What to do if you’re in an Accident

Car accidents can be very stressful. Learn the following tips to help you know what you should do if you're involved in a car accident.

First, stay calm when the car accident occurs. Keeping calm helps you stay in control of the situation.

Second, make sure you and your passengers are all right. Get off the car and move as far off the roadway as possible, but stay at the scene of the accident. At the same time, you should activate your hazard warning lights or setting flares to warn oncoming traffic.

Third, don’t forget to call the police. Call 911 or the appropriate emergency number to report the accident. And Contact your insurance company and report the claim. Tell your insurance company about the accident as soon as possible so that your claim could be resolved as early as possible. Do remember that do not discuss the car accident with anyone else except for the police and your claims representative.

Fourth, exchange important information with the other driver involved in the car accident. Record down the name, phone number, address and license numbers for all drivers and witnesses. Write down the information of those who were not riding in a vehicle involved in the accident. Ask for the insurance companies and policy numbers for drivers involved in the car accident.

Bus Accidents

Each year, hundreds of people across the U.S. are killed in bus and motorcycle accidents.19,000 people were injured in bus accidents in 2002 according to the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration. Because more and more individuals choose to use public transportation each year, the number of injuries and even death increases.

The chief causes of bus accidents come from dangerous roadways, poor weather conditions and driver negligence and improper maintenance. Each school day more than 25 million children ride the yellow school bus back and forth to school. There are about 450,000 school buses in service to date, and bout 16,000 school bus collisions occur annually, which can result in 12,000 injuries and 130 deaths.

The personal injuries resulting from bus-related accidents include brain and spinal cord injuries; abrasions; sprains; fractures; internal and soft tissue injuries; burn injuries; and other injury associated with the operation of other motorized vehicles, including death.

Seat Belt Tips for Child Passenger Safety

Child passenger safety is important. Some measures need to take to protect your children in case of a car accident. To be effective, these child passenger safety devices such as child safety seat and child seat belt must be used properly. As a driver, you should make sure you are responsible for child passenger safety while driving.

There are some Child Safety Seat Tips for drivers. Learn the safety requirements and basic facts for proper use of child safety seats.

It is important to know that your child passenger safety devices are working properly at all times. All children of age 12 and below should be buckled up in the rear seat of the vehicle. Children of age 8 should ride in an appropriate child safety seat, unless they are 4 feet 9 inches tall and weigh 80 pounds.

Make sure not place a single seat belt over yourself and a child. The child could be crushed by your body if a front-end collision occurs.

A seat belt must be adjusted properly to the size of a child. As with adults, the lap belt should cross the child's upper thighs and the diagonal belt should cross the upper chest and a point between the neck and the center of the shoulder.

Children should continue to use a belt-positioning booster until the lap and shoulder belts fit properly. The child's legs are long enough to bend at the edge of the seat.

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