Dougherty and Holloway, LLC specialize in litigation involving personal injury and wrongful death claims.  We are dedicated to serving and assisting those persons and families who have suffered from their accident or injury.  In an unfortunate event that you or a loved one may be involved in an accident, we felt it necessary to provide you with the top 7 procedures one should follow.  The following list provides the overview and we’ll provide the detail to each step in a series of posts over the next several days.

1.  Proper Medical Treatment

2.  Witnesses

3.  Photographs of Scene and Vehicles

4.  Diagram Accident Scene

5.  Notification to Trucking Company

6.  Document Medical Care

7.  Hire Experts in Truck Accidents

1.  First, make sure you or your loved one receives the medical care needed.  This means you will need to go to a hospital, possibly by ambulance, to be evaluated.  Many times, a person will suffer injury, even serious injury, and not realize the nature or extent of that injury.  Especially if the collision is substantial, a thorough evaluation of personal injuries needs to be made where they have competent staff and medical equipment to fully evaluate your injuries.

It is also important to tell the emergency room doctor or other personnel about every complaint that you have, even those areas of your body that have lesser pain or complaint than other areas.  Documentation of all injuries is very important.  You may be focused on one particular area of injury which is causing you the most pain and discomfort at the time, but another area of injury may be as or more significant but doesn’t show up until later, even days and weeks.  Please try to advise the healthcare personnel of all areas of pain or discomfort.

Also, follow up care with doctors and therapists, even after being released from the hospital, is likewise very important.

Do not assume that everything is okay, but have all injuries evaluated as soon as possible after the truck accident.  If you have any questions, contact us at www.truckaccidentlegalcenter.com or by phone at 1-800-943-8529.

This is just the first in a series of steps that must be taken in the event that you or a loved one are involved in a truck accident.

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