doctor believe that you have sustained mid-level to major injuries, contact a personal injury lawyer. Do this right away so that you can start your claim and apply for accident benefits.<\/p>\n If you have been injured in a personal injury accident in Vaughan, you need to seek expert legal advice by contacting Conte Associates by calling 1-877-614-0008. Based in Vaughan, Conte & Associates works with clients in Vaughan, and in the following cities in Ontario: Oshawa, Ajax, Pickering, Clarington, Newcastle, Courtice, Bowmanville, Newcastle, Port Perry, Belleville, and Peterborough.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" If you have been involved in a personal injury accident in Vaughan, your first responsibility is to ensure your own safety and the safety of anyone who is with you at the time of the incident. For example, if you are involved in a motor vehicle accident (which would include a car, truck, bicycle, motorcycle, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":606,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[130,10],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/contelawyers.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/contelawyers.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/contelawyers.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/contelawyers.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/contelawyers.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/contelawyers.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/contelawyers.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/contelawyers.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/contelawyers.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/contelawyers.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}