Auto Accident in Charlotte: Filling in the Memory Gap
You or someone you love was hurt in auto accident in Charlotte. You want to do whatever you need to do to protect yourself, legally speaking, and obtain fair compensation for the destruction to your vehicle, your medical bills, your long-term therapies and any rehab you might need.
To maximize your chances for success, you need to amass potentially useful evidence. This could include police reports, accident reports, witness statements, pictures of the accident scene, identifying information for all the parties involved in the accident, specific things said in conversations with insurance adjusters and other witnesses, et cetera. To the extent that you can obtain this good evidence and pass it along to your attorney (whether you retain the team here at DeMayo Law to represent you in your North Carolina accident or not) is to the extent that you’ll increase your likelihood for positive results.
Unfortunately, many drivers don’t realize this fact until way after the accident.
Also, drivers in serious accidents often forget critical details of what happened. And everyone’s memory fades, changes, and warps over time. That’s just the nature of human memory – we “color” our memories based on our current experiences or feelings. So the longer you wait to record, objectively, your current memory and your feelings and what you thought occurred, the harder it will be to capture what actually took place with a high degree of accuracy.
How do we solve this “memory gap” problem?
Here are a few key points:
1: It’s never too late to start amassing information.
Maybe it’s been a few days or even a week since your Charlotte auto accident, and you’ve already forgotten the color of the car that hit you or even what you said to the other guy’s insurance adjuster when he called your house. That’s fine. Get into gear now. Collect critical information, start keeping records – and just get in the game.
2: Seriously consider getting in touch with an attorney.
The team at the Law Offices at Michael A. DeMayo has a tremendous amount of experience and a great reputation for helping auto accident victims. But the longer your wait to retain an accident firm, the more time the insurance companies and other liable defendants will have to build a case against you – and potentially build a countercase to try to hit you for liability.
3: Do your best to be as accurate as possible.
Avoid embellishing, making stuff up, or going “beyond what you know for sure.” Be honest. And you want to be honest not just because it’s the right thing to do, but also because, if you lie or embellish or even make accidental mistakes, and the defense team can prove that you have done this, your chances for success drop dramatically. Honesty really is always the best policy.
