If you meet with an accident in a Rented Car in Thailand…

1. You Keep Calm and stay at your place. Your car is insured and so are you.
2. Coming to our experience, the other guy who hit our car was really helpful. He called the Police, his insurance and our insurance. Stay Polite, per our experience, Thais are real nice people.
3. Within 15 mins, traffic police arrived at the sight and started asking questions about what happened to the other driver. Knowing that we do not know the language, the guy did not bother us at all with the formalities.
4. Next came our insurance guy, ensuring not just our well being with pleasantries, but also telling us that Budget normally does not charge its customers for accidents unless the police report clearly says that it was completely customer’s fault. He gave us an Incident Reporting letter to be submitted at the return counter.
5. Next came the other party’s insurance and clicked pictures.
6. Post this, we were allowed to go to Krabi Airport to submit the car.
7. At the Airport, they did a thorough inspection of the car before making a final return. Not a penny was cut from the security money that they took as advance.

Though we were standing in the middle of the highway in the scorching sun all through this process, we were quite convinced with the whole handling of the situation by Budget and local Police. Just make sure you don’t have any traffic violations on record, and you should be fine with your entire road trip.