Good point; perhaps that is one reason why these EAS forms have never really been used in the UK. Nevertheless, I think that they are better than nothing if a UK motorist is involved in an accident with a foreign vehicle in Britain. Also they would be of use in the 90+% of accidents where both motorists can understand English.

I used an EAS on the two occasions my (Spanish) company car was rammed into, once while stationary at a junction and once in a parking space. It's a pretty good albeit crude system - each driver fills in his version with diagrams if appropriate and signs his own version of events. (There's space for one version on the left and one on the right and the whole form is in triplicate).
Each party submits to his own insurance company a copy of the two versions; in other words both insurance companies receive the two (usually differing) versions on the same page and try to sort it out between themselves.
An EAS is certainly better than nothing, but nowadays I imagine it would always be accompanied by several MBs of digital photographs from smartphones. I find it very frustrating not to be able to use a dashcam in Spain - utterly illegal owing to Data Protection issues. There is no automatic, inalienable right to film a person in a public place (or even his car number plate) as there is in Britain.

Edited by Bilboman on 18/09/2016 at 21:10