- • Check your vehicle occupants for injury
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- • If possible move your vehicle from the roadway to a safe location. Even if you have a flat tire or some other issue that would normally make the vehicle disabled try to move it from the roadway. The roadway is not a safe place to be! If you can steer it and it runs, clear it from the roadway!
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- • Check the other vehicle(s) occupants for injuries
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- • Contact Emergency Medical Services if there are any injuries
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- • If the vehicles involved are operable and no wreckers are needed exchange personal information, including name, phone number, address and driver’s license number.
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- • Exchange insurance information. Be sure to verify expiration date and get the telephone
number(s) for the insurance company.
Contact the HCSO at 713-221-6000 if:
- • You cannot remove the vehicle(s) from the roadway
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- • Any party is injured
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- • Any driver does not have a driver’s license
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- • Any driver does not have proof of insurance
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- • Any disturbance ensues
The traffic accident is not investigated by a law enforcement agency, AND
the accident resulted in injury or death of a person, OR
damage to the property of any one person is at least one thousand dollars $1,000.
Please read the instructions on the form carefully before submitting.
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