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Whenever an accident occurs an accident being defined as
any ease in which a vehicle makes contact with another object, the
drive.- ias to report virtually everything. To ease reporting of
accident cases there are standard forms that the drivers fill ­
with various copies. The copies are sent to Insurance Department
i.e. Corporate Risk Management, one copy to personal file of the
driver, and one copy to Company Lawyers.
The CAB Insurance Company handles the legal cases if a third
party is involved.
The Other Copies made include the: (1) Federal Accident report
and this is normally required for statistics of planning of the
Federal Government and planning purpose - If there are other private
properties involved there must be a policy report covered.
Then the estimates for the damages are made within the reportsv
and normally if outside repairs may be needed two independent outside
repairers bid for the work. Then the better of the two is selected,
normally the better being the cheaper of the two bidders.
D.O.T. - Department of Transportation.
Among the information covered by the report is:­
1. The number of the accident - Unit No. of Accident.
2. Date and time of accident.
3. Location of accident, key town and state.
4. Brief desciiption of the accident.
5. Driver (Name) and hs location.
6. Tractor aLnd Trailer number.
7. Product being carried.
8. Cost repair to the Company equipment.
9. Remarks +
After some duration, the case is re-written but excluding the
driver's nume and brought to the accident Review Committee for hndling.
The accident review committee deals with the disciplinary action on
driver especially after accident. It is composed of 1 person from the
Insurance Company, 2 from Management, and three people from the
representatives of the drivers.
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