Accident is A traffic accident

2024 Author: Erin Ralphs | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-02-19 11:42

Accident is an event that happened on the road while the vehicle (vehicle) was moving and with its participation. As a result, people were injured, vehicles, structures, cargo were damaged, or other material damage was caused.

On May 30, 1896, the first accident happened. It was in New York. Then an electric car and a bicycle collided, because of which a person was injured in the lower limb.

And what is happening on the road today and how the rules regulate incidents, we learn from the article.

The car is a means of increased danger

The TS itself is dangerous. Therefore, drivers should be aware of this and be especially careful. However, in reality, unfortunately, there are cases when people get behind the wheel in a drunken state. Moreover, statistics have shown that even those drivers who listen to music while driving are moretend to exceed the speed limit and, as a result, get into an accident more often. This is due to reduced attention to traffic conditions.

Other violations of the rules that increase the risk of getting into an accident are:

• talking on the phone;
• ignoring seat belts;
• operation of a faulty vehicle;
• excessive driver fatigue;
• smoking;
• food;
• adjustment of electronic devices.

Getting into an accident is not a basis for legal liability. But when it occurs or because of it, the law is violated. In accordance with its norms, administrative or criminal liability comes.

Road users

This category includes persons who took part in the movement. This is the driver, passenger, pedestrian.

Drivers include not only persons driving any vehicle, but also drivers of herds, riding animals, which they lead along the road. It is also a person who is just learning to drive.

Pedestrians include persons who have not been inside the vehicle and have not worked on the road. In addition to people walking along the street, they are cyclists, people with disabilities in wheelchairs without a motor, people carrying sleds, strollers. People working on the road are not considered pedestrians. For them, security measures must be taken.

Unfortunately, people suffer when accidents happen. Road accidents can occur with or without casu alties. The person who died iswho died as a result of an accident on the spot or within seven days after. A wounded person is a person who has received bodily injuries, as a result of which hospitalization for a period of at least a day was required.

Let's highlight the main distinguishing features of car accidents that occurred:

• it always happens with people;
• happening on the road;
• there are negative consequences.

Classification

Accidents can be of different types. Consider the main ones.

1. In a collision, vehicles collide with each other, a moving train or other train on the railway. Collisions are lateral, passing and oncoming.
2. When a vehicle rolls over, it's called a rollover. It can occur as a result of bad weather, vehicle malfunction, improper securing and placement of cargo, or due to a violation of the rules.
3. Another type of car accident that occurs is hitting an obstacle. This causes the vehicle to hit or run over a static object.
4. Pedestrian collisions can happen both on the road and on the side of the road.
5. A collision with a cyclist occurs when the latter is moving.
6. A hit on an animal is considered perfect when the vehicle hit it or when the animal itself hit the car and people were injured or property damage was caused.
7. Crashing into a horse-drawn vehicle when the animals were also moving in a harness or hit the vehicle themselves.
8. Some accidents are accidents in whichthe passenger fell from a moving vehicle - have their own characteristics. They qualify as a passenger fall if other options for distinguishing between incidents do not apply to this case.
9. There is an item in the rules “other types of accidents”. These are incidents that cannot be attributed to the previous types, but at the same time have all the signs of a traffic accident.

Affecting factors

The main factors that occur in an accident are the following:

1. Dynamic shock resulting from an extremely sudden stop of the vehicle.
2. Injury from debris or machine parts.
3. Prolonged squeezing due to being pinched by parts of the vehicle.
4. Exposure to temperature and gases in a fire or certain groups of substances involving vehicles carrying dangerous goods.

Subjective and objective nature of causes

The causes of traffic accidents are divided into subjective and objective.

The first ones happen due to violations of traffic rules and safety rules and the use of vehicles.

Objective include:

• poorly planned roadways;
• lack of lighting;
• Unsatisfactory condition of the road surface.

If a driver understands the causes of traffic accidents, their conditions, makes an analysis, he becomes more law-abiding. The most effective prevention mechanisms are not theoretical lessons, but analysis of real accidents.

Drivermay be overtired and fall asleep at the wheel. On the other hand, his inexperience and so on may affect. Among vehicle malfunctions, inoperative brakes, steering wheel, headlights and others most often lead to accidents.

Traffic

Violation of traffic rules is the main reason that leads to accidents. Any driver should know what traffic is. This is a very complex system of a socio-technical nature, which involves both drivers driving their vehicles and pedestrians. For some categories, additional precautions apply, for example, if dangerous goods are being transported. But no additional documents should contradict traffic rules.

At the same time, it is important to understand that traffic is not limited to the roads that cars drive on. An accident will be qualified as such if it happened both in the yard and in a closed area, in a parking lot and even in a field.

Because of what accidents happen

Statistics says the following:

• Most accidents are caused by drunk driving (25%).
• 17% of accidents happen due to exceeding the speed limit.
• Up to 9% of accidents occur due to incorrect rebuilding, as well as maneuvering, U-turns or turns.
• 15% of accidents happen as a result of violation of the established overtaking rules.

In addition, there are often cases when a safe distance between vehicles is not observed, the order of passage is made, sudden braking is done, no signal is given beforerebuilding or other maneuvering and so on.

Registration of traffic accidents

If the accident had serious consequences, then a task force, a criminal investigator, experts and doctors leave for the scene. In case of an accident without casu alties, one traffic police officer is enough.

One way or another, the inspector draws up primary documentation, where all the circumstances of the incident should be recorded. Therefore, the participants, including the culprit of the accident, as well as eyewitnesses, provide assistance in this case.

Primary documents include the following:

• accident scheme;
• explanations of participants;
• help;
• site inspection protocol;
• Vehicle condition protocol;
• sobriety protocol;
• document fixing material evidence.

If the incident did not cause any injuries and deaths, and the damage is not more than 500 minimum wages, administrative liability arises. Otherwise, a criminal case is initiated, and the perpetrator will be held accountable for the criminal act. Although, even if the case is referred to criminal proceedings, the parties can agree, and the injured party has the right to petition for the termination of the UD. Despite the fact that only the court assigns compensation to the victims, the perpetrator can voluntarily compensate for the damage caused.

For an investigation, and also if an autotechnical examination (or an independent examination of an accident) is being carried out, a complete package of the following documents is required:

• all primary documents listed above;
• protocol for sobriety control using a tube or other technical means;
• decision of the investigator or court ruling;
• objects for research;
• when conducting - the protocol of the investigative experiment;
• meteorological service help;
• road profile reference;
• information about traffic lights;
• records of interrogation of witnesses.

It is best if the participants in the incident personally write explanations after they recover from the shock. Although witnesses may do so.

After an accident, the insurance company will decide on payments and compensation.

Conclusion

Accidents sometimes occur regardless of one or another road user. However, most of them can be avoided. Indeed, if all drivers are aware of the increased danger of vehicles on the road and follow all the rules, many accidents with human casu alties will not happen.