Condition and visibility notes can preserve context, but they do not establish what caused a crash, responsibility, or a claim outcome.

Describe the conditions without assigning blame

  • Date, approximate time, route, intersection or landmark, direction of travel, lighting, weather, surface, traffic control, and visibility observations
  • Construction, lane changes, parked vehicles, vegetation, equipment, roadway markings, photographs, video, and the source of each detail
  • Conditions personally observed separated from an agency record, another person’s statement, or an estimate
  • A condition that changed before it could be documented left as unknown rather than recreated from memory

Use broader safety data carefully

The North Carolina Department of Transportation’s Safety Data Maps provide broader roadway-safety information. A map can provide context for a location, but it does not determine what happened in an individual event.

Questions about a North Carolina motorcycle-accident claim require a fact-specific review.

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