If you're involved in a car accident in which there are injured parties, are you obliged to call the emergency service and provide the necessary assistance to the victims?

In the photo, you can see a dark car whose front has hit a tree by the street: the bonnet is crushed, the bumper is torn off, and there is debris all around. If there are injured people in such an accident, everyone involved in it must call the emergency services and give the necessary help to the casualties. The answer is: yes.

The Road Traffic Act requires a driver involved in an accident in which someone has been killed or injured to give the necessary help to the victims of the accident and to call the emergency medical team and the Police, and also to stay at the scene. Necessary help means calling for help on 112, securing the scene, stopping heavy bleeding or talking to the casualty until the ambulance arrives; an unconscious person who is not breathing must be given CPR. Failing to help a person in danger is a crime, and you can always rely on instructions from the dispatcher over the phone.

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