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Speaker 1: Snow and ice making driving a real challenge this morning and so many mornings
before this winter.
Other Speaker: Indeed, an attorney that sees many serious injuries and car collisions is
Karl Truman. It is a good time today to share some information that could help you and your
family from getting hurt. As always, welcome. Good to see you here.
Karl Truman: Good morning, thank you. It's good to be here, good to be back.
Other Speaker: Uh, that's the whole situation here for people at this time of year when
I drive home I see 14 cars littered off on the side here, too, so, obviously, we, you
know, we're talking about legal services and you have tips for people as well.
Karl Truman: Sure, you know, as an attorney, I, I see a lot of really serious automobile
collisions, and one of the things that I stress is not just what to do after you're in it,
but, you know, how to be preventative, 'cause that's one of the things that we stress is,
you know, whether it's workplace safety, you know, automobile safety, you know, to, to
try to be more preventative and proactive and not just have to rely on coming to see
me to pick up the pieces afterwards.
Speaker 1: So make sure your car is prepared, is winterized, your tires and all of these
things.
Karl Truman: Ab...absolutely. Just some of the, some of the things to be thinking about
on a day like today, uh. Number 1, you know, if you don't have to go out, don't. I mean,
I know we all have to get to work and have to, you know, go places, but, you know, if,
if you have to get out wait for the road crews to do their job and get out of the way, and
make sure you don't try to pass them. You know, they may not be going as fast as you
want to go, so don't, don't try to pass a, a plow truck 'cause they have very limited
visibility and may not be able to see you.
Other Speaker: True that. One of the things I did when I was training my own sons to drive
too is on a day like today we'd go up to the fairground and when they're learning to drive
teach 'em how to handle ice a little bi,t too.
Karl Truman: And that's a great, that's a great tip because, you know, just as you're
learning to drive, you know, you can have a parking lot not to go do donuts in the parking
lot but just to practice how your call feel in that situation is just a matter of preparedness
so you know what to expect when that time comes.
Speaker 1: And sometimes too when you're in that situation and you're on a slick road
you might hit a little, uh, icy patch and you panic and you're braking and really, how
should you handle that situation if you do hit a piece of ice?
Karl Truman: Well, and that's a good point about braking is to make sure, you know, we
always, uh, you know, talk about the two second rule as far as being behind a car. Leave extra,
uh, distance behind the car you're following. You know, you know, if a couple car lengths,
even make it bigger than that because you want to have that extra time, uh, because
actually one of the most common automobile collisions that I see is rear-end collisions
for people not leaving enough distance behind that car in front of 'em. Well, if it's slick
out like today, double and triple that. You know, you... and so if you do hit something
don't just slam on the brakes; you, you want to be able to brake gradually and slowly where
so you don't lose control.
Other Speaker: And clearly the lower gears are important too. I think a lot of people
forget the fact that you just put your car in drive and off you go. Well, in this kind
of weather condition.
Karl Truman: Oh, absolutely, absolutely. And uh, you know, another point is about the cruise
control. If it's, if there's icy patches you don't want to use the cruise control because
then that's gonna want to make the wheels spin up and you could very easily lose control.
Other Speaker: Right.
Speaker 1: And then also, too, you know, the snow and ice that we've had this winter our
car starts to build up. We have all the salt on the car. You want to try to keep that clean
as often as you can when we have the little breaks in the weather like we did earlier
this week because that builds up and that just decreases the visibility when the snow
comes back again.
Karl Truman: Oh, absolutely. And, and to keep the visibility up and, you know, not to just,
uh, wipe of a little bitty hole so you can peek through.
Speaker 1: Ha ha, yeah.
Karl Truman: And, uh, so, you know, we want to make sure that, uh, your, your windshield
is clear.
Other Speaker: All right, you're in a bump situation and you think you're, you think
you may have been injured. Call an attorney, uh, and don't answer questions from insurance
people until.
Karl Truman: Well, yeah, of course at the scene you want to make sure everybody's okay.
You know, call 911, call the police; call an ambulance if it's necessary. And I, one
of the things as far as documenting things now is most everybody has a cell phone with
photos on it that you can take pictures and document things, uh, because a lot of times
evidence by the time I get involved, uh, sometimes evidence can be lost, so that is important.
Other Speaker: All right. Good call.
Speaker 1: And one thing you told me I got right here, this ice scraper. I've been using
mine all winter long. It has saved me this winter, so you can get one of those.
Karl Truman: This is some, what I was talking about, making sure you don't just have that
little peep hole. You want to be able to scrape your windshield --
Other Speaker: Ha ha ha ha.
Karl Truman: -- to make sure that, uh, your windshield is clear and you can see through
it, so we're giving away as a service to, uh, the community and help people out we're
giving away free ice scrapers. All you have to do is call my office and I will send you
one for free.
Other Speaker: Very nice, and in the summer time flip burgers.
Karl Truman: Ha ha ha, there you go.
Other Speaker: Put it to use again.
Speaker 1: Dual purpose.
Other Speaker: We appreciate it Karl. You can find attorney Karl Truman online at trumanlaw.com.
Speaker 2: Get one of those ice scrapers. You can reach his office at 502 222 2222.