Are yo obliged to stay at the scene of the accident in this situation?

An accident has happened in front of you: a car has hit a pedestrian, who is lying on the roadway. You are at the scene and you see an injured person. As a witness you must stop, call for help and stay with the injured person until the emergency services take care of him - otherwise you may be held responsible for failing to help.

The Road Traffic Act requires the driver involved in an accident with an injured person, and other people involved in it, to give the necessary help, to call the emergency medical team and the police, and to stay at the scene of the accident (if calling for help requires them to go away, they must come back without delay). You, as a witness, are bound by the State Emergency Medical Services Act, which requires you to inform the services without delay, and by the Criminal Code, which punishes anyone who does not help a person in direct danger of losing their life or suffering serious harm to health, even though they could have done it safely. Driving away from the scene when an injured person is lying on the roadway means abandoning a person in need.

Legal basis: Art. 44 para. 2 point 1 and 3 and para. 3 of the Road Traffic Act (Prawo o ruchu drogowym); Art. 162 § 1 of the Criminal Code; Art. 4 of the State Emergency Medical Services Act