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Inspired partly by Dane Cook's comedy routine about car accidents. ("..nobody ever has a f**in' pen!") I suggest people either do this themselves (it's simple enough), or that this service be provided by someone else (online would be nice), establishing a standard format.
The idea is that drivers
prepare all the relevant information pre-written (typed/printed is best) on convenient cards. These cards should be kept in cars or wallets, in case of collisions. They would contain all the relevant information (name, license, insurance, phone numbers, etc.) that people need to swap. It's faster and works even if the collision is so bad that one of the parties is unconscious and/or dead.
Nobody likes to think about the possibility of disaster, but just in case, having these babies on hand before it happens is a good way to ensure that nothing is missed in all the confusion and drama of the event.
Dane Cook
http://www.danecook.com/
You can buy a CD of his comedy routine here, too. "Harmful If Swallowed". (Click "Buy Stuff" link on left.) He so funny. :) [XSarenkaX, Oct 04 2004, last modified Oct 21 2004]
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surely a bluetooth version, or one linked with the fatal auto collision, that automatically beams the details to nearby vehicles and emergency services (+) |
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Eminently sensible, but wouldn't most people take it as a bad omen to carry them around? |
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perhapse "dog tags" for cars ... all the vital operator information, etc. on a metal tag located strategicaly on the car? |
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I actually got into a situation like this. I happened to have "personal" business cards on me that had all of the information...save for my license plate number. I actually got those business for free on-line! |
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Include a music preference during any ambulance ride. |
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+, but I'll pass. I have enough stuff in my wallet and my car already. |
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In twenty some odd years of driving, most of those years in a big city, I've only needed this once. A few weeks ago a teenager's Mustang introduced itself to my car's rear bumper. |
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Please understand, this is in addition to the insurance card you already have with policy information on it. |
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The way people drive around here they should get them printed like business cards. In boxes of 500. |
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It's bad luck. It taunts the car accident demons. |
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Go all the way and build a system in to the car? Using accelerometers and other sensors, a link to the car's computer and a gps system...[CRASH...bzzz bzzz...whir...DING], out pops a card from the integrated printer (maybe 2 copies) complete with date/timestamp, geographic coordinates, your vehicle's speed and direction, impact statistics (location and severity), insurance company info and your personal info. That would save a lot of time. |
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I’d like to have the information embossed on my bumper, mirror imaged, so when I hit someone, they could read the impression in their door or bumper. That way, I wouldn’t even have to get out—I could just drive off. Gosh, that would save me an hour or more every day.
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Funny you should write that, [pluterday]. I
was recently rear-ended and the offending
driver left an imprint of her license plate in
my bumper. |
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Tell me why I didn't have a collision card
handy when this happened. I half-baked
the things. Fact is, I always keep a
notepad, pen, and pencil in my car. Turns
out, the cops handled all the info anyway. |
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