Getting Your Mazda 6 Towed After an Accident

If you own a Mazda 6 sedan, you have a car that is fitted with all the latest safety features. However, accidents do happen and many drivers are confused about what happens next. If your Mazda 6 needs to be towed after an accident has occurred, it can be a daunting experience, and the towing industry has a less than stellar reputation. In this article, we will examine the procedure in more detail and look at some issues that you need to be aware of.

Try to Stay Calm

It can be hard to stay calm after an accident, and it can be easy to treat the tow truck driver as your saviour. However, it’s important to keep perspective, and you may not even want to hitch your Mazda 6 to the first tow truck that happens along. S0, if you need a tow truck what do you do?

Dealing with a Towing Service

Before you take any action or sign any piece of paper, you need to call your insurance provider, and they may be able to help. The insurer could organise the tow for you and inform you of what you should expect. The towing coverage can vary a great deal depending upon your insurer, and you may not even be covered for towing. It’s a great idea to check your policy disclosure statement to verify this ahead of time to ensure that you’re not caught off guard if a towing situation arises.

Don’t ever sign a black towing authority form; there are many unscrupulous towing firms out there that will be happy to fill in the blanks to their advantage. Make sure that the form has the full address where the car will be towed to and how much the towing fee is. Carefully read the fine print, this can be hard after an accident, but if it’s dark get some light and read the entire document. If you don’t, you could be signing up for more than you bargained for and this could be expensive.

Some typical tricks that a nefarious towing company will use include burying outlandish storage fees somewhere in the fine print and even "carnapping" schemes. The "carnapping" scheme is where you sign a clause that ties you into using a specific repairer with legal ramifications if you change your mind later. This is technically legal, but a nefarious and predatory practice nonetheless. If you sign one of these dodgy contracts, you can end up paying inflated fees for storage and repairs. If you’re locked into an agreement that goes over your insurance coverage you could easily find yourself covering the excess out of your own pocket.

The Final Word

Any signed contracts will be treated as legal, and the exact legislation can vary a great deal depending on where you live. Always double and triple check any document before you sign it and if you’re unhappy, refuse the service.

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