What to do after a car accident in Alberta

Notify your own insurer promptly — policies typically require prompt notice. For treatment funding, notice of claim should be submitted within 10 days of the collision using an AB-1 form.

Police reporting is required where anyone is injured or damage exceeds the current provincial threshold. Reporting thresholds change, so confirm the current figure with police or your insurer rather than relying on an older number.

It is worth being assessed. Whiplash symptoms frequently appear 24 to 72 hours later, and an early assessment both catches them and documents your condition for the claim.

Within the first ten days if you can, because that is the assessment window the Alberta protocols set. If you are past that, book anyway; treatment is still funded, and the front desk at (825) 525-2852 will explain what changes.

Yes. Symptoms from a collision often appear over the following days, and an early assessment gives a baseline. If nothing is wrong, you have lost forty-five minutes; if something is, you have caught it early.

Yes. Section B benefits, which fund treatment, come from your own policy. Report the collision to your insurer promptly regardless of fault.