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One 08-09-2010 01:33 PM

definition: accident/incident/preventable
 
I forget what the criteria are for an accident according to the dot and dac, does a vehicle have to be disabled and towed for an incident to beconcidered an accident. When can an employer list an event as an accident on your dac, when is it a preventable? What would a scratch be?? what if it was not your fault??
'preciate it guys.

One

chris1 08-09-2010 01:38 PM

DOT reportable is fatality,injury,or tow.

Jackrabbit379 08-09-2010 07:03 PM

I believe the only time an accident is not preventable is when you hit an animal. Any other accident is preventable, whether you are at fault, or the other person is at fault.

Roadhog 08-09-2010 08:55 PM

Accidents due to bad weather conditions... is a gray area. :D

With most drivers... just being born is a preventable accident.
Back when I was born, ... by today's regulations... I'd be a disqualifying offense. :p

Jackrabbit379 08-10-2010 04:13 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Roadhog (Post 484792)
Accidents due to bad weather conditions... is a gray area. :D

I've kinda wondered about that myself..
What if....
Ya know, like if you run off the road in ice or something.

"Mr Jackrabbit.. You came around this curve,
and you went threw the barb wire fence right there.
Could this accident been unpreventable?"


"Of course it could have been!
If yall woulda had enough sense to keep me at home,
out of this ice n snow,
this dag gum wreck wouldnta happened."

RostyC 08-10-2010 04:25 PM

I was an accident............:eek1:

Jackrabbit was an incident............ :tears:


Roadhog was a preventable............ :cry:


:lol:

One 08-11-2010 12:08 AM

Hi Roadhog been a long time, remember me? :P

I was wondering what a company can actually put on a dac and what they can list as an accident....?
I guess a cracked windshield is a preventable too, lol!

Malaki86 08-11-2010 12:14 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by One (Post 484826)
Hi Roadhog been a long time, remember me? :P

I was wondering what a company can actually put on a dac and what they can list as an accident....?
I guess a cracked windshield is a preventable too, lol!

Yup - you should have the ability to dodge hailstones the size of golfballs while they're falling out of the sky. And to think you call yourself a driver...

One 08-11-2010 12:16 AM

Hi Roadhog been a long time, remember me? :P

I was wondering what a company can actually put on a dac and what they can list as an accident....?
I guess a cracked windshield is a preventable too, lol!

Fredog 08-12-2010 12:16 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Roadhog (Post 484792)
Accidents due to bad weather conditions... is a gray area. :D

With most drivers... just being born is a preventable accident.
Back when I was born, ... by today's regulations... I'd be a disqualifying offense. :p


That's why I believe in retroactive abortion:hellno:


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