How to gather evidence after a car accident

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Hey there, Phoenix. Jared from Impact Legal. I wanted to chat with you a little bit about documenting your injury case, whether that’s an injury or an auto accident. A lot of them are going to be documented pretty similarly, but we’ll do some generalizations here.

Number one, make sure that you capture the details and write them down. Get a separate notebook for your case, or open up a new notepad in your phone. First, take pictures of the accident and the injury. Take pictures of your car: how messed up was it? Take pictures of the scene itself. Get as much as you can to document that. Videos are great, pictures are great, and a combination is the best.

Then your injury: if there’s a scar, a cut or anything like that, you’re going to want to take pictures and videos of that as much as you possibly can.

From there, keep a detailed record. Start a journal. Write out day one, what date that is, if you went to the ER or were taken away by ambulance, whatever it might have been. Include the emotional portions that go into that and what medical provider you saw. You want to paint an actual picture that you can follow.

At the end of the day, organize all that together and put it in one place. I would get a notebook, or open your phone and put it in a notepad. Whatever you do, put it somewhere where you’re going to remember and use it.

I see a lot of times that people don’t remember all the doctors they went and saw or all the details, and that eventually can hurt your case. I highly recommend you jot it down and get going. If you have any questions, feel free to reach out. Thank you.