As any emergency service member will tell you, the term Road Traffic Accident is no longer used and has been replaced with Road Traffic Collision because it has been deemed that there is no such thing as an accident and that someone can be held to account.
If you are involved in an incident and find yourself facing this mentality of others wishing to apportion blame , then you would be wise to take the step of hiring an investigator to work on your behalf to help establish the facts and absolve you of any culpability.
The reasons for vehicle collisions are too numerous and varied to list but as an example you can have it range from factory defects on new cars through to being hit by another driver who was under the influence of drink or drugs.
Finding out which matters affected you is paramount when building a case against a third party in an accident claims process.
Therefore hiring a professional accident investigator will give your claim the best chance of success.
The rationale for hiring an accident investigator is that the scene of an RTC can be overwhelming for those caught up in it, with the possibility of multiple cars and casualties involved and the attendance of the emergency services.
Couple this with the fact you may be injured or at the very least suffering from the effects of adrenaline (which can cause, amongst other things, uncertainty and an inability to think properly), understandably your priorities are not on evidence gathering for future determination of blame and compensation.
After the event a professional accident claims investigator will be able to make sense of the situation, even if well intentioned members of the general public trying to render assistance compromised the location, or that the cars involved will have been moved by the authorities and they will also understand that eyewitnesses can remove themselves from the area.
That is why it is critical that you hire a professional investigator as soon as is feasible because the earlier you do this the better the chance they will have of gathering evidence that could prove vital in a possible claim.
An accident investigator will do the following to help determine what happened at a crash location:
Photograph and create a plan of the scene, inclusive of road measurements.
Interview the other people involved and any witnesses.
Gather statements and carry out Police interviews.
Compile a report based on their findings.
One of our case studies highlights just how an accident investigator can assist you.
This case involved our investigator ascertaining additional information about the driver of the convertible car that had struck our client and discovered that the driver had in fact been standing on his seat just prior to the incident.
You can imagine how valuable that piece of information was to the client in his claim for compensation against the driver.
Our award winning private detective had been able to serve our client well by gathering vital evidence that even the Police had been unable to ascertain.
After being involved in a Road Traffic Collision it is important that you make things right for yourself and your family.
You owe it to yourself to get the best assistance possible and getting the right accident claims investigator is a step in the right direction.
Go Executive Protection Ltd is a company that can provide a top level Private Investigator or Investigators and do so at a highly competitive price.