Procedure in case of accidents on vehicles

Not every driver knows what to do in the event of an accident on the road. However, following the established procedure is a necessity. This allows you to avoid errors in the protocol and the occurrence of controversial situations in the future. The basics include the rules for preparing documentation, determining the position of vehicles after a collision, turning on emergency signals and installing signs. When there are no victims, the traffic police does not go to the scene and in this situation it is extremely important to know how to register an accident without them.

Procedure in case of an accident

The first action in case of an accident is to completely stop the car to visually assess the nature and extent of the damage. After this, the emergency alarm is turned on and a special sign is installed at a distance of 15 m. If there are victims, then first of all you need to call an ambulance, and then notify the traffic police about the incident. What is important to consider:

1. Record all circumstances on video or photos before law enforcement arrives.
2. Do not leave the scene of the accident and do not move the vehicle.
3. Notification of the insurance company. This can be done by calling the phone number indicated on the policy form.
4. Search for witnesses. Determine their number, write down the phone number, personal contacts, addresses, take a brief written testimony.
5. Copy and save DVR recordings.

After registering an accident, the traffic police officer must read the text of the protocol presented and sign the document, but only if there are no contradictions. You should pay attention to the traces of the accident, especially if the incident occurred in bad weather (snow, mud, fog).

Important! An emergency sign should be installed before the traffic police arrives, otherwise the driver will face a fine of 1,000 rubles.

In case of a possible accident

Even strict adherence to all traffic rules and extensive accident-free driving experience cannot guarantee you that you will never get into an accident. The most important thing is to correctly navigate the situation. You should not take actions that could worsen your situation. For example, leaving the scene of an accident or entering into conflict with other participants in the accident.

Behavior in the event of a car accident includes the following actions, which are recommended to be followed:

• If you become involved in a traffic accident, stop the car.
• Mark your stopping place with a sign or turn on your hazard lights.
• Remember that a person who willfully leaves the scene of an accident is automatically considered guilty.
• If there are victims, call medical assistance.
• Try to provide first aid if someone needs it, using a car first aid kit.
• Contrary to popular belief, you should not touch a seriously injured person. Do not try to take him to the hospital in your car. It is better to wait for help on the spot.
• Record in video or photo the position of the cars, as well as the damage they received.
• Write down the names and contact information of possible witnesses.
• If there are casualties or more than 2 cars are involved in an accident, calling the traffic police service is mandatory.
• Don't forget to contact your insurance company.
• Before the traffic police arrive, do not touch anything at the scene of the accident. Do not remove glass or flying parts of the car, do not change their location.
• If you are offered to take an alcohol test, do not refuse. If you are not at fault for the accident, then a medical examination will only confirm that you are right.
• If you do not agree with the actions of the traffic police officers, then you have the right to add your comments to the protocol. Ask for 2 copies on the spot. You can go to court with it. As a last resort, when signing the protocol, you can take a photo of it.

Despite the fact that the situation of an accident is extremely unpleasant and the procedure for registering it can take a long time, control your emotions. Your aggression or excessive emotionality can later be used against you.

Registration of an accident involving a traffic police officer

Actions in case of an accident under compulsory motor liability insurance in 2021 depend on whether there are victims. If one of the parties received life-threatening or even mild injuries, a traffic police officer must be called. What to do in this case:

• Stop driving completely, leave the vehicle and assess the scale of the accident.
• Determine the presence of victims and the need for first aid. Call an ambulance immediately.
• Deliver the victim to the hospital if the ambulance team is delayed or cannot get to the place due to a traffic jam.
• Leave the other party or eyewitnesses of the accident, who will wait for the arrival of traffic police inspectors, with your personal information. Explain the circumstances of leaving the scene of the accident. As a valid reason, this may be the threat of termination of pregnancy, the need to take the person to the emergency room (a severed limb or finger). Go back.
• Draw up a diagram and give explanations to the police. Sign the protocol.

If there is no need to leave the scene of the accident, then the position of the vehicle after the impact should be recorded.
For this purpose, ordinary mobile phones, video recorders, and cameras are often used. It is worth paying attention to all the key details that confirm or refute guilt. It is important to know what documents are provided to the driver after the incident is registered. The duty of police officers is to issue a copy of the protocol, which describes all recorded events. If there are disagreements, then you should not sign it. You should ask to correct any inaccuracies or provide additional information.

How to file a traffic accident?

If the following conditions are met, then the accident can be registered using a European protocol:

• damage in the accident was caused only to vehicles and there were two of these vehicles,
• both drivers agree with the circumstances of the accident and the list of visible damage to the cars,
• there were no injuries or fatalities in the incident,
• The liability of both drivers is insured under MTPL (there are valid MTPL policies).

To do this, it is necessary to fill out the notice together, with each driver signing both sheets of the notice on the front side. Each of the participants in the accident fills out the back side themselves.

If at least one of the above conditions is not met, if there are victims or damage to other property is caused, then traffic police officers must handle the registration of the accident. They record all the circumstances and issue documents with which the victim will go to the insurance company.

Sometimes so-called emergency commissioners arrive at road accidents. These are not traffic police officers and they do not have the right to register an accident, but there is apparently some kind of agreement between the traffic police officers and these commissioners, so the latter record the circumstances and then transfer the materials to the traffic police.

You can entrust the registration to emergency commissioners only at your own peril and risk... If, when registering an accident, they indicate something or do something incorrectly, there will be no one to ask.

Likewise, if they lose or do not transfer the material to the traffic police, then registering the accident again will be extremely problematic, sometimes even impossible. Sometimes commissioners are not shy about demanding money for their work, so decide for yourself in advance whether, in the event of an accident, you will trust them or insist on the arrival of police officers.

Independent registration of an accident (Euro protocol)

New rules for registering road accidents in 2021 allow you not to call the police if there are no fatalities. In this case, the parties, by mutual agreement, fill out the European protocol independently. This is a special notice provided for under MTPL insurance. A prerequisite for its use is minor damage that was caused to the other party and the presence of no more than 2 participants. If there are no injuries in an accident, in 2021 the driver’s procedure is as follows:

• Full stop after a collision, inspection of the scene.
• Record what happened in a photo or video: you can use a mobile phone camera for this.
• Fill out a notification of the incident yourself, sequentially entering all the data.
• Note the damage caused and the absence of the need to call the police, in the form of the agreement of the parties to compensate for the damage.

After all the actions, the vehicle can be removed from the road, which avoids creating traffic jams due to minor collisions in which there are no casualties. If the original form is not available, you will have to fill out the protocol according to the European standard in two copies.

If there are victims in an accident

The procedure for accidents in which there are casualties will be completely different. In this situation, issuing a European protocol is unacceptable, and the police must be called. It is strictly forbidden to leave the place, as this will lead to harsher punishment. What should participants in such an accident do:

• Stop the vehicle and turn on the hazard lights.
• Get out of the car and find out if there are any injured passengers or the other driver.
• Do not change the position of objects related to the accident.
• Do not try to hide from the place or drive off to the side of the road until the moment of photographic recording.
• Call an ambulance and try to provide first aid.
• Notify the State Traffic Inspectorate that there has been a collision with a pedestrian.

Upon arrival at the scene of the accident, police officers record information about all participants in the incident and first identify the culprit. It is not always the one who crashed, since there are non-contact accidents when another car cut off at a gate or intersection. Inspectors are also looking for eyewitnesses, interviewing them, and collecting contacts.

Rules of conduct in case of an accident involving a pedestrian

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The number of cars is increasing every day; on the one hand, a vehicle is a means of transportation, and on the other hand, it is a source of increased danger and can cause irreparable harm to the health and life of a person and his property. Even if you are a law-abiding driver, you were probably in a hurry to go to a business meeting, thereby exceeding the speed limit, were distracted by a passenger and did not notice a pedestrian who wanted to cross the road, but what if one day this leads to an accident with your participation? What if you cause harm to the health and life of a pedestrian?

Rules of conduct in case of an accident involving a pedestrian:

1. Stop immediately and do not take measures to change the position of the vehicle.

Leaving the scene of a traffic accident by a driver in which he is a participant entails a fine in the amount of five to twenty-five basic units or deprivation of the right to drive vehicles for a period of up to two years (Part 4 of Article 18.18 of the Administrative Code).

2. Turn on the warning lights and set up a warning triangle.

3. Take measures to provide the necessary assistance to the victim(s), call emergency medical care.

Failure to provide a person in a life-threatening condition with necessary and clearly urgent assistance, if it obviously could have been provided by the perpetrator without danger to his life or health or the life or health of other persons, or failure to inform the appropriate institutions or persons about the need to provide assistance - are punishable by community service, or a fine, or correctional labor for up to one year (Part 1 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code).

If it is impossible to call an ambulance, take the victim to a healthcare organization and provide the following information:

last name;

vehicle registration plate;

4. Write down the names and addresses of other eyewitnesses to the accident.

5. Report the incident to the police (by number 102) and wait for the arrival of traffic police officers.

And remember, following these simple five rules will help you avoid adverse consequences. In particular:

Article 317 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus provides for liability for violation of traffic rules or operation of vehicles by a person driving a vehicle, which negligently resulted in the infliction of less serious bodily injury, or negligently resulted in the death of a person or the infliction of serious bodily injury, or negligently resulted in the death of two or more more persons And the sanction for such a crime ranges from a fine to imprisonment for a period of 10 years.

However, Belarusian legislation allows not only to mitigate the severity of the punishment, but also to avoid it altogether.

The above act entails criminal liability at the request of the victim in the event of causing less serious bodily injury (clause 25, part 1, article 317 of the Criminal Code), therefore, your actions aimed at providing first aid, delivery to a healthcare organization, and any concern for the health of the victim will allow establish relationships with the victim, and as a result, avoid criminal liability.

Numerous accidents involving a pedestrian result in serious bodily injury and death, but the provision of first aid mitigates liability and is always taken into account by the court.

Many years of experience in the field of administrative and criminal law will allow you to provide qualified legal assistance and choose the right course of action!

Car enthusiasts beware!

What not to do in case of an accident

When an accident occurs, many people are afraid of the serious consequences and try to hide. This becomes the reason for drawing up a resolution and bringing the culprit to justice. The court determines the punishment based on the evidence provided, eyewitness testimony and examination. If a person got scared, left, but then immediately returned and notified the traffic police about what happened, the sanction will be more loyal. What else should not be done in the event of an accident:

• Be nervous and try to hide traces or evidence. This often happens when an accident results in the death of one of the participants.
• Attack the culprit and try to injure him.
• Move vehicles, bodies or other objects related to the accident before the arrival of the traffic police or insurance commissioners (if there are no injuries).
• Do not perform the prescribed actions in the event of an accident.

Often mistakes are made by people who have expired compulsory motor insurance or who are responsible for the accident. In such a situation, the punishment may be increased. You should also not sign blank forms of documents or try to resolve the issue “outside the law.”

How can the emergency commissioner help?

If you are not confident in your abilities or cannot complete the paperwork after an accident on your own, you should call a qualified specialist. Insurance commissioners deal with these issues. What are they doing:

1. Inspect the scene of the incident and call an ambulance if necessary.
2. Provide pre-medical and technical assistance.
3. They provide assistance to police officers, objectively record what happened, take photographs of the accident, and record everything on video.
4. They help with paperwork and filing applications with insurance companies.
5. An emergency certificate is drawn up.

Emergency commissioners are a fairly new phenomenon in Russia, and many simply do not know about them. Avarcoms are a kind of assistants who assist motorists in difficult situations without taking either side.

If the culprit escaped

If the culprit flees the scene of the accident, this creates additional danger. The witness or victim must report this fact when calling the police. They, in turn, use all available tools to find the culprit. He faces liability for the accident itself and, in addition, for leaving the scene of the accident, which includes deprivation of his license for up to 1.5 years.

Knowing what to do if you get into an accident, it’s easy not to get confused at the most crucial moment and follow all the procedures prescribed by law. If there are no victims and neither party is injured, then there is no need to call the police. All disputes can be resolved on the spot under the MTPL or CASCO policy by filling out the European protocol yourself. It is a special notice of what happened and involves compensation of no more than 100 thousand rubles.

Algorithm of actions

After determining whose insurance company, the culprit or the victim, pays for damages in an accident, you need to collect documents to receive cash payments. The main stages of the compensation procedure are registration of an emergency, contacting the company where the vehicle license was issued, and conducting an examination.

It is important to know! Compliance with the algorithm of actions will allow you to avoid the case of refusal to provide compensation.

Registration of an accident

To receive compensation, it is necessary to record the fact of the accident. The order of actions of drivers depends on the number of participants in the incident and the availability of an insurance policy. Algorithm for reporting an accident:

1. Call a car inspector. If, in the event of an emergency, one of the drivers does not have a compulsory motor liability insurance policy and other road users are injured, it is necessary to call a traffic police officer.
2. Photo and video recording of the incident. Before the inspector arrives, record the location of the vehicles and related items that characterize the accident.
3. Search for witnesses to the incident. Participants must interview and take contact information of citizens who saw the accident.
4. Exchange of information about the insurer of the parties to the accident. Drivers must give the phone number to the company and write down the OSAGO or CASCO policy number.
5. Receive notification of an incident. A traffic police officer on the spot draws up an accident certificate, a protocol, and a resolution on the assignment of administrative liability.

If only material damage is caused, both drivers have a compulsory motor liability insurance policy, and the conflict is mutually resolved, it is permissible to record the traffic situation without calling an inspector. Participants have the right to independently fill out the Europrotocol with a description of the accident. After signing the document, the injured party must contact its own company within 5 days.

Contacting the insurance company

After the incident, the driver is required to call the company and report the situation. The injured citizen must recover damages in case of an accident under the policy within a certain time. If the accident was registered by a traffic police inspector, the driver has the right to contact the insurer for 3 years. It is recommended to submit documents within 15 days for quick payment.

Expertise

After an accident, a company employee evaluates the condition of the car to determine compensation. The owner of the vehicle can conduct an independent examination at his own expense.

Attention! When inspected by someone other than the insurer, the owner is obliged to notify the company and the culprit of the incident in writing about the decision made, if the amount of damage exceeds 120 thousand rubles.