If you're involved in a car accident, are you obliged to provide your personal details at the request of the second party involved in the same accident?
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Correct answer
YES
Explanation
In the photo, you can see a head-on collision of two cars in a city street, a purple one and a dark one, with police cars, an ambulance and a police officer directing traffic around them. Regardless of whether anyone has been injured, every person involved in an accident must give their personal details at the request of another person involved - this is the basis for filling in an accident statement and claiming compensation. The answer is: yes.
The Road Traffic Act requires a driver involved in an accident, at the request of a person involved in the accident, to give their personal details, the personal details of the owner or keeper of the vehicle, and details of the insurance company with which the compulsory third-party liability insurance (OC) contract has been concluded. Refusing to give your details is a petty offence, and when people have been injured, it may be treated as making it difficult to establish how the accident happened. So keep the vehicle registration certificate and the number of your OC policy in the car, and write down or photograph the other party's details.
Legal basis: Art. 44 para. 1 point 4 of the Road Traffic Act (Prawo o ruchu drogowym)