The chances are that if you are unlucky enough to be involved in an accident in your vehicle, the thing furthest from your mind is gathering information for the insurance company or police. Our bodies have evolved to produce huge amounts of adrenalin when we experience dangerous situations which can cloud our judgment and prevent us from thinking clearly. In order to make things a little bit easier for you if you ever find yourself in this unfortunate situation, detailed here is a list of the important information that you should acquire after an accident occurs. One of the most useful pieces of information for insurers and investigating police officers is a simple visual overview of the resulting incident. While a sketched drawing does help to explain the situation, a photo is much better at displaying the resulting position of vehicles and debris, and any contributing factors of the accident to any interested parties. For this reason it is advisable to spend some moments after the accident (once everyone involved is safe) taking photos of not only the resulting impact, but also the road conditions surrounding the incident location. Obviously it is vital that you try to obtain contact information and the insurance details from the other drivers involved, and it would also be advisable to take down information regarding the registration number, make and model of the other vehicles involved. However, unfortunately even nowadays with computerized databases of drivers and insured vehicles there are still a large proportion of drivers that continue to use their vehicles without a proper license, road tax or insurance. If contesting the cause of the accident becomes difficult, one resource that can help to tip the scales in your favour is eye-witness accounts. For this reason it is important that you speak to all bystanders to find out if they observed the accident and if they are willing to give you their contact details so that they can be contacted by police or your insurance company for verification of your story. It is also important to jot down more specific information about the accident just in case any details are contested after the accident took place. Specifically you should record the exact number of drivers, passengers and pedestrians involved in the accident, the weather conditions and visibility level that was experienced at the time, as well as the time and date that the accident took place. It may also help to ask any attending police officers and other emergency services personnel for their names and identification numbers just in case that information is needed in the future. Read on – Accident Compensation