Suppose you ride a bike and for God’s sake, you come across an accident, what to do next, how to act. Passion for bikes and biking has been increasing for ages, and for that, there’s a proportional increase in the number of accidents.
Self-care
After a bike accident, all you need to do is take care of yourself, your belongings, any member with you, and call the police for further investigation. You might get deep wounds and injuries, for that you need to use your medical tools or visit the nearest medical booths.
Going through an accident is not only a hurt or injurious to your putter body, but sometimes it also hurts or shocks your mind and for that, you can seek your lawyer’s help and claim for any psychiatric injuries too.
Medical considerations
A medical checkup is a must after an accident because there’s a chance of getting injuries that might not show up at that time but would disturb your lifestyle in near future. For example, any muscular pain on the neck or backside. Medical assistance is necessary so that you can claim for those injuries you got or else you’ll have to pay for them instead of the driver.
Professional assistance
Finally, call your lawyer and seek every legal advice from him, about what the driver owes you and how can you win the case against him/her with all the evidence you gathered after or on the incident. Your lawyer would guide you on how to succeed in claiming damages.
Call your relatives/friends for help
You read that right. Calling your loved ones, relatives or friends is as important as calling the police. You must inform them about the incident.
Common Reasons for Bike Accidents
Bike accidents can be unpredictable. Each year hundreds of cyclists are involved in collisions with motor vehicles. As a result, many suffer serious injuries and even death. To help cyclists avoid being involved in an accident with motorcycles or cars here is the list of common reasons that cause these accidents:
- Speeding. Riding your bike at high speeds and competing with cars is not understood well by a common man, as it multiplies the risk of riding a bike. The bike might get out of control and collide
- Distracted riding. Like car drivers, bike riders nowadays have been fond of checking their phones, listening to high music, and using other elements which distract them from bike and road.
- Riding close to traffic. Bikers believe they can ride like a pro, but they fail to maintain a two to three feet distance from other motor vehicles, which causes them fatal accidents.
Keep Calm and Wait for Police to Arrive
Firstly, after an accident, you need to call the police if any causality occurs, or even if injuries seem minor, you still need police for case evidence and reports. The police will take your report of what happened and why. Moreover, you and the driver ought not to leave the place where this accident occurred.
Get Driver
The next step you take is gathering the driver’s information to contact after this incident regarding anything. The driver’s license, vehicle’s plate number, colour, shape, model, driver’s name, ID card, insurance, registration, and number are necessary. Ask for insurance Company and policy number, vehicle registrations.
Gather Evidence and Wait for Police Report
After this, you need to be unemotional, calm and capture the incident’s photos for evidence and information purpose. You need to add and everything into the photographs, the condition of the road, signals, any traffic rules violated, condition of your vehicle, damage to your property, waste created, and every element that’s associated with the accident. Wait for the police to analyze your case and come up with a report.
Exchange Contact and Insurance Information
Once done with all these, do exchange your contacts. Sharing your insurance information would be perfect because they would compensate your losses and provide you with every assistance they can. But remember, no compromises, neither negotiations.
Lastly, a driver’s insurance company might be fond of misguiding and playing a victim’s card or would ask for forgiveness sometimes, but you should remain consistent. Get contact information from the driver, his phone number, address so that you could contact him.