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The home scene list all the accidents that you have entered.  You can enter as many accidents as you need.

Tap on the accident to edit or view the details.  You may also swipe the entry and tap on OK to delete all the accident details. This action can not be undone so use with caution.

To start entering new information tap the add button at the lower left corner.

The app menu has some additional items aside from the default of Edit, preferences, and help.  

My Data is where you can enter default information about vehicles, drivers, and insurance.  These items can be selected and imported into accident information later.

Suggestion opens a new email to DigiKat Support where you can make feature request or report issues.

What to Do? contains a short introduction and some tips on what to do after you have a vehicle accident.

Preference modifies some of DigiAccident’s behaviors such as turning on/off GPS.

If you tap on My Data from the app menu from anywhere you will see this list.   The list is information you have inputted on common people, vehicles or insurance that you might be reporting on.  This is simply a way to enter information quickly.

If you open this scene from the accident details scene the add button at the lower left will not be available.   During the accident details, the list is meant to select the data you wish to import.

Any other time, tapping on an item will open the details so that you can change the information.

You can add as many entries as you need.  This is useful if you have multiple vehicles or drivers.   If you have multiple drivers and one vehicle you can enter the multiple people and store the vehicle information on only one of the entries.

When you import the information into an accident you can just delete the extra information that doesn’t apply.

To delete an entry, swipe the item to the side and tap delete to confirm.

When tapping on an entry to edit, the entry contains all the information also needed on the accident report.   This includes things such as the name, date of birth, address, phone number, and driver’s license.

You can tap on the contact button to import information from your device’s address book.

There are additional sections for vehicle and insurance.  The insurance section also has a contact button to import the information from your address book.

Tap on the save button at the lower left to commit the changes you have made.

None of the fields are required on this scene and you can enter a little or as much information as you want.  We would suggest that you fill out all the information.

The preference scene allows you to modify some of the behaviors of the application.  

The Use GPS option enables/disables GPS information on an accident.  When you first create a new accident the GPS information is retrieved to mark your location at the time.

“Check for Update” will log into the cloud each time you start DigiAccident to see if there is a new version available.  

Finally, the email address is used to communicate with the cloud.  This is only needed to check for updates or to print a report.  (Covered later)

Tap on the save icon in the lower left to commit your changes.

The accident page is where you will enter most of the information about the incident.  The screen shot shown is of the edit screen.  The only difference on the screen between edit and add is the delete button (center) is not shown on the add.

This starts with the date/time of the event.   The location, latitude, and longitude are retrieved from GPS.  If GPS is disabled, then the latitude and longitude are hidden but you can still enter the location manually.  Tapping on the latitude or longitude will open the map application centered on the location. 

You can get new GPS information at anytime by tapping the sattelite icon in the lower right of the screen.

Below the general information is the police, vehicles, people, narrative, and pictures.  

The police sections is for information about the responding department and the officer who worked the scene.  You can only enter one police department.

The vehicles, people, narrative, and image sections can have as many entries as you need.  These sections show a list when the divider is expanded.  To delete an item from a section just swipe the entry to the side and tap delete to erase it.

When editing an existing accident entry the send button will be at the top left of the screen.  Tapping this button sends the accident information to the cloud.   The information is secure and encrypted while in the cloud.  Then you can visit http://www.digikatsoftware.com/subscribe/home.aspx and print the accident information for $4.99 per report.  Click Here to view an example of the report.

Remember, none of the information you enter is saved until you tap on the save icon on the lower right of the screen.  For each accident, you must enter the description of the event, one person, and one vehicle.

The vehicle information has things such as tag number, tag state, year, make and model of the vehicle involved.

The check box labeled air bag is an indicator if the airbag(s) of the vehicle were deployed in the collision.

At the bottom of this scene, you can enter the insurance information.  You can also tap the contacts button to import information from your device’s address book.

You can enter as many vehicles as you need.

The people are anyone involved in the accident. You can enter as many as you need.

When adding a person you can tap on the contacts button to import data from your device’s address book.

Each person can have a vehicle associated with them.  So it would be best to enter the vehicle information first.  However, you can always associate a person with a vehicle later.

The “type” is the person’s role in the accident.  Adjuster, driver, passender, pedestrian, other, wrecker, or witness.

This scene includes information such as name, date of birth, address, phone number, and license.

The check box at the bottom is an indicator if the person was injuryed in the accident.

The narrative is just a description provided by a person.  You must associate a person with each narrative.  

The narrative should include details of the accident from the perspective of the person associated with it.  Remember, the more details you have the better off you will be later.

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