If you are involved in an accident, in which people are killed or injured, are you allowed to start removing its effects - clean, prepare the tram for towing etc.?
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Correct answer
NO
Explanation
The question is about the duties of a tram driver involved in a road accident. If you are involved in an accident in which people are killed or injured, you are not allowed to remove its effects on your own - to clean up or to prepare the tram for towing - the answer is NO.
If someone is killed or injured in an accident, the driver must not do anything that could make it harder to establish how the accident happened. Cleaning up parts, moving objects or preparing the tram for towing would change the traces on which the police and experts base their reconstruction of the event. Your tasks are: making the scene safe, giving help to the casualties, calling the emergency medical team and the police, and staying at the scene. Removing the effects of the accident starts only after the police have finished their work.
Legal basis: Art. 44 para. 2 point 1-3 of the Road Traffic Act (Prawo o ruchu drogowym)