Your Redlands, CA auto insurance and this guide can help you best handle roadside emergencies.
While it's never ideal to break down on the road, this is a particularly bad time of year to find yourself in this situation. The colder weather and shorter daylight hours could leave you feeling stressed, and the busyness of the season makes the precious time you'll lose sitting on the shoulder frustrating. Fortunately, by knowing how to respond to the situation you can ease your pain, at least a little.
Use this guide and your auto insurance in Redlands, CA to handle your next roadside emergency safely and efficiently.
- Get out of the way! Your top priority to make sure your emergency situation doesn't escalate is to get out of the flow of traffic. Keep yourself and your passengers safely in your vehicle and navigate it to the nearest shoulder, exit, or, best yet, parking lot. Try to get to the right side of the road if you can.
- Be visible. So that help can find you and oncoming traffic can avoid you, do your best to make your car visible. Turn on your hazard lights, pop your hood, and set out triangles or flares if you have them.
- Wait for help. It might be tempting to leave your vehicle if help will be a while, but you need to stay with your vehicle. Not only does this make it easier for emergency responders to find you and address your situation, it also ensures further damage doesn't come to your car.
You can get yourself safely to the roadside, but you'll still need help to come to you. Will you have it? If you have the right
auto insurance in Redlands, CA with roadside emergency assistance coverage, you'll know exactly who to call. To learn more about this kind of coverage,
contact Little & Sons Insurance Services. We serve drivers in Banning, Beaumont, Calimesa, Redlands, and the surrounding California area.
