App Info : Michelle Singletary | App gathers info after wrecks | The Courier-Journal

Thankfully, I haven’t been in many automobile accidents. But the one
major crash I was in involving another driver, I took down quite a bit of information.
The accident wasn’t my fault. Nonetheless, I wanted to make sure the other driver
wouldn’t try to change his story after I
contacted his insurance company. I had my
reporter’s notebook handy and took down the guy’s driver’s license number, insurance information, home telephone number (it was long before cellphones were ubiquitous) and his home address. I even collected similar information from a witness to the accident.

When I called to report the crash, the claims
representative was impressed with how
thorough I had been. Turns out most of the information I gathered could have put the driver and the witness in jeopardy of identity theft, according to the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC).

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