After an Accident, step by step
Educational reference. Legal duties vary; this reflects common requirements.
- Stop and make it safeHazards on, engine off. Stopping is a legal duty in most countries.
- Check for injuriesCall emergency services if anyone is hurt or the road is blocked.
- Exchange detailsName, address, registration, insurer. Required by law in most places.
- Photograph everythingAll vehicles, positions, damage, road layout, signs, conditions.
- Note witnessesNames and numbers, before they leave.
- Report itTo your insurer even if you do not claim; and to police where required.
Do not
- Admit fault at the scene
- Agree to settle privately before assessing damage
- Move vehicles before photographing, unless unsafe
Educational reference. Not reporting to your insurer can invalidate cover even when you intend to pay for repairs yourself.
Questions about the After an Accident poster
- What’s on the After an Accident poster?
- 6 numbered steps, with a full worked run-through. Educational reference. Legal duties vary; this reflects common requirements. Stop and make it safe — Hazards on, engine off. Stopping is a legal duty in most coun…; Check for injuries — Call emergency services if anyone is hurt or the road is blocked.; Exchange details — Name, address, registration, insurer. Required by law in most places.; Photograph everything — All vehicles, positions, damage, road layout, signs, conditions.; Note witnesses — Names and numbers, before they leave.; Report it — To your insurer even if you do not claim; and to police where required.. Educational reference. Not reporting to your insurer can invalidate cover even when you intend to pay for repairs yourself.
- Who is the After an Accident poster for?
- After an Accident belongs to the Practical skills section rather than to a school year, because life skills is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning the car can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.
- When should you use the After an Accident poster?
- Stop. Exchange details. Photograph everything before anything moves. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so After an Accident belongs on the wall where that life skills work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.
- What other posters go with After an Accident?
- Breaking Down, Buying a Used Car and Car Emergency Kit sit alongside After an Accident in the Practical skills section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.Breaking DownBuying a Used CarCar Emergency Kit
- Is the After an Accident poster free to download and print?
- Yes. After an Accident downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Practical skills section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence
- What size does the After an Accident poster print at?
- After an Accident is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of After an Accident loses nothing.Printing guide
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