{"id":32,"date":"2026-07-29T11:40:25","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T11:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-attorney-pro\/2026\/07\/29\/what-to-do-in-the-first-48-hours-after-a-car-accident\/"},"modified":"2026-09-25T11:40:25","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T11:40:25","slug":"what-to-do-in-the-first-48-hours-after-a-car-accident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-attorney-pro\/2026\/07\/29\/what-to-do-in-the-first-48-hours-after-a-car-accident\/","title":{"rendered":"What to do in the first 48 hours after a car accident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What you do in the two days after a collision shapes the claim more than anything that happens later. Evidence is never more available than it is right now.<\/p>\n<h2>At the scene<\/h2>\n<p>Call the police and get a report number. Photograph all vehicles, the road, skid marks, signage and the weather. Get names and phone numbers for every witness \u2014 the police report often misses some.<\/p>\n<h2>Get checked, even if you feel fine<\/h2>\n<p>Soft-tissue injuries and concussions routinely present a day or two later. A gap between the collision and your first medical visit is the first thing an insurance adjuster will point to.<\/p>\n<h2>Be careful what you sign<\/h2>\n<p>The other driver&#8217;s insurer may call within a day asking for a recorded statement and a broad medical authorization. You are not obliged to give either. Decline politely and call an attorney first.<\/p>\n<h2>Keep everything<\/h2>\n<p>Bills, mileage to appointments, days missed at work, and a short note each evening on how you actually feel. Contemporaneous notes are persuasive in a way that memory is not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What you do in the two days after a collision shapes the claim more than anything that happens later. Evidence is never more available&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-personal-injury"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-attorney-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-attorney-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-attorney-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-attorney-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-attorney-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-attorney-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-attorney-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions\/57"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-attorney-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-attorney-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-attorney-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-attorney-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}