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What To Do When Police Pull You Over
Seeing flashing police lights behind you can be an unsettling experience. Your heart may start beating faster, you may wonder what you did wrong, or you may simply feel nervous about being pulled over. But there is one thing every driver needs to remember. When a...
What Happens When Everyone Moves on After You Are Injured in a Crash?
The flashing lights are gone. The damaged vehicles have been towed away. The hospital visits become less frequent. The paperwork starts piling up. And slowly, the world around you begins to move on. But what happens when you can't? For many individuals injured...
A Crash Happens. What Can We Learn from It?
When a motor vehicle crash happens, we often focus on “Who was at fault?” But what if we shifted the conversation to something even more important: “How could this have been prevented?” A crash can change a person’s life in seconds. Injuries, emotional trauma,...
The Power of Connection: Trauma Survivors Network
If you are reading this, chances are you already know that recovery after a motor vehicle crash is not a straight path. You know what it feels like to celebrate a small victory that most people would never notice. You know how exhausting and isolating follow up...
What If Surviving the Crash Was Only the Beginning? Finding Purpose in Pain
After the initial healing began several weeks following my August 2024 motor vehicle accident, I was left with a troubling feeling that the car crash was like many things I’d overcome in my life. It was bad, but it wasn’t a tragedy. My injuries were challenging and...
Preventing Car Fires: Simple Steps That Can Save Lives
A vehicle fire can happen quickly. Sometimes it is caused by a mechanical or electrical problem. Other times, a fire may occur following a motor vehicle crash, when damage to the fuel system, battery, wiring, or other components creates a dangerous situation. At the...
Essential Railway Crossing Safety Tips for Every Driver
There are moments after a motor vehicle crash when the world feels different. Places you once drove through without a second thought can suddenly make you slow down. A particular intersection, a stretch of highway, flashing lights, the sound of brakes, or even a...
When the Sky Leads to Dangerous Weather Your Driving Needs to Change
You may leave home expecting an ordinary summer drive. The sun may be shining, the roads may be dry, and traffic may be moving normally. Then, within minutes, dark clouds roll in, the rain begins, visibility drops, and the road beneath your tires changes. Summer...
The Motor Vehicle Crash Didn’t Stop the Bills – Financial Reality
A motor vehicle crash can change your life in a matter of seconds. One moment, you are working, caring for your family, making plans for the future, and living your everyday life. The next moment, you are facing injuries, uncertainty, medical appointments, and a...
A Crash Scene is Not a Roadside Attraction
A vast majority of us have been stuck in traffic because of a motor vehicle crash. You’re on your way to work. Heading home. Taking the kids somewhere. Trying to make an appointment. Suddenly, traffic slows to a crawl. You see the flashing lights ahead. Police. ...
Survivors Find Unexpected Lessons in Life After a Crash
When we talk about the impact of a crash, the conversation often focuses on what was lost. We talk about the physical injuries, the emotional trauma, the medical treatments, the financial stress, and the changes that can completely alter a person’s life. We...
Hot Car Safety: What Not to Leave Behind
When summer temperatures soar, your vehicle can become more than uncomfortable. It can become dangerous. On a hot day, the temperature inside a parked vehicle can rise dramatically within minutes, even when the windows are cracked. Extreme heat can affect your...
Tips to Prevent Vehicle Theft: A Crash Survivor’s Perspective
A vehicle is more than four wheels and an engine. For many of us, our vehicle represents freedom. It gets us to medical appointments, therapy sessions, work, family gatherings, and the everyday moments that help us rebuild our lives after being involved in a motor...
Donating Blood: A Simple Act That Can Save the Life of a Crash Victim
Every day, lives are changed in an instant by serious motor vehicle crashes. I've often thought about those first few hours after my serious crash. While survivors may not remember what happened, trauma teams do. They remember the rush to stop the bleeding, stabilize...
Driving Through Wildfire Smoke: Road Safety Tips When the Air Turns Hazardous
Wildfire smoke can transform a familiar drive into a dangerous situation within minutes. Across many parts of Canada, communities are experiencing the impacts of wildfire smoke, bringing reduced visibility, poor air quality, and added challenges for drivers on the...
Healing Through the Haze: Wildfire Smoke and Crash Recovery
Wildfire smoke has become an unfortunate reality for many communities across the globe. Even if a wildfire is hundreds or thousands of kilometres away, smoke can travel long distances, affecting air quality and creating health concerns for everyone. As a survivor of a...
Driver Medical Emergency: What Passengers Should Know
Most of us get into a vehicle expecting to arrive safely at our destination. But what if the unexpected happens? What if the person driving suddenly experiences a medical emergency? A heart attack, stroke, seizure, diabetic emergency, or sudden loss of consciousness...
Why Electric Vehicles Scare Me
It happened again. I was recently walking through a parking lot, paying attention to the vehicles around me, when suddenly an electric vehicle was right behind me. I hadn't heard it approaching. There was no familiar engine noise warning me that a vehicle was moving...
How to Keep Children Safe on the Roads This Summer
Summer is finally here. School is out, the days are longer, and children are spending more time outdoors walking to parks, riding bikes and scooters and playing with friends. While summer is a season of fun, it also brings increased risks on our roads. More children...
Why Preserving Evidence After a Motor Vehicle Crash Matters More Than You Think
Recently, I spoke with a crash survivor who said something that has stayed with me: "I wish someone had told me what to keep after my crash." Those words reminded me just how overwhelming the days following a motor vehicle crash can be. When you find yourself...
Helping Children Cope When a Parent Is Hospitalized After a Motor Vehicle Crash
A motor vehicle crash can change a family’s life in an instant. When a parent is seriously injured and hospitalized, children are often left facing a confusing and frightening situation they may not fully understand. At the Crash Support Network, we often hear from...
What Every Driver Should Know About Turtles Crossing
At the Crash Support Network, our mission is to raise awareness about the impact of motor vehicle crashes, to promote road safety and encourage safer choices behind the wheel. While much of our work focuses on supporting people affected by crashes, road safety also...
The Things Crash Survivors Think About That Most Drivers Never Do
and For many people, driving is simply part of daily life. It is routine. Familiar. Automatic. We buckle our seatbelts, start the engine, and head off to work, school, appointments, or family gatherings without giving much thought to the journey itself. For crash...
Brain Injury Awareness Month: Understanding, Support, and the Road to Recovery
This is a time to bring attention to one of the most life-altering yet often invisible consequences of a motor vehicle crash. For many crash survivors, the injury is not always obvious at first. There may be no casts, no visible wounds, and no immediate signs to...
